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vPPR’s Camden Market Canopy
vPPR Architects has created a playful new venue perched on the elevated former railway goods yard alongside Camden Market’s Grade II*-listed Horse Hospital
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Gilbert & George Centre: a shrine to themselves
SIRS Architects has converted a former brewery off London’s Brick Lane into a three-gallery centre dedicated to the work of the distinctive East End-based artists
Evoking the spirit of White Eagle: James Gorst’s pared-back Hampshire temple
James Gorst Architects has created a striking new temple for the esoteric White Eagle Lodge spiritual organisation, marrying Byzantine forms with sustainable building design
Welcome to Worthing: Bayside by Allies and Morrison
The mixed-use scheme is a striking addition to the seafront, designed to act as a gateway to the West Sussex coastal town
Deeper learning: Hall McKnight transforms disused basement for King’s College London
The Quadrangle project turns a disused double basement at King’s College London on the Strand into a modern engineering department
Let’s get slaughtered: pihlmann architects’ ÅBEN Brewery, Copenhagen
Danish practice pihlmann architects has created an immersive brewery visitor experience in a listed former slaughterhouse in Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District
From ruin to restaurant: Croft 3 by architecture studio fardaa
On the far-flung Isle of Mull, the London-based architect has completed its first rural project, the transformation of a ruined stone byre into a dining hall
Generous is beautiful: Studio Bark’s radical low-impact Para 80 experiment
Nest House, built with Studio Bark’s open-source U-Build timber flatpack system, is small-scale, circular construction which, says Ewa Effiom, throws down a sustainability challenge to architects at large. Photography by Jim Stephenson, Andy Billman and Studio Bark
Timber all the way: The Black & White Building by Waugh Thistleton
When retrofitting a former Shoreditch warehouse proved unviable, The Office Group hired Waugh Thistleton Architects to replace it with what is now central London’s tallest mass timber office structure, the six-storey Black & White Building. How ambitious is its sustainability?
Jonathan Hendry’s Par 3 homes score over major housebuilders’ phoney trad
Jonathan Hendry’s 121-home Par 3 development, built on a disused Lincolnshire golf course, has an admirable richness of incident and spatial complexity