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Finishing touch: Bennetts Associates’ Bayes Centre for Edinburgh University
The project completes the high-tech research complex the firm began 15 years ago, writes Alan Dunlop. Photography Keith Hunter
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A rich cut through college life: Walters & Cohen at Newnham College Cambridge
The Dorothy Garrod Building combines student accommodation with college facilities while complementing the style of Basil Champneys’ original buildings, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Dennis Gilbert
Misremembrance of things past: 168 Upper Street by Amin Taha
Groupwork + Amin Taha’s retail and residential building for Aria replaces a demolished section of an Islington terrace with a deliberately misremembered concrete reconstruction, writes George Kafka. Photography Tim Soar
Heralding the new stone age: Amin Taha’s 15 Clerkenwell Close
Groupwork + Amin Taha’s controversial stone‑fronted office and residential building at 15 Clerkenwell Close is a serious building that nevertheless displays a lightness of touch, says Rob Wilson. Photography Tim Soar, Jim Stephenson
David Chipperfield and Karakusevic Carson’s duo of residential towers for Hackney
The 16 and 20-storey blocks of private sale apartments are designed to subsidise the construction of 450 affordable homes in the surrounding Colville Estate
Democratic regeneration: Kings Crescent Estate
Residents’ consultation was key to Phases 1 & 2 of Karakusevic Carson and Henley Halebrown’s revamped Kings Crescent Estate, Hackney, winner of the AJ Architecture Awards Editor’s Choice prize, writes Rob Wilson
Stable block aria: Nevill Holt Opera by Witherford Watson Mann
This transformation of a historic stable block into a permanent opera venue in rural Leicestershire confirms the practice’s reputation as master of the art of architectural reuse, writes Ellis Woodman. Photography Hélène Binet
Building study: Takero Shimazaki Architects’ north London house
This partially subterranean north London house has a scale and presence that belies its small footprint, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Anton Gorlenko
Increased exposure: David Kohn Architects’ Photography Centre at the V&A
The galleries borrow from different periods to create a rich landscape of incident and texture, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Will Pryce
Site solutions: Site Gallery, Sheffield by DRDH
A deft reworking of the plot’s layout gives the gallery a large new exhibition space and bold street frontage, writes Rob Wilson. Photography David Grandorge