Buildings

Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools

Expressive engineering

building study Sir Owen Williams’ 1930s Daily Express building on Fleet Street has regained its dramatic street elevation with Hurley, Robertson and Associates’ bold mixture of preservation and innovation

Affairs of the art

The Lowry, Michael Wilford’s £105 million centre in Salford Quays, has become a cultural landmark as well as a fitting home for the matchstick men, cats and dogs depicted in L S Lowry’s works

Master of Arts

Glenn Howells Architects has produced a theatre and arts centre which has the heroic qualities of great civic architecture, and knits together the urban fabric of Armagh

Back on track

The Manser Practice and Conran & Partners have transformed the Great Eastern at Liverpool Street station into a modern hotel which retains its Victorian splendour

A star is born

Imagine it’s early evening. Not the humdrum early evening of the average week, all too often swallowed up by the working day. But the beingon-holiday early evening when people begin to gather in the streets. Early evening with a hint of promise.With its new theatre and gallery complex in Milton…