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Case study: Ravelin Sports Centre by FaulknerBrowns Architects
The ultra-low-energy building provides facilities for both the University of Portsmouth and the wider city. Photography by Hufton + Crow, Richard Chivers
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Case study: School Green Centre by AOC Architecture
AOC has completed a community centre on the outskirts of Reading combining a library, crèche, after-school club and venue. Photography by Philip Vile
Case study: Wembury Mews by Russell Jones
The architect has completed a home and studio in Highgate, north London, comprising a series of interlocking orthogonal volumes arranged over four separated levels. Photography by Rory Gardiner
Case study: Alfreton Park SEN School by Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture
The new-build all-through school, for pupils with special educational needs or disabilities, is set in Derbyshire parkland. Photography by Kilian O’Sullivan
Case study: KOKO by Archer Humphryes Architects
Archer Humphryes has restored the Camden Town music venue, joining three historic, Grade II-listed buildings to provide 16 new spaces. Photography by Taran Wilkhu
Case study: The Fruitmarket Gallery by Reiach and Hall Architects
The Edinburgh gallery’s existing white spaces are augmented by an extension into a neighbouring building that relishes the crudeness of the found spaces. Photography by Broad Daylight
Case study: Freeholders by Mole Architects
The practice’s new house in a flood-prone area on the Norfolk coast aims to be striking while still in keeping with the area. Photography by Nick Guttridge
Case study: The House Recast by Studio Ben Allen
The practice pushed the boundaries of offsite fabrication with this house refurbishment which included a new kitchen and two new bathrooms
Dojima Sake Brewery at Fordham Abbey by SCABAL with KPTA
The berry-red corrugated aluminium barn is the first purpose-built saké brewery in the UK, set in the grounds of an 18th-century manor house in Cambridgeshire. Photography by Ed Tyler and SCABAL
The Egg Shed community centre by Oliver Chapman Architects
By retrofitting a loch-side heritage building and transforming it into a community centre, the practice has revitalised a key public space in the Scottish coastal town of Ardrishaig. Photography by Angus Bremner