Ellie Duffy

Declining a developer’s offer to buy its 1960s former office block in Deptford and move into a new build scheme nearby, arts incubator Cockpit instead commissioned Cooke Fawcett Architects to perform a delicate, light-touch makeover. Ellie Duffy reports back

Witherford Watson Mann has performed an intelligent and farsighted human-scaled retrofit at Clare College, writes Ellie Duffy. Photography by Philip Vile and Philipp Ebeling

The courtyard development employs reuse and retrofit alongside new build to realise creative office spaces for the post-Covid era

Ellie Duffy visits Kent School of Architecture and Planning’s degree show and finds that there are many different ways of being an architect

Gort Scott has designed two new buildings for St Hilda’s, Oxford, with the Anniversary Building’s orthogonal turret helping it compete with the dreaming spires of the city’s older colleges

In Southampton AL_A has created an uplifting, other-worldly new Maggie’s Centre featuring innovative loadbearing ceramic spine walls, writes Ellie Duffy

Walters and Cohen Architects has added a major new energy-efficient building to St Paul’s School that supports the school’s vision for learning, discussion and interaction to happen both inside and outside the classroom. Photography by Dennis Gilbert

Adam Richards Architects has created a robust but contextual learning centre on the grounds of Walmer Castle on the Kent coast. Photography by Brotherton-Lock

Screened from the street by a graffiti-strewn boundary wall, the courtyard house has charmed its Bristol neighbours, writes Ellie Duffy. Photography Anthony Coleman

The practice has transformed an 18th-century steam cotton mill in Manchester, writes Ellie Duffy. Photography Daniel Hopkinson