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Wimbledon Girl Guides by Hugh Broughton
The efforts of a branch of the Guides in Wimbledon have paid off with an award-winning building in which Hugh Broughton’s own recommendations for reducing lifespan costs have been applied
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Adding a splash of colour
Media makeovers don’t come much brighter than Hugh Broughton Architects’ refurbishment of Channel 5’s atrium. It is a chameleon space, intimate and colourful at night but cool, white and spacious during the day
Royal proclamation
Matthew Lloyd Architects’ Shoreditch warehouse refurbishment for the Prince’s Foundation reveals the art of the ordinary and declares the school’s agenda with its striking ventilation cowls
Harmeny School, Edinburgh by Richard Murphy Architects
Richard Murphy went back to the classroom to understand the needs of the end users, children with severe emotional and behavioural difficulties, for a school development in Edinburgh
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…