PROJECT DATA According to the Stirling Prize-winning practice, the 6,152m² scheme for United St Saviour’s Charity is a ‘progressive social model for elderly housing’ and ‘sets a new benchmark for the design of housing for the older generation’. The almshouse will be built on the site of the vacant, post-war…
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Allies and Morrison to overhaul Thamesmead for Peabody
Allies and Morrison Urban Practitioners is to masterplan the future development of the huge 1960s Thamesmead estate in east London
Revealed: proposals by five finalists in Garden Cities contest
The five finalists have been named in the competition to design a ‘visionary and economically viable’ new Garden City in a bid to solve Britain’s growing housing crisis
Foster renews plea for £15bn Thames Estuary hub airport
Norman Foster has revealed more detailed plans for a hub airport in the Thames Estuary more than six months after failing to impress the UK’s airports commission
Churchill College re-examined
As part of Cambridge University Land Society’s recent 50th anniversary, Churchill College held a ‘supercrit’ revisiting Sheppard Robson’s winning scheme and the three finalists in the ground-breaking 1959 design contest
John McAslan completes Museum of Methodism overhaul
John McAslan + Partners has completed the revamp of the Museum of Methodism in the crypt of Wesley’s chapel in London
Nicholas Hare bags Stratford PSBP pilot school job
[First look + plans] Nicholas Hare has been chosen to design Stratford School Academy – the first Priority School Building Project (PSBP) in the capital