The London School of Architecture has announced the launch of its new Part 4 programme, which will start in May 2023 and will consist of a series of innovative, modular courses. In collaboration with subject-specific experts and a wide range…
Artefact has completed a retrofit of a 1980s single-aspect house in London Islington’s Grove Estate, adding a cloister-style extension. Superimposing a new geometry into the rigid context of the ‘nondescript’ single aspect homes on the estate, the architects have extended…
British architect Sir David Chipperfield has been awarded the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his “understated but transformative” work. Becoming the 52nd winner of the award, which is recognised as architecture’s highest honour, Chipperfield is known internationally as a civic…
Marc Thorpe Design has created a conceptual structure of Crystal Lake Pavilion, a floating, timber-built pavilion for the West Catskills region of New York, which functions as a meditation and yoga retreat. Architect and designer Marc Thorpe was inspired by…
Timmins + Whyte has updated a single-fronted Edwardian house in Melbourne, Australia, creating a 10-fold, origami-style roofline, which draws light into the centre of the home. Sitting unassumingly on its street in Abbotsford, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, the house…
Belgian architecture studio Hé! has completed a transformative renovation of an industrial building in Brussels, using bio-based materials to create a flexible four-storey apartment with a studio and co-working space. Situated in the Molenbeek area of Belgium, the building which…
Heirloom Farm Studio by Bushman Dreyfus Architects has been announced as the winner of the 7th Annual Architecture MasterPrize in the Small Architecture category. By scooping this annual global architecture award, Bushman Dreyfus Architects has been recognised for its approach…
A new low-carbon footbridge at London’s Dukes Meadows has been designed by Moxon Architects to rejuvenate a previously disconnected stretch of the Thames Path. The Dukes Meadows Footbridge flows beneath the existing Grade II-listed Barnes Bridge in Chiswick, West London,…
Three contemporary gable extensions of varying scales have been built by Studio McW, completing the first phase of a multi-stage renovation of Follyfield, a large 18th century traditional stone house in Cambridgeshire. This sensitive restoration and revival arose from a…
“I suppose architecture was a natural progression of my passions: I love that you can create something from nothing and in the process, provide shelter, enable a place to be understood and appreciated.” Wendy Perring, founder and design director of PAD…
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Whittaker Parsons has carefully crafted Corner Fold House, an 88 square-metre urban infill property on a vacant garden plot, forming a bookend to an existing terrace in South London. The logistically challenging site is nestled between an electricity substation and…
Emerging practice O’DonnellBrown Architects with White Arkitekter and Ekkist has won the Crichton Project competition, an ambitious £15 million Scottish cultural project which will be built of the earth from which it rises. The winning conceptual design has been unveiled…
To meet the needs of a growing family, Montreal-based firm Ménard Dworkind (MRDK) has reconfigured a 40-year-old house, maximising space by adding a roof extension and floor-to-ceiling windows to avoid expanding the overall footprint. The four-bedroom house, located on Montreal’s…
In a bid to deliver a new future-proof and climate-adaptive neighbourhood, Dutch design office VenhoevenCS has proposed a nature-inclusive apartment complex called ZOË Amsterdam. A brief from the municipality of Amsterdam called for a sustainable, green neighbourhood for the Sluisbuurt…
