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BATH HOUSE, BARKING CENTRAL II The Bath House forms part of the Barking town centre regeneration by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. The overriding design principle for the scheme is to create a vibrant, diverse, high quality environment that introduces and reinforces links to the wider context of Barking Town Centre. The development provides active street edges at ground floor which generate that vibrancy and provide natural security. Click here to read more

ADSHEAD PARK This impressive Lutyens style home is designed to have the feeling of a real family home and provide a welcoming base for family weekends and entertaining guests. Click here to read more

PALLANT HOUSE GALLERY The Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, designed by Long and Kentish in association with Professor Sir Colin St John Wilson, was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Museums and Galleries in May 2007. Click here to read more

SCHOOL OF SLAVONIC STUDIES Short and Associates’ UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies in Bloomsbury is the world’s first application of passive downdraft cooling on a public building in a major city. Click here to read more

THE LOVELACE MAUSOLEUM Early in the 1870s the first Lord Lovelace (William King, eldest son of Peter, 7th Lord King, Baron of Ockham) began considering the construction of a mausoleum for himself and the second Lady Lovelace, following a steady progression of highly decorated Italianate style flint and brick buildings throughout the village. This unique little building (locally and nationally) is a culmination of his structural and decorative ingenuity. Click here to read more

TOXTETH’S TECHNICOLOUR DREAMBOAT “When I think back to the original design brief, I think we wanted a big red box, something visible from a long way away,” recalls Toxteth TV board director Nick Stanley. Well it may not be totally red, but Toxteth TV’s new multicoloured HQ in Liverpool is certainly big, boxy and very, very striking. So much so, it has already scooped both the Best Public Building and Building of the Year categories in the BDA’s 2004 Brick Awards. Click here to read more

BOWZED The BowZed apartment block at Tomlins Grove in east London exploits the benefits of masonry’s thermal mass. Completed in 2004 by Bill Dunster Architects’ ZEDfactory, the four-storey building can store solar heat gains for up to five days in winter. In summer, this time lag means internal temperatures can be up to 10ºC cooler than outside. Click here to read more

NATIONAL TRUST Feilden Clegg Bradley’s striking new £10m central office for the National Trust in Swindon was generated by three principles: to be the most sustainable building possible within the budget; to offer the best possible work environment; and to provide the most appropriate contextual response. Click here to read more

THE SECRET’S OUT If you are into achilleas, salvias, monardas and heleniums, then a visit to the newly refurbished Walled Garden at Scampston Hall will reveal these exotic plants in their full glory. More importantly, it will also provide an opportunity to see a prime example of how brick can form the heart of a contemporary development to help regenerate a historic landscape. Click here to read more

NEW HEAD OFFICE Fitzpatrick Contractors has commissioned a new-build, comfort-cooled, head office of 3,106m2. The building has been designed to act as a showcase for sustainable construction and has achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating. Click here to read more