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IN SYMPATHY It’s not often one thinks about sustainability when it comes to burial sites, but for mae, a young architectural practice based in north London, this was a component of its brief for the Wilbury Hills Cemetery on the edge of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire. Click here to read more

HIGHCROSS Glenn Howells Architects were appointed for the design of four residential blocks which comprise 120, 1 and 2 bedroom apartments with retail units below. Click here to read more

NO PLACE LIKE HOME A pilot housing and community scheme in Dublin, it comprises a 50-bedroom centre providing accommodation and training for 18- to 25-year olds in need of a home. They are what the building’s designer Angela Brady of Brady Mallalieu Architects calls the “hidden homeless” – school-leavers, youngsters who can’t afford their own home and the untrained. Their stay in the centre will be anything from one to a maximum of three years. Being in a sheltered environment while they learn new skills or become better educated is aimed at giving them a good start in life. Click here to read more

HIGH CULTURE The building that is now the Louise T Blouin Institute was originally used by Hooper’s, the coachbuilder to Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Daimler. Click here to read more

OLYMPIC SUBSTATION The building is not designed as an event in its own right but as part of a number of buildings that form the fabric of the Olympic site itself, having permanency, weight and dignity. Click here to read more

CHURCH OF OUR LADY & ST VINCENT AND PARISH CENTRE The merging of two parishes in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, presented the community with the opportunity to build a new church and parish centre. Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese Trust appointed Francis Weal and Partners as architect in March 2003 but the design was developed with Father Timothy O’Connor and the church building committee. Click here to read more

NEW MUSIC SCHOOL Latymer Upper School is a co-educational Independent School, based in Hammersmith. The majority of its teaching space is located on a site which fronts King Street, although the Prep School faces Upper Mall overlooking the Thames. Click here to read more

A LEARNING CURVE “A fitting landmark for the millennium in the heart of Norwich” was what the brief demanded. Hopkins Architects has achieved this with a dynamic building that has become very popular with the locals in a short space of time. Click here to read more

A CAMBRIDGE EDUCATION Allies and Morrison is the latest architect to interpret and continue Sir Denys Lasdun’s original 1958 master plan for Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. The £8.2m contract completed in 2004 has added two new buildings – a gatehouse and an auditorium – that join a line up of work by Lasdun himself, MacCormack Jamieson Prichard, and van Heynigan and Haward. Click here to read more

DANCE CITY ‘Thermal mass’ as a term may have become over-used lately, but it is one reason why Dance City in Newcastle, completed in December 2005, is such a significant development. Click here to read more