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Krishna-Avanti Primary School, Croydon UK
The Krishna Avanti Primary School is a new build, two-form entry Hindu-faith, primary school in Croydon. The school sits on a narrow strip of land between a busy flyover and the Waldrons Conservation Area, a location which has strongly influenced its design. Funded by the Education and Skills Funding Agency with strict area, design and specifcation limitations, there were few opportunities for detail or ‘façade enhancement’ unless justifed by planning and conservation area requirements. MORE >
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Jubilee Street, Tower Hamlets, London
The second of our three projects by the same architect, Bell Phillips in East London is at Jubilee Street. The design concept was primarily focused on repairing the urban fabric of the local townscape. MORE >
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Chandos Way, Hampstead Reach, London
This development faithfully imitated the locality’s Arts and Crafts architecture through careful brick selection and wonderful detailing. Despite being located in North London, the buildings successfully recreated a peaceful village atmosphere. MORE >
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Ridge Road, Crouch End, London UK
Ridge Road is an imaginative single-storey replacement ground floor side and rear extension to an end of terrace Edwardian property in Crouch End, London. MORE >
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Orwell House, Baroness Road, Tower Hamlets, London
Here, on Baroness Road, Bell Phillips have revitalised a site formerly occupied by an underused car park. 20 new flats are arranged over 6-storeys and introduce a design language complimentary to the Hackney Road conservation area. MORE >
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The Plumstead Centre Extension, London
Commissioned by The Royal Borough of Greenwich, Hawkins Brown’s refurbishment and extension of The Plumstead Centre in south London forms part of a larger High Street regeneration scheme. Formerly an underused Grade II-listed public library, the development now includes a gym, leisure centre, community rooms, café, and new library. MORE >
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The Gables, Liverpool UK
Located on a former factory site in Crosby, Liverpool, The Gables is a development of 30 new-build houses designed by DK-Architects. MORE >
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Kaolin Court, London
Designed by Stolon Studio in association with Baca Architects, Kaolin Court is a £2.8m residential development located on a former light industrial site in London. MORE >
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Burton Borough School, Newport
The Burton Borough School development is a brand-new sports hall for Burton Borough School in Newport, near Telford. Durability, safety and aesthetics needed to work together for the Burton Borough School project.   MORE >
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St. Andrews, Girls’ Hostel Block, Gurugram, Haryana, India
The Girls’ Hostel Block at the St. Andrews Institute of Technology and Management in Gurugram explores the intersection of education and sustainability through the lens of the vernacular. MORE >
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Lea Fields Crematorium, Lincolnshire
Lea Fields Crematorium is situated on a hillside site near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. The project, which is designed by Haverstock, comprises a chapel, crematory, office, staff areas, and ancillary spaces. A generous Porte-Cochère dominates the arrival to the building, providing strong visual orientation for mourners from the car park, as well as shelter for the cortège and congregation MORE >
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The Officers' House, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
The Officers’ House forms part of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’ Royal Arsenal redevelopment project in Woolwich, south London. The brief was to retain the original Officers’ House (Block A) and develop additional housing within a new ‘twin’ structure (Block B) running parallel to it. Connected via an external walkway, the two buildings are part of a new and improved public realm that will mark the main approach to Woolwich Arsenal’s Crossrail station. MORE >
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Brentwood Preparatory School Expansion
Developed within the setting of grade II listed Middleton Hall, Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture’s redevelopment of Brentwood Preparatory School in Essex includes two new buildings: a classroom block housing specialist teaching spaces, changing facilities and a reception, as well as a multi-purpose hall for assembly, dining, sports, music and drama. MORE >
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Code Bothy/Bartlett UCL Research Project Buckinghamshire
Who says clay brick isn’t a modern construction material? Code Bothy is a digitally designed and hand-built brick structure (designed using an Augmented Reality/AR headset) at Grymsdyke Farm in Buckinghamshire. MORE >
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Chamfer House, North West London
Novak Hiles Architects has completed the full renovation and extension of an Edwardian era terrace property in North West London. MORE >
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Wetlands, Walthamstow, London UK
Walthamstow Wetlands is a series of 10 reservoirs, located in the Lea Valley Special Protection Area, which provides drinking water to 3.5 million Londoners. An area of Special Scientific Interest, the 211-hectare site has been transformed into one of Europe’s largest urban Wetland nature reserves. MORE >
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Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, Surrey, UK
Christ’s Hospital School, in Horsham, is an independent school that moved to the site in the 1890s following the construction of a purpose made campus designed by Aston Webb. The buildings are Grade II* Listed. MORE >
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St Mary's Community Centre, Stoke Newington, London
The community centre at St Mary, Stoke Newington in north London infills a courtyard that formed part of an earlier cloister extension completed in 1996. MORE >
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Rue de Charenton Apartments, Paris, France
Won in competition by Avenier Cornejo Architectes, Rue de Charenton is a £3.2m social housing scheme located on one of Paris’ oldest and longest streets in the 12th arrondissement. Planned around a rear-facing landscaped courtyard, the eight-storey building comprises 22 apartments and two ground-floor retail units. MORE >
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Lambeth Palace Library, London UK
Designed by Wright & Wright Architects, the new library and archive at London’s Lambeth Palace houses one of the most important collection of religious books, manuscripts and archives in Europe. MORE >
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West House, Stowe School, Buckinghamshire, UK
The new girls’ boarding house for Stowe School has been introduced into one of the pre-eminent examples of the English Landscape Movement. MORE >
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Safari Residential Apartments, Shiraz, Iran
Arts and Craft is alive and well in Iran. The Safari Residential Project is located at the southeast of Shiraz, one of the oldest parts of the city. MORE >
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Hunter Street, Chester, UK
Hunter Street, Chester, is a construction of 77 student residential flats set over six floors, with ancillary and communal facilities, landscaping and car park. MORE >
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Bridgnorth Station, Severn Valley, UK
Bridgnorth Station opened in 1862 and is the working terminus of the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) heritage railway. Lying within the Bridgnorth Conservation Area and overlooked by Pan Pudding Hill, a scheduled ancient monument, the site is a highly significant heritage asset, and all key original buildings still remain. MORE >
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Pablo Fanque House, Norwich
Pablo Fanque House is a new-build student residential accommodation building in Norwich city centre incorporating 244 student bedrooms plus associated social and amenity spaces. The client brief also included an area of leasable flexible office space, new landscaped courtyard with bicycle parking to the rear, and the development is entirely car-free. MORE >
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Mackintosh at the Willow, Glasgow
The £7 million restoration and extension of Glasgow’s iconic Willow Tea Rooms, included the construction of a new modern rear elevation. The result was eye-catching architecture that added a contemporary dynamic to a traditional building originally designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. MORE >
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Wolverton Hall Folly, Worcestershire
When is a folly, not a folly? Whilst aspects of one definition (‘an ornamental building with no practical purpose built in a large garden’) can be applied to describe Wolverton Hall Folly, it certainly contradicts the ‘practical purpose’ element with the most appealing of purposes. MORE >
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Vita Student Apartments, York, UK
The Vita Student project at Lawrence Street, York, designed for Select Property Group by Fuse. Located within the grounds of the former Grade II listed St. Joseph Convent, the new “Student Village” provides 644 bedrooms across 15 new and 3 listed buildings.  MORE >
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Little Donyland, Dulwich, London
“Little Donyland” is a semi-detached neo-Georgian house on the Dulwich Estate. Built in the 1930’s the original interior layout never presented the same grandeur or precision that the exterior displays. MORE >
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Beech Gardens, Ludlow, Shropshire
The site where the Beech Gardens development in Shropshire now sits was once a neglected collection of maisonettes and overgrown gardens. The project, by Shropshire Housing Group in partnership with K4 Architects, was designed to transform the site, creating an independent living scheme that its residents could be proud of. MORE >
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Odder Cemetery Chapel, Odder, Denmark
In the new chapel in the cemetery in Odder, the architect’s vision was to create a sculptural building in which simplicity and solemnity are equally dominant. A major element in the success of the project is the dynamic perforated brickwork solution, which creates varying effects in light and shadow, depending on the time of day.  MORE >
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Branch Place, Colville Estate, Hackney, London UK
Branch Place delivers the first replacement homes in the second phase of the Colville Estate Masterplan designed by Karakusevic Carson Architects in 2010. MORE >
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Old Ford Road, East London, UK
Situated opposite Victoria Park in east London, Old Ford Road is a three-storey residential scheme designed by pH+ Architects. The development, which comprises eight dwellings, is intended to evoke the language of wharf buildings sited alongside Hertford Union Canal, as well as the rhythm and mass of nearby Georgian terraces. MORE >
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Manor Park Campus - University of Surrey
The student residences are part of the new Manor Park Campus at the University of Surrey. The crescent shaped site is lined by trees along its back edge and looks out over the campus across Daphne Jackson Road. The development fits into the University’s masterplan for the campus and was built in two phases. MORE >
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New Gorbals Health and Care Centre, Glasgow, UK
The New Gorbals Health and Care Centre, designed for hubWest and NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde forms part of the Crown Street masterplan and combines four GP services, Dental services and a variety of social care services under one roof, improving the quality and range of health services in the Gorbals neighbourhood. MORE >
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160 Old Street, London, UK
160 Old Street is a contemporary, flexible and collaborative office and retail space in the heart of Islington MORE >
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Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings, Shropshire, UK
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings, Shropshire UK - The 'grandparent' of the Skyscraper MORE >
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Roof Gardens, Manchester, UK
Roof Gardens is a direct response to the question of how sustainable, high density family dwellings can be delivered within a historic urban environment. MORE >
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Elephant Park, Elephant & Castle, South London UK
The Elephant Park masterplan was designed to deliver a vibrant mix of new homes, shops, business and community facilities, set in a network of open spaces including a new public park. This major transformation by Lend Lease aims to help Elephant & Castle regain its place as a thriving and vibrant urban quarter of London. MORE >
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The Village Nursery, Bellingdon, Bucks, UK
A unique eco-build children’s nursery in the village of Bellingdon, Buckinghamshire, nestled in an area of outstanding natural beauty amongst the Chiltern Hills. Designed by the world-renowned German architect Professor Gernot Minke, the octagonal building is constructed around a central earth dome. MORE >
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Rye Apartments, Peckham Rye UK
Designed by Tikari Works, The Rye Apartments is a development of ten sustainable apartments located on a prominent corner site opposite London’s Peckham Rye Park. MORE >
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Woodside Mews, Leavesden, Hertfordshire, UK
Woodside Mews is a development of four three-storey houses on a secluded site in Levesden, Hertfordshire. Designed by TAS Architects, the scheme is conceived as a contemporary take on the traditional terrace home. MORE >
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Hollis Buildings, Sheffield, UK
The scheme comprises the refurbishment and extension of the Hollis Building, a 19th Century former Sunday school. At the heart of Sheffield’s historic Upper Chapel complex, it houses facilities shared by the adjoining Unitarian chapel and Channing Hall, both listed buildings. MORE >
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Walfield House, Hulme, Cheshire, UK
The house sits within 125 acres of prime Cheshire countryside and enjoys views across the Cheshire plains. Two years of negotiation with Cheshire East planning department eventually led to the replacement an existing farm and ancillary buildings with a substantial country house inspired from the neo-classical era. MORE >
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Ditton Hill House, Surbiton Surrey
Designed by Surman Weston, Ditton Hill House is a new-build, two-storey detached dwelling located in Surbiton, London. MORE >
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Material Store, Hayes, Middlesex
Sited in a former commercial environment, these four ‘warehouse’ residential blocks, echo the local vernacular. Material Store, rises above the ground forming a podium that surrounds an oasis of private patios and a large common garden. MORE >
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Ten Oaks Farm, Nr. Bovingdon, Chilterns, UK
Ten Oaks demonstrates unequivocally that buildings can be constructed using traditional materials and skills which complement the landscape, whilst still be ground-breaking and innovative in both its function and design. MORE >
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Murray's Mills
From pioneering mill complex to forgotten industrial building and now to contemporary dwellings for post-industrialites, the history of modern Manchester can be seen in the bricks and mortar that form Murrays’ Mills. MORE >
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Wilrijk Fire Station
A pleasantly outrageous Fire Station in Belgium and one which is deserving of showcasing as to how colour of glazed clay facing bricks can be used to indicate the functionality of the building itself. MORE >
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Royal Academy of Arts
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York House, London
Originally an anonymous, almost forbidding, seven-storey office block constructed in the 1980s, York House on Pentonville Road in Islington is being transformed into a contemporary, light-filled co-working space fit for 21st century use. MORE >
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A Fresh and Green Residential Extension, London
Sanya Polescuk Architects’ extension to a ground-floor flat in North London features brick walls, floors and ceilings. MORE >
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Bailgate Court, (formerly Chad Varah House), Lincoln
Designed by Jonathan Hendry Architects, Bailgate Court is a £4m residential development in Lincoln’s Cathedral Quarter, MORE >
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Chuon, Chuon, Vietnam
A departure from our normal fare, the Chuon Chuon Kim 2 Kindergarten project was introduced to Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 as an educational environment that will stimulate meaningful interactions between pupils and teachers. MORE >
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Musical Masonry, King's College School
The brief for this state-of-the-art music school featured a 200-seat Concert Hall surrounded by rehearsal and teaching space. MORE >
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Lipton Thayer House
Located within a few blocks of the campus of Northwestern University in the suburbs of Chicago, this modest sized courtyard house is wrapped almost entirely in brick. MORE >
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Hox Park
A new high-quality clay brick student development, designed by Studio Partington, Hox Park sits within a stunning elevated parkland. MORE >
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Gainsford Road
Gainsford Road, designed by Gort Scott, is a new development that provides affordable homes for first time buyers in Walthamstow, designed for Pocket Living. MORE >
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Dancy House
Dancy House, designed by Allies and Morrison, is a new female boarding house for 70 pupils with a range of communal, kitchen and dining spaces. MORE >
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Fulham Palace
The £3.8 million HLF-funded restoration and renewal project at Fulham Palace focuses on the Tudor quadrangle, where extensive repair works to the brickwork have challenged conservation orthodoxies. MORE >
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The Caxton at Buckingham Green
Located in the Conservation Area fronting Caxton Street, the building is clad in a rich, textured brick, and turns a previously dark alleyway into a lively new pedestrian street. MORE >
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Pontsteiger
The unusual form was designed with residents’ preferences in mind: residential demand in the area is highest either for the top of high-rises (penthouse views) or the base, to benefit from access to city-level atmosphere. MORE >
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Kenwood Lee House
Set within the Highgate Conservation Area, an area characterised by a distinct Arts & Crafts and ‘Quennell’ vernacular, Kenwood Lee House is conceived as a contemporary interpretation of a double fronted suburban villa. MORE >
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Porters Edge (at Water Yards)
The Water Yards masterplan is a major mixed-use development at Canada Water in Southwark. MORE >
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Cambridge Central Mosque
Designed by Marks Barfield Architects, Cambridge Central Mosque is intended to announce Islam’s presence in Cambridge as a spiritual and cultural centre. MORE >
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The Dorothy Garrod Building, Newnham College
The new building knits itself among those designed by Basil Champneys 100 years earlier and creates a new frontage for the College on Sidgwick Avenue. MORE >
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Regeneration by Raidió Fáilte
The new Raidió Fáilte building seeks a material presence in this area, re-introducing the urban scale and returning ‘front door’ activity to Divis Street. MORE >
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Kirkfell and Caudale, Camden, London
The extensive use of brick is an attempt to re-establish traditional built urban forms and materials while also responding to the 1950s estate. MORE >
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Eddington, Lot 1: North West Cambridge
Lot 1 forms a central component at Eddington, the major urban extension to north-west Cambridge: one of the most significant capital projects that the University of Cambridge has undertaken. MORE >
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Nithurst Farm, Sussex
Nithurst Farm is a new-build family home for the founder of Adam Richards Architects. MORE >
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Fleet House, Hampstead
A sensitive addition to Hampstead Conservation Area in north London, Fleet House is a contemporary dwelling by architect Stanton Williams that reinterprets the historic tradition of boundary walls in Hampstead Village. MORE >
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Drayton Green Church
The folded brick structure of architect Piercy & Company’s first civic building envelops a grade-two-listed chapel MORE >
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Ordnance Road, Enfield
Rustic yellow bricks lend a defining and unifying character to Peter Barber Architects’ Ordnance Road social housing development in Enfield, north London. MORE >
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Marmalade Lane Co-Housing, Cambridge
The project, designed by Mole Architects, follows an eight-year collaboration with K1 Cohousing members. MORE >
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Signal Townhouses
The Signal Townhouses in Greenwich, south-east London, represent an inventive approach to the development of urban residential types that provide high quality homes at relatively high density. MORE >
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Woodside Square, Muswell Hill, London
Designed by Pollard Thomas Edwards, the 2.4-hectare development is intended to promote the “reintegration of older people into the centre of communities using architecture, urban design and enlightened management”. MORE >
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Castle Lane housing, London
Layered planes of brickwork facades are offset by curvaceous full-height windows in the Castle Lane residential development in central London. MORE >
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Abode Phase Two, Great Kneighton, Cambridge
Abode is a mixed-tenure development with 40 per cent affordable homes, which are allocated tenure-blind to help achieve consistency across the whole quarter. MORE >
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Corner House, Crouch End, London
A palette of textured brick and zinc is employed by Zuber Dobson Architects (ZDA) to model the distinctive forms of the Corner House in the Crouch End Conservation Area, north London. MORE >
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Park House, Harpenden
Park House is a high-density residential scheme in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, designed by architect RCKa and commissioned by innovative retirement home developer Pegasus Life. MORE >
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Passivhaus social housing in Norwich
The largest social housing scheme in the UK to achieve Passivhaus certification. MORE >
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Alsop Fields, Sheffield
Providing a gateway to Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Quarter, Alsop Fields is a major mixed-use development designed by Cartwright Pickard. MORE >
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Portland Apartments, Oxford
Portland Apartments is a three-storey residential project in Summertown, north Oxford, designed by local practice Adrian James Architects. MORE >
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Beacon Lodge
Designed by PH+, Beacon Lodge is a residential scheme located in north London. MORE >
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Blackrock House, Dundalk, Ireland
Blackrock House is located near the predominantly red-brick town of Dundalk, County Louth, on Ireland’s east coast. MORE >
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Student Centre, University College London
Nicholas Hare Architects’ Student Centre supports the needs and learning of University College London students at the heart of its Bloomsbury campus. MORE >
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35 Marylebone High Street
The mixed-use redevelopment by architect Dixon Jones, of 35 Marylebone High Street in London, incorporates a 1930s retained facade fronting a range of brick apartment terraces that cascade down to a row of houses that re-establishes the mews behind. MORE >
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Hive House
Nimtim Architects has completed “a simple but effective stepped rear extension for our sociable, book-loving clients, in a shared vision to create something unpretentious but materially and spatially rich”. MORE >
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Turberville Building, Eltham College
Designed by Levitt Bernstein, the Turberville Building is the first significant project in half a century to be undertaken in more than 50 years at Eltham College, an independent school in Mottingham, south-east London. MORE >
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ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS
The Royal College of Pathologists has moved into its new 4,500-square-metre headquarters in East London, designed by Bennetts Associates. MORE >
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WILDERNESSE ESTATE MEWS, KENT
The Wildernesse Estate mews has been designed by architect Morris & Co as part of a holistic retirement community in the grounds of the Wildernesse Estate in Sevenoaks, Kent. MORE >
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MCGRATH ROAD
McGrath Road in Stratford, east London, comprises a perimeter block of what its architect Peter Barber terms ‘tower houses’ arranged in terraces around a rectangular courtyard. MORE >
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MUIRSKEITH ROAD HOUSING, GLASGOW
Collective Architecture was commissioned by Home Group Scotland to design 32 new houses and a children’s home on a compact brownfield site on Glasgow’s south side. MORE >
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BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY
The £41m Faculty of Health, Education & Life Sciences, designed by Sheppard Robson with interior design group ID:SR at Birmingham City University’s City South Campus, provides a full range of teaching spaces plus research and product development facilities for local and national businesses. MORE >
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FOUR GENERATIONS FAMILY HOUSE
Square Feet Architects has completed a new red-brick house in Elstree, Hertfordshire, for a family of four generations. MORE >
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THE INTERLOCK
Staffordshire Blue Clay bricks provide a distinctive and idiosyncratic facade for The Interlock, a five-storey mixed-use building designed by architect Bureau de Change for developer HGG London. MORE >
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FAMILY COMMUNE IN BETHNAL GREEN
The red bricks for an experimental communal living project were selected by architect Daykin Marshall Studio to blend in with the context of a social housing estate in east London. MORE >
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HOXTON PRESS
Almost one million bricks feature in the two residential towers of Hoxton Press in east London, designed by Karakusevic Carson Architects and David Chipperfield Architects. MORE >
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MONIER ROAD, FISH ISLAND VILLAGE
Fish Island Village is a £125 million live-work neighbourhood south of Hackney Wick and west of the London Olympics site MORE >
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The Defence & National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC)
The Defence & National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) at Stanford on Stour, is among the largest groups of classical buildings to be built in UK in the past century. The centre promotes innovative approaches to clinical rehabilitation for members of the armed forces, and these are embodied in the design by John Simpson Architects. MORE >
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CURIOUS KIRKEBY
The celebrated Danish artist Per Kirkeby (1938-2018) built more brick structures in his lifetime than many architects. While paintings were his main focus, Kirkeby embraced sculpture, film, poetry, art criticism, travel writing, ballet sets and theatrical costumes and film, as well as architecture. MORE >
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CRANESBILL
Cranesbill, a new house in the Wiltshire village of Tisbury, replaces a bungalow with a two-storey extension. Architect Jamie Campbell and his client first explored ways to adapt the existing building, but that proved problematic, so they opted for demolition. MORE >
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RELAXED REHEARSAL
Newground Architects’ Rehearsal Rooms, a high-density, mixed-use development, is one of the first purpose-designed private sector schemes for the Build-to-Rent (BTR) market in London. MORE >
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CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL
Three brick chimneys provide a striking signature for the new Science & Mathematics Centre at Charterhouse School, near Godalming in Surrey, a commission won in 2009 against distinguished competition by architect Design Engine. MORE >
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URBANEST VAUXHALL: 32 STOREYS OF BRICK
Urbanest Vauxhall is a high-end student housing scheme. Designed by Glenn Howells Architects, the £40m tower’s language of brick piers and stone bands is intended to convey an “assertively calm response to its industrial context”. MORE >
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MODEST MASONRY
The first project by the new office of Magri Williams Architects, at Roslyn Road in Tottenham, north London, reimagines an existing Victorian house. MORE >
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BLACKFRIARS CIRCUS
The major redevelopment of Blackfriars Circus has been completed by architect Maccreanor Lavington on Blackfriars Road at St George’s Circus in London; a key design principal of which is embracing the curvature of the circus and reinforcing its historical significance. MORE >
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FASTIDIOUS FACADE
The decorative brick facades of Stiff & Trevillion’s 40 Beak Street in London’s Soho respond to the rich architectural history of the district. MORE >
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THE PERPETUATED DISTINCTION OF SAVOY CIRCUS
A distinctive 1930s Savoy Cinema, demolished 23 years ago, is evoked in a new student housing development built on its prominent corner site in East Acton, west London, by architect HTA Design. MORE >
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A SOCIAL HEART OF BRICK
Studio Partington was commissioned to provide new classrooms, ICT facilities and a multipurpose learning hub and to rationalise circulation across the site of Holmewood House, an independent prep school, which occupies a rural 30-acre site near Tunbridge Wells. MORE >
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FOLDED INTO FOXBERRY ROAD
Despite its relatively modest dimensions, architect Jack Woolley exploits the design of a new-build house in south London to add cohesion and continuity to its fragmented context. MORE >
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A COLLAGE OF BRICK, OXFORD
Panter Hudspith’s contribution to the renewal and extension of Westgate shopping centre in Oxford incorporates an intriguing and engaging brickwork facade, conceived as a collage of textures and planes that tempers the scale of the development on its southerly side. MORE >
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BETHNAL GREEN MISSION CHURCH
Designed by Gatti Routh Rhodes, Bethnal Green Mission Church in London’s East End represents a groundbreaking model for contemporary places of worship in dense urban environments. MORE >
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CREEK ROAD
Creek Road is a mixed-use residential and commercial development in Greenwich, south London, designed by architect BPTW. MORE >
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BRICKWORKS
Designed by Brady Mallalieu, ‘Brickworks’ comprises a 1,000-square-metre community centre and 23 social rented homes on the Holly Park Estate in Crouch Hill, north London. MORE >
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UMPIRE VIEW
Inspired by London's 'Metroland' heritage, Umpire View in Harrow responds to the area's traditions in a contemporary manner. MORE >
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HAZELHURST COURT
Hazelhurst Court develops an under-used site adjacent to Beckenham Hill station in the London Borough of Lewisham to provide 60 affordable homes for older people and extensive communal spaces. MORE >
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ARCHITECTURAL ASSESSMENT
Occupying a triangular site that once formed part of the estate of Cambridge University Press, Eric Parry Architects’ latest building forms a new landmark on the approach by train into the historic city. MORE >
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EXPANDING EDUCATION
The Robert Browning Primary School forms part of an ambitious programme led by the London Borough of Southwark to deliver 11 refurbished and new primary schools in the borough. MORE >
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MARKLAKE COURT
Marklake Court is a community-led development of council rent homes on the Kipling Estate near London Bridge. MORE >
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A LEGACY OF LEARNING
Designed by Dixon Jones, Marlborough Primary School, in the London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, replaces a Victorian school dating from 1878 MORE >
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ERUPTIVE INNOVATION
Bespoke dark brickwork provides a striking façade for Urban Mesh Design’s ‘Volcano House’. MORE >
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MATERIAL STORE
Designed by Newground Architects, Material Store is a 189-dwelling, build-for-rent scheme that forms part of the redevelopment of The Old Vinyl Factory site in Hayes. MORE >
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MOOR'S NOOK, HORSELL
Communality and community are the main drivers of Coffey Architects’ design for a retirement living complex for Pegasus Life on the edge of central Woking in Surrey. MORE >
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ARLINGTON ROAD HOUSING, CAMDEN
A redundant 1930’s brick-built neoclassical electricity substation in Camden, north London, has been repurposed as apartments by architect Studio 54. MORE >
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STREATHAM SPACE PROJECT
Clad in a striking facade of linear brickwork, the Streatham Space Project is a new 120-seat theatre and arts centre in south London. MORE >
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ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH
St Michael and All Angels, in north Oxford, is a curiosity: a lofty, light-filled Victorian Gothic church MORE >
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CONTEMPORARY VICTORIAN
119 Farringdon Road, nearing completion in London’s Clerkenwell, is conceived by architect AHMM as a contemporary interpretation of a Victorian warehouse building. MORE >
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ELM GROVE HALL
Elm Grove Hall provides inclusive and accessible accommodation for 400 students and conference guests at the heart of the University of Roehampton’s south London campus. MORE >
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VICTORIA HALL, KING'S CROSS
Designed by architect Stanton Williams for a site in the northerly quarter of London’s King’s Cross regeneration project, the ambition for Victoria Hall was to raise the bar among student residences. MORE >
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TEMPLE GARDENS, SOMERSET
Temple Gardens is a brownfield development of nine homes and a suite of guest rooms for an existing public house at Temple Cloud, Somerset, designed by architect Archio. MORE >
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AN ORIGINAL REVEAL
The Sekforde project comprises the restoration of a historic pub, and the design of a new building on an adjacent disused street-facing service yard in London’s Clerkenwell district, by Chris Dyson Architects. MORE >
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A CONTEMPORARY IDIOM, GREAT SUFFOLK STREET
Hawkins\Brown’s refurbishment and extension of 53 Great Suffolk Street, a Victorian warehouse in Southwark, incorporates a new-build extension that reinterprets the language of the existing building in a contemporary idiom to deliver contemporary office space. MORE >
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A WAREHOUSE AESTHETIC?
Stirling Prize-winning architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has completed a mixed-use, mid-rise building in Southwark, south London, following a longstanding collaboration with innovative developer Solidspace. Entirely clad in light brickwork, 81-87 Weston Street provides eight multi-level apartments above a ground-floor commercial space. MORE >
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TIMEKEEPERS SQUARE
Timekeepers Square is a development of 36 townhouses within the Adelphi and Bexley Square conservation area in Salford by Manchester-based Buttress Architects. It forms part of the English Cities Fund’s Salford Central regeneration scheme, which aims to revitalise more than 50 acres of Salford’s historic central district. MORE >
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LENTON GARDENS ESTATE REGENERATION
The largest and most ambitious estate regeneration project in Nottingham MORE >
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RED HOUSE
“using brick, a relatively ubiquitous material, allows the house to be humble and deferential to its existing neighbours, yet the bright red colour with mortar coloured to match, creates a building that is also bold and highly individual” MORE >
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BOURNE ESTATE: A CELEBRATION OF BRICK AND LOCAL HERITAGE
Two brick-built residential buildings by Matthew Lloyd Architects, together with a landscaped court, make a bold yet sympathetic addition to the Bourne Estate, an important early London County Council housing estate. MORE >
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BROOKE MEAD, BRIGHTON
Brighton & Hove City Council’s first ‘extra-care’ housing scheme MORE >
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EXTENDED CHARACTER
Responding to a brief to transform the ground floor of an Edwardian terraced house in North London to better suit their clients’ modern lifestyle, Trewhela Williams architects conceived a minimalist extension, the focus of which is a new kitchen/diner at the heart of the family home. MORE >
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NEWHAM FAMILY HOMES
Panter Hudspith has designed a typology for a three-bedroom, six-person home, 15 of which have been completed on Brede and Darwell Closes, and Abbey Lane in Newham, east London. MORE >
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STOREY'S FIELD COMMUNITY CENTRE BY MUMA
Serving the new community of Eddington on the North West Cambridge development, Storey’s Field Community Centre and Nursery is arranged around three sides of a landscaped courtyard. The civic-scaled Community Centre, with a hall with a capacity of 180, flanks an entrance terrace and forms a marker in the new urban realm. MORE >
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SUTHERLAND ROAD HOUSING, WALTHAMSTOW
Developer L&Q’s fully-affordable Sutherland Road housing in Walthamstow, London, has been designed by Levitt Bernstein to provide 59 homes around a communal garden, together with a health centre. MORE >
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MILLER PARTNERSHIP - ENVELOPED IN WARMTH
Two next-door neighbours wished to downsize from their large Victorian terrace houses while remaining within their community at Ouseburn in Newcastle, so together they commissioned Miller Partnership to design two new houses at the bottom of their long back gardens. MORE >
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CHESTER'S CULTURAL CENTRE
Chester’s £37m Storyhouse cultural centre integrates the grade-two-listed shell of a 1936 Odeon cinema and a new brick and translucent glass extension. MORE >
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BELGIAN SUSTAINABILITY: MONUMENTAL PASSIVITY
The Herman Teirlinck building, designed by Neutelings Riedijk to house ­the Flemish Government in Brussels, is the largest passive office building in Belgium. MORE >
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KENSINGTON'S FIRST PURPOSE-BUILT SCHOOL IN 100 YEARS
Kensington Primary Academy is a newly completed single form entry school for pupils aged from 4-11 years old. Located on the prominent corner of Kensington High Street and Warwick Road, the school is part of Squire & Partners’ Warwick Road Masterplan. MORE >
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SETTING THE BENCHMARK FOR NEW COUNCIL HOMES
The first council-led social housing delivered by Enfield Council in four decades, Dujardin Mews forms the first phase of the wider regeneration of Ponders End and replacement homes for the neighbouring Alma Estate. MORE >
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CLAY COLONNADE
The National Vaccinology Centre: The Jenner Building is a high-tech laboratory for 100 scientists at The Pirbright Institute in Surrey. The new national facility, designed by NBBJ, enhances the UK’s capability to control, contain and eliminate viral diseases of animals through innovative fundamental and applied bioscience. MORE >
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THE HANDMADE BRICKS OF HIGHGATE JUNIOR SCHOOL
Coupling the historical yellow brick of Ingleholme with contemporary materials such as handmade red brick, stone and glass, has created an attractive rhythm to the façade that complements the historical character of the street. MORE >
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BREMER LANDESBANK, BREMEN
Caruso St John’s Bremer Landesbank questions what a bank should look like in the twenty-first century MORE >
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MODEL MUSWELL?
The Pinnacle N10, by architect pH+, is a contemporary housing scheme that follows the topography of its site in Muswell Hill, north London. MORE >
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CONTEMPORARY DESIGN IN A HERITAGE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Trevor Horne Architects has completed a brick house in Canada, on the shore of Lake Ontario at Cobourg, 100km east of Toronto, for a retired couple who were relocating from the nearby family farm in Grafton. MORE >
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UNDERSTATED MATERIALS' MATERIAL STATEMENT
Located on a brownfield site adjacent to the Edgbaston Conservation Area, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ Indoor Sports Centre at the University of Birmingham forms a gateway to the University’s Edgbaston Campus and is intended to express a welcoming civic identity to the A38, which runs along the site’s southern boundary. MORE >
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OSLO'S OPEN SAFETY
The main aim in Hille Melbye Arkitekter’s design of the Oslo Psychiatric Centre was to reconcile seemingly contradictory aspects of safety with openness. MORE >
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A NEW MODEL FOR SUBURBAN HOUSING ESTATES?
St Chads in Tilbury, Essex, is the first project that Thurrock Council has undertaken through Gloriana, a wholly-owned company it has set up to deliver new homes. MORE >
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2400 NEW HOMES IN SOUTH KILBURN ESTATE REGENERATION
Alison Brooks' Ely Court, South Kilburn Estate Regeneration. MORE >
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GO WITH THE FLOW
A sculptural hospital auditorium in Belgium. MORE >
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DOWN TO BUSINESS
Subtle brick tones articulate and organise an Amsterdam residential development by LEVS Architecten. MORE >
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LESS IS MORE
A London mews house by Russell Jones Architects is a lesson in visual, spatial and structural economy. MORE >
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CONTEXTUAL CONTINUITY
A richly detailed residential scheme in London by Hawkins Brown employs a range of different coloured bricks. MORE >
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TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT
Monochromatic masonry articulates a redeveloped former office building. MORE >
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FIT FOR PURPOSE
Keppie Design and Hoskins Architects have used brick to create a robust and visually striking healthcare centre. MORE >
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CORNER CONDITION
A contextually sensitive London housing scheme by Child Graddon Lewis is carefully detailed in brick. MORE >
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HOME FROM HOME
Located on a quiet residential road close to London’s Wandsworth High Street, 4-8 Hafer Road is a co-housing project designed by Peter Barber Architects. MORE >
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