Urban Environment House, Helsinki by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects The Urban Environment House is a building designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects for the Urban Environment Division responsible for, e.g., city planning, building supervision, and environmental services in the City of Helsinki, Finland. It is the winner of the Tekla BIM Award 2020 for Finland and …
Oldham Town Hall by BDP for Oldham Council The development ensures certain architectural features and decorations are retained while allowing the building to have a new use. The existing ballroom, council chamber, committee rooms and court rooms have been kept and transformed into cinema screens, while a new extension, a translucent glass light-box, creates a new façade …
Nunhead Green by AOC and Derek Millar Architects Nunhead Green transforms a brownfield site, redefining existing connections between the village green and surrounding neighbourhood. The scheme includes a new public community centre and enhances access to Nunhead’s high street. The site is adjacent to a local bus stop and a short walk from Overground and …
Nordbro Complex, Copenhagen by Arkitema With room for 700 students, the student flat block Nordbro accommodates this need via its flats and grocery store, small commercial tenancies and a café. At the same time, Nordbro is strategically placed in terms of infrastructure since public transport in the form of the S-train station and the metro …
Murrays’ Mills, Ancoats by Field Clegg Bradley Studios Originally built in 1798, the industrial complex comprises two parallel 7-8-storey mills linked by a more recognisably Georgian administrative building. A new-build residential building completes the courtyard, which has been transformed from an abandoned canal turning basin to a landscaped garden. Source: Architecture Today Map …
Kingsland Road by Henley Halebrown for Thornsett This project combines an 11-storey apartment building providing 68 affordable homes and a 350-pupil primary school, with shops at street level. The relatively compact footprint of the residential tower frees up much of the site for the school and protects it from the noise and fumes from one …
Harris Academy, Sutton by Architype for London Borough Sutton The pioneering Harris Academy Sutton is the UK’s first Passivhaus secondary school and the largest Passivhaus school in the UK. The new building forms the cornerstone of the London Cancer Hub, featuring world-class research and treatment facilities. The school has a special focus on the science …
Hammond Court by MAE Architects Hammond Court is a 43 dwelling mixed tenure residential scheme. The estate regeneration project replaces a series of unpopular 1970s buildings. The architecture offers a carefully crafted, high quality place to live rather than one of novelty and sensation. The design takes inspiration from the surrounding Warner Estate’s popular …
Hale Wharf by Allies and Morrison for Muse Developments and Canal and River Trust Situated on a slender island on the River Lea, this project provides much needed new housing to meet the needs of this changing part of north-east London. It will also open up access to a striking waterside setting, long inaccessible and …
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool by Haworth Tompkins The challenge for the new Everyman Theatre was to replace and re-present an iconic Liverpool institution at the centre of the city’s cultural and political life. The theatre began life in a nineteenth century chapel and was converted in the 1970s, becoming a centre of theatrical and political energy …
Trafford Council, Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford, M32 0TH
