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Apartments

The Depot, Manchester

The Depot, Whalley Range, Manchester by Buttress Architects for Rise Homes Map Street View Map Street View For 100 years, the corner of Bowes Street and Princess Road in Moss Side was home to a large bus depot. Today, it is The Depot – a more than 300-home neighbourhood offering a mixture of tenures suited …

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Wapping Wharf, Bristol

Wapping Wharf phase 1 by Alec French Architects for Umberslade and Muse Developments Map Street View Map Street View Wapping Wharf Phase I is a mixed-use scheme comprising 194 apartments for sale and for rent including 24 affordable units and 10 retail units, creating a new street connecting Cumberland Road to Museum Street called Gaol …

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Trudo Tower Eindhoven

The Trudo Tower by Stefano Boeri Architetti for Trudo Netherlands Map Street View Map Street View The 18-storey tower is 70 meters high and offers space for 125 social housing units. There are eight lofts per floor from the 4th to the 18th floor. Five lofts are located on the third floor, which is shared with a …

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Botanica Apartments

Botanica Apartments by Tim Groom Architects The site occupies a highly prominent location alongside the Bridgewater Way, a major arterial road running south west from Manchester City Centre towards Old Trafford and the rest of the Trafford Borough.   The analysis of the site and its surrounding context informed the design concept of the proposal. …

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The Echoes

The Echoes by Bell Phillips Architects The development is of mostly of three storeys, rising to four in part. The final side of the courtyard is the boundary fence of a railway cutting on the line to the port. Fifty-three flats are arranged in three linear blocks across the site, pulling away from the railway …

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Murray’s Mills, Ancoats

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 …

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Kingsland Road, London

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 …

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Hammond Court

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 …

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Ely Court

Ely Court by Alison Brookes Architects for Catalyst Housing Ely Court is a 43-dwelling mixed-tenure regeneration scheme within Phase 1b of London’s South Kilburn Estate Regeneration masterplan The scheme demonstrates the ability of a Local Authority to lead the process of enlightened city building, by commissioning and delivering housing of the highest caliber to integrate …

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Carpenters Wharf

Carpenters Wharf, Hackney Whick by Studio Egret West Carpenters Wharf is a new mixed-use scheme alongside the canal in Hackney Wick. The building’s mass has been divided into smaller elements to address the historical scale of the canal side setting, whilst contributing to a vibrant public realm that integrates with the local artistic community. Located …

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