One Molyneux, London

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A stylish urban block in a Marylebone conservation area MORE >
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Redevelopment of the former Moylinney House nursing home in Newtownabbey MORE >
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Student accommodation development located on a prominent gateway to the city MORE >
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A University campus, designed to meet BREEAM ‘Excellent’ environmental standards, with the aspiration to be a carbon neutral development MORE >
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The use of light defines the character of this stunning suburban home designed with a clay lattice skin MORE >
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Three-bedroom detached family home designed Sustainably using local materials MORE >
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Iconic approach to the World-famous National Stadium MORE >
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Bold Contemporary masonry detailing lifting the original buildings aesthetic MORE >
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Unparalleled brickwork quality situated in an enviable and cosmopolitan location MORE >
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Incredible story of commitment from dedicated individuals within the brick industry MORE >
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well-designed homes with good space standards and low running costs MORE >
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A monastery rebuilt into its current sustainable and uniquely spiritual form following damage by an earthquake MORE >
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Reinvigoration of Grade II listed building in the heart of Sunderland's East End - led by The Churches Conservation Trust. MORE >
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34 Stylish apartments with essential Glasgow connectivity MORE >
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Striking design creates a unique social space for residents and the local community MORE >
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A demonstration that the craft of bricklaying is alive and well! MORE >
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Stylish collection of luxury residences situated in the idyllic village of Brailes MORE >
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High quality Student accommodation that compliments both the rural and the urban landscape MORE >
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The Manor House is constructed out of local limestone, however, the village is not heavily steeped in history or architectural merit and has seen an increase in housing, both singular and estate developments over recent years. MORE >
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A project conceived and planned with sustainability and wellness in mind! MORE >
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South Downs house extension with charming brickwork detail MORE >
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Urban Regeneration using bricks manufactured using the latest technology in sustainability and production efficiency! MORE >
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Bold Indian design demonstrating what is possible with clay brick! MORE >
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Well designed contemporary and robust secondary school MORE >
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A fantastic example of the construction industry working collaboratively to drive future home standards MORE >
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Fifteen storey brick development with complex detailing and features MORE >
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Featuring careful brickwork detailing throughout, with eye-catching sawtooth detailing to the façade and perforated brickwork to the rear terraces. MORE >
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The Buildings' materials relate to the robust architecture of some of Liverpool’s historic civic buildings and dockside architecture MORE >
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Wellington House combines the iconic orange brickwork with green glazed ceramics, which brings to mind the image of a classic Victorian corner pub MORE >
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Historic estate fronting Ham Common MORE >
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Affordable mixed tenure housing development in a prominent waterside location in Cardiff Bay MORE >
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A unique design combines high specification modern materials with traditional craftsmanship in a creative and innovative way making the house resemble the local historic buildings MORE >
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A carefully selected palette of materials have been chosen to create a dialogue with the adjacent context. MORE >
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Georgian inspired wheat coloured contemporary terraced houses located in Peckham Rye MORE >
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The highest level of craftsmanship in realising the architect’s vision MORE >
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Beautifully crafted addition to the bohemian heart of Liverpool. The Epic Hotel creates a high-quality infill that brings an aesthetic boost to Seel Street MORE >
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The use of brick creates a clear material relationship with the facade of the industrial surroundings, whilst being contemporary. MORE >
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Exceptionally durable and glistening engineering bricks reflect the character and heritage of the canal MORE >
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The architecture and landscape merge with each other to create a playful and engaging place that is both calming and spiritual. MORE >
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Stunning brickwork on display at the Jesus College porters lodge MORE >
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This central Manchester residential scheme is a remarkable tribute to the Bridge Water Canalside industrial heritage MORE >
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Canalside regeneration creating public parkland and over a thousand energy efficient brick homes. MORE >
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Ibstock and Taylor Wimpey collaborate to celebrate the historic journey between the colliery and the Ibstock brick works. MORE >
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The care and quality of the bricklaying is a testament to the skill of the builders. Their craftmanship will forever be connected with the anonymous hands that created the luminous tapestry of the existing buildings. MORE >
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Contemporary Kentish oast house MORE >
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Stunning new flagship building for Irish-medium education MORE >
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Beautiful brick restoration project on Brighton's historic seafront MORE >
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Thermally efficient brick craftsmanship masterpiece in Kerala, India MORE >
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Industrially inspired development situated in the Ropewalks area of Liverpool MORE >
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A sensitive yet colourful addition to the Edgware Road, Lyons Place is an innovative development in Westminster, comprising 76 apartments and townhouses. MORE >
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Ingenious and efficient urban housing Scheme, providing residents with social space to admire the the shimmering brickwork. MORE >
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Beautifully innovative project inspired by Salford’s textile heritage MORE >
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Valentine House is a charming individual housing project with high quality brickwork that complements the other materials, (stone, timber) to make a very convincing building that was shortlisted at the 2021 Brick Awards. MORE >
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Pump House reinvigorates a prominent corner plot in the centre of South Norwood by creating 14 new homes and a new library two minutes’ walk from Norwood Junction Station. MORE >
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Hackney New Primary School is a mixed-use project with affordable housing within the Kingsland Conservation Area. MORE >
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A very cute project, this wonderful piece of work by BAT Studio Architects was aimed at transforming what was, a virtually dilapidated and run down set of garages, replacing it with a new community hub and artist studios. MORE >
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Prospect House in South Dublin dates from the 18th century, it originally commanded a landscaped demesne that has reduced over time as suburbs grew around it. Little is known of the early history of the house, which since the mid-nineteenth century was used as a college and more recently a private girls’ school. MORE >
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Freeland Rees Roberts Architects have completed Clare St. Regis, a mixed-use regeneration scheme for Clare College Cambridge, featuring new student accommodation and market flats. MORE >
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Architect, Amir Hossein of Ashari Architects, based in Shiraz, Iran, and one of the Brick Development Associations’ favourite Iranian architects, created the Pause in response to the challenging architectural installation competition held near one of the most important historic gardens in Shiraz. MORE >
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P+P Architects’ single-storey house extension in south-west London is a lesson in materiality and subtle detailing. MORE >
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Formerly part of the Priddy's Hard, Ministry of Defence Ordnance Deport, which served the Royal Navy throughout the centuries, the Ordnance Yard is a development of nine homes set within Napoleonic and Victorian built heavily structured traverses - large structures that were once blast walls to sheds where in former times, shells were filled with explosives. MORE >
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Situated close to the Brick Development Association's offices and importantly to our regular haunt, the Bricklayer's Arms, 80 Charlotte Street is a mixed-use development comprising commercial, residential and retail accommodation, as well as a small public park in London’s Fitzrovia. MORE >
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Parkside, Jestico + Whiles’ staff headquarters for the nation's Imperial War Museums serves as a central hub for the organisation’s employees and is located close to the main Iimperial War Museum in Southwark, South London. MORE >
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Designed by Sheppard Robson Architects, Barony Campus consolidates five schools into one campus, creating a centre for education and culture for the towns of Cumnock and neighbouring Auchinleck in Ayrshire, Scotland. MORE >
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This project, based alongside a peaceful canal in Paris, is conceived as a homogeneous whole, sober, and refined. The building envelope reflects and answers to the architectural heritage of the city and the qualitative development of this new district, in the view of the architect. MORE >
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The University of Birmingham's new 172-bedroomed hotel and Conference Centre comprises a complex site within the Edgbaston conservation area. MORE >
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Twenty Grosvenor Square, the world’s first standalone Four Seasons Residence, is London’s finest address. Located on one of the world’s grandest garden squares, it is a home of historical significance, comprising thirty-seven private residences. MORE >
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Set astride an existing brick wall and incorporating a range of unusual brick bonds, Southwark Brick House in Bermondsey, south London, is a showcase for this highly versatile building material. MORE >
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The H B Allen Centre is an exciting and significant new building project in central Oxford and one of the largest student accommodation projects in the UK. Occupying 1.7 hectares site within the North Oxford Victorian Suburb Conservation Area, between Banbury and Woodstock Road, the new 12,250m2 multi-faceted amenity for Keble College is a centre for Oxford’s growing graduate student community, bringing together academia, commerce and technology in a truly innovative way. MORE >
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Located at the junction of Westbourne Park Villas and Porchester Road in west London, Westbourne Park Baptist Church replaces an existing religious building that was outdated, poorly configured and lacked disabled access. MORE >
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This significant new building has been carefully crafted to embrace and enhance its beautiful landscaped setting. A brick cloister offers a calm, collegiate quality to the building’s approach. Inside, an intricate lattice timber structure rises to three glazed lanterns lending a befitting grandeur to the refectory – the communal heart of the school. MORE >
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For the third and final of our features on Bell Phillips Architects' developments in east London, colour and the local material palette have also influenced the design for the new homes on the Locksley Estate. MORE >
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A departure from our normal fare, this beautiful restoration is built using reclaimed clay brick.  Designed by Will Gamble Architects, the project extends and reworks a Grade II listed Victorian house and its outbuildings in Northamptonshire. MORE >
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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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, 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 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 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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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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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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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” 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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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 - The 'grandparent' of the Skyscraper MORE >
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Designed by Surman Weston, Ditton Hill House is a new-build, two-storey detached dwelling located in Surbiton, London. MORE >
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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 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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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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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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The Royal Academy of Arts MORE >
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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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Sanya Polescuk Architects’ extension to a ground-floor flat in North London features brick walls, floors and ceilings. MORE >
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Designed by Jonathan Hendry Architects, Bailgate Court is a £4m residential development in Lincoln’s Cathedral Quarter, MORE >
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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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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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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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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, 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, 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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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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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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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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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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The Water Yards masterplan is a major mixed-use development at Canada Water in Southwark. MORE >
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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 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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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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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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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 is a new-build family home for the founder of Adam Richards Architects. MORE >
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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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The folded brick structure of architect Piercy & Company’s first civic building envelops a grade-two-listed chapel MORE >
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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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The project, designed by Mole Architects, follows an eight-year collaboration with K1 Cohousing members. MORE >
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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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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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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 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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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 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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The largest social housing scheme in the UK to achieve Passivhaus certification. MORE >
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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 is a three-storey residential project in Summertown, north Oxford, designed by local practice Adrian James Architects. MORE >
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Designed by PH+, Beacon Lodge is a residential scheme located in north London. MORE >
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Blackrock House is located near the predominantly red-brick town of Dundalk, County Louth, on Ireland’s east coast. MORE >
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Square Feet Architects has completed a new red-brick house in Elstree, Hertfordshire, for a family of four generations. MORE >
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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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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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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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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) 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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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, 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 is a mixed-use residential and commercial development in Greenwich, south London, designed by architect BPTW. MORE >
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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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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 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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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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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 is a community-led development of council rent homes on the Kipling Estate near London Bridge. MORE >
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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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Bespoke dark brickwork provides a striking façade for Urban Mesh Design’s ‘Volcano House’. MORE >
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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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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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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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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, in north Oxford, is a curiosity: a lofty, light-filled Victorian Gothic church MORE >
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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 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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The largest and most ambitious estate regeneration project in Nottingham MORE >
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“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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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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Brighton & Hove City Council’s first ‘extra-care’ housing scheme MORE >
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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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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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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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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 £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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Completed in 1962, Harvey Court in Cambridge is regarded as a pivotal project in twentieth-century British architecture, pointing the way towards a relaxed, sensitive approach that embraced tradition yet sought modern solutions. MORE >
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Born in Amsterdam in 1884, Michel de Klerk was apprenticed to architect Eduard Cuypers (1859-1927) at the age of 14, where he came to work with Piet Kramer and Johan van der Mey, later key exponents of the Amsterdam School. MORE >
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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 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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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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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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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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Caruso St John’s Bremer Landesbank questions what a bank should look like in the twenty-first century MORE >
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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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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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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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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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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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Alison Brooks' Ely Court, South Kilburn Estate Regeneration. MORE >
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The title of Supreme Winner at this year’s Brick Awards was awarded to Maccreanor Lavington’s South Gardens, a Lendlease development, which also picked up the title of best Large Housing Development. MORE >
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When Stephen Proctor and Andrew Matthews first set up in practice in the late 1980s they tended to design few buildings in brick. Those brick buildings they did complete early in their career have stood the test of time. MORE >
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A sculptural hospital auditorium in Belgium. MORE >
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There’s no getting away from the fact that London is built mostly of brick. From row upon row of Victorian terraces to comfortable mansion blocks and awe-inspiring civic buildings, brick is the London vernacular. People like brick. MORE >
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Subtle brick tones articulate and organise an Amsterdam residential development by LEVS Architecten. MORE >
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The Switch House by Herzog & de Meuron and engineer Ramboll extends the south side of London’s Tate Modern art gallery, and includes three levels of gallery space, a restaurant, cafe, members’ room and viewing terrace. MORE >
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A London mews house by Russell Jones Architects is a lesson in visual, spatial and structural economy. MORE >
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From today’s perspective, with its shops, workshops, bars, restaurants, galleries and a hotel, Bremen’s Boettcherstrasse (1923-31) looks like a prescient model of urban regeneration. MORE >
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A richly detailed residential scheme in London by Hawkins Brown employs a range of different coloured bricks. MORE >
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Neil Gillespie, design director of Reiach & Hall, has an unapologetic passion for building in brick. MORE >
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Monochromatic masonry articulates a redeveloped former office building. MORE >
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Keppie Design and Hoskins Architects have used brick to create a robust and visually striking healthcare centre. MORE >
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A contextually sensitive London housing scheme by Child Graddon Lewis is carefully detailed in brick. MORE >
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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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