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Patel Taylor Architects’ Lowther School Children’s Centre

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Patel Taylor’s Children’s Centre in Barnes, south-west London, is the first stage of a project that aims to boost the whole of the local community

Sanaa’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The surreal landscapes of the Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne belie a more traditional belief in the link between open spaces and education

Herzog & de Meuron’s Vitra Haus showrooms Germany

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Herzog & de Meuron’s showrooms for chair manufacturer Vitra puts domestic forms to unsettling use.

David Chipperfield’s Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Following the triumph of the Neues Museum, Chipperfield’s latest building in Essen had a tough act to follow. And while it is accomplished, has the architect played it too safe?

ABK’s Library, Local Area Offices and Courthouse, in Kilmallock, County Limerick

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A single-storey civic complex in Kilmallock has saved the Irish town from a grim architectural legacy of 19th century workhouses

Cottrell & Vermeulen’s Krishna-Avanti School in Harrow

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The brief for Britain’s first state-funded Hindu school combined adhering to the traditional Vastu Shastra science of construction while creating an essentially modern building

5th Studio’s reworking of the George V Pavilion in Cambridge

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

As part of the regeneration of Trumpington in Cambridge, 5th Studio has recrowned the tired George V pavilion with an overhaul and extension to accommodate the whole neighbourhood

DSDHA’s double chemistry lesson in Guildford

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A year after its opening, DSDHA’s special needs school is joined on the site by the practice’s fantastically impressive Christ’s College secondary school

James Gorst works with the lie of the land

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

In a corner of Suffolk increasingly dominated by lavish second homes, James Gorst has created a modest residence in keeping with its context

Photographer Rankin’s Annroy building by Trevor Horne Architects

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A series of doors and windows products have been used in Trevor Horne Architects’ refurbishment of a 1960s office block in Kentish Town, which includes a photographer’s studio, private apartments and a penthouse with nearly frameless views...

Jarmund Vignaes Architects creates In-Between House in Suffolk

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A holiday house for Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project uses a concrete core to give the impression of a floating building

MJP Architects’ Kendrew Quadrange at St John’s College, Oxford

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

MJP Architects’ building uses precast concrete to particular effect in its two spiral staircases

Wahaca Mexican restaurant

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Softroom brings vibrancy and street market chic to three Mexican restaurants

Roll out the Concrete Cloth

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Two former industrial design engineering classmates have developed a Concrete Cloth that redefines the material’s uses

Surface Design Show products

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

A preview of some of the products that will be exhibited at this month’s Surface Design Show

Dry installed underfloor heating at St Mary’s Church, West Sussex

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Lee Evans Partnership solved the problem of installing underfloor heating at a medieval church without using wet trades

Julian Harrap Architects: Royal Society of Chemistry refurbishment project

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

So many refurbishment projects today involve redressing the work of the 1960s

Stacks of work at Eastbury Manor

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Richard Griffiths Associates has completed its third phase of restoration on the Elizabethan estate’s chimney stacks and east stair turret

Jean Nouvel’s One New Change is a City chameleon

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The facade’s pioneering frit glazing helps it blend into its surroundings

AHMM’s Angel of north London

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Allford Hall Monagham Morris’s choice of curtain walling for its Angel building in Islington pays homage to Mies with floor-to-ceiling glazing and monchrome colour scheme