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Fereday Pollard & Partners’ Cambridge South station tries to make growth feel softer, greener and more connected. Nick Jones travels there to find out if thoughtful infrastructure can reconcile the city’s booming biomedical economy with its housing and transport pressures
When Fosters took on the redevelopment of a once iconic department store, it saw the key was in its relationship to the street. Sarah Simpkin speaks to architect Patrick Campbell
A small, female-led practice involves local artists in creating vibrant, colourful and stylish live/work units in north London
The £1.3bn transformation of the historic venue in west London has added entertainment, hospitality and workspace to an already congested site. Thomas Lane visits one of the capital’s most complex construction projects
Ben Flatman explores a sensitive reworking of Clerkenwell’s New River Head, where Tim Ronalds Architects weave galleries, education spaces and a cafe into a historic site shaped by four centuries of change
This year’s Serpentine Pavillion by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo of LANZO Atelier is a low-key triumph that melds together Mexican and British references effortlessly and intelligently
Opening in the shadow of the former Olympic Park, V&A East seeks to reframe what a national museum can be. Debika Ray visits the building by O’Donnell + Tuomey to explore its architectural strategies for accessibility, sociability and civic presence
A £5m refurbishment of a former farm building in Hertfordshire embodies the spirit and life of the artist while radically cutting embodied carbon and operational energy use
This 24‑home scheme for Phoenix Community Housing in Lewisham brings contemporary low‑energy design to the Bellingham Estate, echoing its Arts & Crafts origins while meeting today’s demands for family housing
So much heat leaked from Manchester’s grade II listed Pall Mall that it was being used only for storing cardboard boxes. In what is believed to be a first, developer Bruntwood SciTech and architect Sheppard Robson got consent to replace the failing 1960s facade with a thermally upgraded facsimile, demonstrating ...
