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Surman Weston’s new take on the terrace
With its first self-build project, Surman Weston has created a strikingly innovative and energy-efficient home that reinvents the terraced house
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Urban Oasis: Rivington Street Studio’s secondary school at Silvertown
Amid the regeneration of east London’s docklands, the practice has built Oasis Academy Silvertown, a building on an incredibly small site that nevertheless achieves a civic presence, says Fran Williams. Photography by Rachel Ferriman
In nature’s embrace: Loader Monteith’s woodland school for vulnerable teenagers
With their Learning Hub for the Harmeny Education Trust, Loader Monteith and Studio SJM have created a supportive woodland environment for teenagers who struggle with mainstream education, writes Chloe Spiby Loh.
Going full circle: new housing on former Berlin brewery
A mixed-use retrofit project in Berlin takes truly circular planning and construction a step further
Meridian lines: Urban Projects Bureau housing at Meridian Water
With Brambling House, Urban Projects Bureau has created a hybrid terrace/mansion block form to stitch the wider Meridian Water development into its neighbourhood
Greenhouse effect: Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture’s Bordeaux housing
At the Bastide Niel eco-district in Bordeaux, Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture has created Ekko, an innovative apartment block that takes the winter garden to extremes
Child Graddon Lewis and the suddenly affordable homes
Child Graddon Lewis’s consented scheme at Harrow Road changed from 50 per cent private sale to 100 per cent affordable rent following a change of administration at Westminster City Council
A little extra help: The Harriet Hardy Extra Care Centre by Mæ
Mæ has delivered an impressive multifunctional block with generous proportions and support facilities for older residents at Southwark Council’s contentious Aylesbury Estate redevelopment. Photography by Tim Crocker
Witherford Watson Mann rethinks the inner-city almshouse
Appleby Blue sheltered housing is an exemplar of what can be achieved when public, private and voluntary sectors come together and imagination, social awareness and design flair coincide
Loving alms: Dovehouse Court later living by Mole Architects
Mole Architects’ flexible and thoughtful 15-home Dovehouse Court later-living scheme in Cambridgeshire provides a welcome alternative to the stigmatising nature of some almshouses