Jay Merrick

SHR’s Leonardo Hotel in Manchester provides a distinctive bold and sculpted contribution to a visually chaotic street scene, says Jay Merrick

A return visit to Cartwright Pickard’s first completed project – Murray Grove, now known as Shepherdess Walk – confirms it has stood the test of time as an exemplar of ‘modern methods of construction’

Daykin Marshall’s interventions at the historic Ashridge Estate in Devon have delivered environmental improvements while enhancing its economic viability

BUILDING STUDY: The £68 million renovation of Glasgow’s Burrell Collection involves a major reconfiguration that will continue to divide opinion, says Jay Merrick, but the essential spirit of the original – ‘mingling art with nature’ – remains intact.

Jay Merrick visits Kilburn Nightingale Architects extension St Paul’s Cathedral School in central London, featuring an artful renovation and addition linking the 1690s to the 1960s. Photography by Nick Kane

A studied miscellany of materials and styles add performance spaces and a new civic presence to a prep school near Newbury, writes Jay Merrick.

Dow Jones has combined the restoration of a west London church with the addition of a new building opening it up to community uses, writes Jay Merrick. Photography Anthony Coleman

The Cambridge scheme puts its residents’ wellbeing at the heart of building design, writes Jay Merrick.  Photography David Butler

Taking an Orkney cliff face as its inspiration, Kuma’s museum is an engrossing focal point of Dundee’s regeneration, writes Jay Merrick.  Photography Jim Stephenson, Hufton + Crow

The chapels’ rammed-earth structures combine monumental and poetic qualities, writes Jay Merrick. Film and photography by Jim Stephenson