Rob Wilson

Rob Wilson reviews Paris-based Le Penhuel & Associés architectes’ school primer and finds it both a fun-coated bigging-up of a single practice and incredibly enjoyable. Illustrations by Quentin Vijoux

New pieces, including works by Julian Opie and Daniel Silver, have been unveiled as part of this year’s Sculpture in the City in time for London Sculpture Week (21-29 September)

A distinctive, compact house has been adapted, extended and environmentally upgraded for the architect’s own home

The layout of the 100m2 shell, designed in collaboration with Dedraft, is organised around areas for individual and collaborative work and accented with simple material finishes and warm bright colours

Lighthouse Church is designed to provide a welcoming presence and community hub in Heswall and help reinvigorate the town’s high street

Fletcher Priest Architects has comprehensively renovated and extended Marylebone Place, retaining 85 per cent of the existing structure and adding three storeys

The three-storey, semi-detached house has been extended out at ground-floor level to face a rear garden studio that helps unify the site

Hopkins Architects’ new building at the University of Virginia, designed in association with VMDO, incorporates a portico and brick elevations designed to reference the campus’s Thomas Jefferson-designed Rotunda

AOC’s large-scale addition to the National Railway Museum’s Shildon site in County Durham, combines the toughness of an industrial shed with the delicacy of a white cube gallery, says Rob Wilson. Photography by David Grandorge

A 266m-long rail bridge designed by Knight Architects with civil engineers Schüßler-Plan is the world’s first to use carbon hangers