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Compton & Edrich Stands Lord’s Cricket Ground / WilkinsonEyre

Luciana Pejić — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000

The new stands form an integral part of the owners of Lord's, Marylebone Cricket Club's (MCC), plans to future-proof the Ground. The stands deliver greatly improved sightlines and an enhanced spectator experience for cricket fans, as well as upgrading capacity, accessibility, and amenities at the country's premier cricket venue, known as the Home of Cricket.

BEEAH Headquarters / Zaha Hadid Architects

Paula Pintos — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:00:00 +0000

BEEAH Group's new headquarters in Sharjah, UAE, was opened on Wednesday, March 30 by His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah. Powered by its solar array and equipped with next-generation technologies for operations at LEED Platinum standards, the new headquarters has been designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) to achieve net-zero emissions and will be the group's management and administrative centre that sets a new benchmark for future workplaces.

Exchange Square Park / DSDHA

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Exchange Square, a public park suspended above the tracks of Liverpool Street Station and within the Broadgate campus, the largest pedestrianized public realm in Central London. The creation of Exchange Square marks a significant milestone in a seven-year collaboration between the studio and their client to successfully transform the public spaces surrounding one of the UK’s busiest stations.

The Bothy and Tùr at Cuningar Loop / jmarchitects

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The Cuningar Loop Forestry Park is a transformational green space project at the heart of the Clyde Gateway, providing approximately 37 acres of unique urban woodland with river frontage and activity spaces, forming the largest urban park in South Lanarkshire. Through The Bothy & Tùr our client aspirations were to further enhance and develop the visitor experience, and encourage greater dwell time and use of the park.

The Burrell Collection Museum / John McAslan + Partners

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 02:00:00 +0000

The Burrell Collection is one of Europe’s finest museums housed in one of the very few Category-A listed post-war Scottish buildings. Its extraordinarily rich collection consists of 9,000 works of fine and decorative arts spanning 6,000 years.

Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center / AUX Architecture

Andreas Luco — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Founded in 1908, Vista Del Mar is a 114-year-old non-profit organization that began service to the community by founding the first cottage-style orphanage in Southern California. Today, they provide a trauma-responsive continuum of services to empower children, youth, and families in Southern California to lead fulfilling lives.

ABBA Arena / Stufish Entertainment Architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:00:00 +0000

STUFISH Entertainment Architects have designed the ABBA Arena– a brand new performance space in East London. The 3000-capacity arena will serve as the home for ABBA’s virtual concert ‘ABBA VOYAGE’, which opened 26 May 2022. The building is set to become a new cultural destination to the city, situated close to Pudding Mill Lane DLR station.

Meta Headquarters / Bennetts Associates

Andreas Luco — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000

11-21 Canal Reach, is the King’s Cross Estate’s largest office building with a capacity for 4,000 Meta employees. The arrival of Meta represents a major milestone and is the start of an expanding presence for the company at King’s Cross. With 425,000 sq ft of grade-A office space, 11-21 Canal Reach is one of the lowest embodied carbon buildings on the estate per sq ft.

Sports Hall King’s Cross / Bennetts Associates

Alexandria Bramley — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The King’s Cross Sports Hall is an all-timber building, designed with multiple lives in mind. It will first serve as a Construction Skills Centre providing local people with access to the job opportunities created by the wider King’s Cross development in central London. As a health and fitness centre, it will provide a two-storey gym and an indoor sports hall designed to meet Sport England standards, which can be used either as four badminton courts, a basketball court, and a volleyball court or a five-a-side football pitch.

Museum of the Home / Wright & Wright Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The project revitalises an assemblage of 300-year old almshouses and gardens, consolidating the historic building with contemporary elements to create a sustainable and engaging public space. Wright & Wright’s remodelling creates 80% more exhibition space, 50% more public space and remedies the building’s deterioration, preserving a valuable local and national heritage asset for decades to come. It also introduces a new entrance directly opposite Hoxton Station, adds two new garden pavilions together with a street-facing cafe, and improves public access, with no increase in the building’s overall energy requirements.

Little Island Park / Heatherwick Studio + MNLA

Paula Pintos — Thu, 27 May 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Little Island is a public park that shelters three new performance venues on the Hudson River. Designed as a haven for people and wildlife, it is a green oasis, held above the water by sculptural planters, and located just a short walk across a gangplank from Manhattan’s Lower West Side.

The Tide / Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Lead) + Neiheiser Argyros

Paula Pintos — Tue, 18 May 2021 02:00:00 +0000

The Tide is a 5-kilometre network of public spaces and gardens embedded into the daily rhythms of Greenwich Peninsula. Both an elevated and at-grade walkway, with programming split across both levels, The Tide activates spaces above and below to provide a layered network of recreation, culture, and wellness. The Tide will stitch together diverse ecosystems, emerging neighbourhoods, and distinct cultural institutions, connecting north to south, east to west, centre to the periphery, and city to river. The Tide is both fast and slow. It is simultaneously a running track, a walking promenade, a series of quiet gardens, and a network of social and cultural hubs.

New Special Exhibitions Gallery / Carmody Groarke

Paula Pintos — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 06:00:00 +0000

The gallery is located on the lower ground floor of the New Warehouse, a Grade II listed structure, dating back to the 1880s. In the coming years, the museum aims to create stronger site-wide orientation and access between the existing historic buildings and spaces and its network of Victorian railway viaducts. The Special Exhibitions Gallery project creates a new visitor route, which links the Lower Yard with the busiest levels of the museum above. It also opens-up public access as a gallery space to this part of the museum’s globally significant site for the first time.

The Hill House Box Museum / Carmody Groarke

María Francisca González — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The Hill House is one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s most significant works, one of Scotland's most acclaimed buildings, and a seminal part of early 20th century European architecture. Built in 1902 for the publisher Walter Blackie and his young family, it is sited in Helensburgh, 30km west of Glasgow, and commands panoramic views south over the River Clyde estuary.

Hardman Square Pavilion / Sheppard Robson

Andreas Luco — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Sheppard Robson has completed a timber-framed pavilion and public space in the successful Spinningfields development in Manchester. The 1,300m² space extends over four floors including a roof terrace and two cantilevers at either side. Located in Hardman Square, The Pavilion provides a permanent venue for the recently opened, high-end food and drink offering, The Ivy; whilst the public realm proposal, influenced by a local historic narrative, creates a complementary garden space, The Field.

Brunel Building / Fletcher Priest Architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000

There can be few areas in London where so many engineering landmarks rub shoulders. Derwent London’s Brunel Building, a 17-storey new-build workplace building designed by Fletcher Priest, overlooks the Grand Union Canal and Paddington Station, the London terminus to the Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great Western Railway, and is next to the site of Brunel’s first-ever bridge. The elevated A40 expressway runs past and the Elizabeth Line, the new cross-London railway, stops near-by. One hundred-year-old cast-iron subway tunnels run beneath the site.

The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children / Stanton Williams

Paula Pintos — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Dedicated to delivering world-class research together with new treatments and therapies, the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children for Great Ormond Street Hospital Foundation Trust, University College London, and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is a pioneering pediatric facility of global significance. Combining leading research and outstanding outpatient care under one roof, Stanton Williams’ state-of-the-art building brings together, for the first time, 500 scientists, clinicians, and academics. Working together in a collaborative environment, they will partner in ground-breaking research: translating it into hope for children across the world.

The Great Hall and Library for the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn / MICA

Andreas Luco — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The Great Hall and Library Project for the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn is the culmination of MICA’s 2014 masterplan for the Inn’s historic estate. The project is comprised of a series of largely discrete proposals that are nevertheless holistic in their resolution of the Inn’s key issues. The project included the sensitive refurbishment of the Grade II* Listed Great Hall & Library and the addition of significant additional floor space through excavation adjacent to the Great Hall (for education and conferencing use) and through the replacement of an existing, lower quality building with a contemporary and complementary extension to the Library’s facilities. Restoration The refurbishment of the Great Hall removes recent poor-quality alterations, restoring many of the building’s heritage features and reinstating the original ceremonial entrance and improving accessibility throughout the building.