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Welcome to Worthing: Bayside by Allies and Morrison
The mixed-use scheme is a striking addition to the seafront, designed to act as a gateway to the West Sussex coastal town
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Deeper learning: Hall McKnight transforms disused basement for King’s College London
The Quadrangle project turns a disused double basement at King’s College London on the Strand into a modern engineering department
Let’s get slaughtered: pihlmann architects’ ÅBEN Brewery, Copenhagen
Danish practice pihlmann architects has created an immersive brewery visitor experience in a listed former slaughterhouse in Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District
A research lab connecting ecology and construction
With its food and soil research centre at Arras in northern France, Atelier Téqui Architectes has pioneered prefabricated timber frame construction at an industrial scale, says Andrew Ayers. Photography Nicolas da Silva
From ruin to restaurant: Croft 3 by architecture studio fardaa
On the far-flung Isle of Mull, the London-based architect has completed its first rural project, the transformation of a ruined stone byre into a dining hall
Generous is beautiful: Studio Bark’s radical low-impact Para 80 experiment
Nest House, built with Studio Bark’s open-source U-Build timber flatpack system, is small-scale, circular construction which, says Ewa Effiom, throws down a sustainability challenge to architects at large. Photography by Jim Stephenson, Andy Billman and Studio Bark
Timber all the way: The Black & White Building by Waugh Thistleton
When retrofitting a former Shoreditch warehouse proved unviable, The Office Group hired Waugh Thistleton Architects to replace it with what is now central London’s tallest mass timber office structure, the six-storey Black & White Building. How ambitious is its sustainability?
Jonathan Hendry’s Par 3 homes score over major housebuilders’ phoney trad
Jonathan Hendry’s 121-home Par 3 development, built on a disused Lincolnshire golf course, has an admirable richness of incident and spatial complexity
Pitman Tozer tames another tricky site with its Kindred House tower in Croydon
Pitman Tozer has bolstered its reputation for adding value to unpromising sites close to transport infrastructure with Kindred House, a mixed-use tower at the southern edge of Croydon town centre
Page\Park opens up a new gateway to Glasgow’s Gorbals
With its North Gate social housing for the over-55s, PagePark has created a new landmark for Glasgow’s Gorbals and, says Nick Walker, a ‘gem’ of a building. Photography by Nick Kane