The 16,400m2 Borough Yards development is based around a new public realm of pedestrian lanes and yard-like spaces linking the Thames to Borough Market, focused around a repurposed Victorian brick arched railway viaduct
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Alison Brooks’ ‘extraordinary’ farmhouse extension wins RIBA House of the Year
Alison Brooks Architects’ Windward House has followed up its Manser Medal victory by scooping the RIBA House of the Year award
BDP-designed Elizabeth Line station in Whitechapel opens
The station, which Crossrail has handed over to Transport for London, sits within the Whitechapel Market Conservation area and incorporates the reinstated original entrance
BDP completes net-zero operational carbon luxury hotel in Dublin
The 137-room, nine-floor hotel in the city centre uses 100 per cent renewable energy, complying with the World Green Building Council’s definition of ‘net zero operational carbon’ without the need to purchase carbon offsets
PLP completes 43-storey mixed-use City tower incorporating new public space
The One Bishopsgate Plaza development also includes a refurbished and extended Victorian building incorporating restaurant, office and retail space, organised around the new public square on Bishopsgate
Squire and Partners completes 13,600sqm mixed-use development in west London
Squire and Partners has completed a scheme comprising four blocks providing 51 high-end residential apartments and 14 Peabody-managed affordable homes as well as leisure facilities, ground-floor retail, a new office building and landscaped public courtyard
Henley Halebrown wins Design of the Year in AJ Architecture Awards 2021
Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road, a combined school and residential scheme by Henley Halebrown, has won the Design of the Year prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards
Alison Brooks wins 2021 Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year
Windward House by Alison Brooks Architects has won the Manser Medal for the best completed house in the UK, part of the AJ Architecture Awards
Henley Halebrown school/housing wins Mixed Use category in AJ Architecture Awards 2021
Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road by Henley Halebrown has won the Mixed Use prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards
Maccreanor Lavington wins School category in AJ Architecture Awards 2021
A new refectory for Ibstock Place School, Roehampton, by Maccreanor Lavington has won the School prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards