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Case study: Black Country Living by Napier Clarke Architects
A new visitor centre for the open-air museum in Dudley draws on the forms and materials of the attraction’s historic buildings. Photography by Lorenzo Zandri
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Buttress completes Caernarfon Castle access works
Buttress has completed a three-year programme of works to enhance the visitor experience at Caernarfon Castle
Patalab completes retrofit of mews house in Marylebone
Patalab has completed a project for a young family involving extensive renovation work, including a basement extension and façade remodelling
The planning system just keeps saying no. We need a total overhaul
The planning system is a negative force, persistently blocking much-needed homes and other development. Michael Gove’s reforms must go much further, says Daniel Leon
Moll Architects completes ‘hyperlocal’ terraced house extension
Moll Architects has completed an extension in Lambeth that reuses original yellow London stock brick as cladding and is fitted with bespoke furniture made by local craftsmen
Levitt Bernstein completes UAL Wimbledon College of Arts campus refit
Levitt Bernstein has completed the £10 million reworking and ‘rationalisation’ of the UAL College of Arts campus in Wimbledon
The second staircase is a knee-jerk reaction to Grenfell
Michael Gove’s mandating of a second stair in residential buildings above 18m is just the latest sign that the real lessons of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and Dame Judith Hackitt are falling on deaf ears, argues José Torero
Case study: Roundhouse Works by Paddy Dillon, Reed Watts Architects and Allies and Morrison
Recycled railway sleepers are one of the elements used to form this creative centre for young people, part of the Roundhouse’s creative campus in London’s Chalk Farm. Photography by Fred Howarth
Cathie Curran completes hempcrete-walled mews house in east London
Cathie Curran has completed a three-storey family house arranged as overlapping and interconnected spaces that are reflected in its gridded terracotta and Accoya wood façade
Intervention Architecture completes arched extension in Birmingham
Wisteria House in Birmingham by local practice Intervention Architecture is a two-storey side extension with double-height void, designed for future trailing of wisteria to wrap around its façades