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Retirement done differently: Moor’s Nook by Coffey Architects
on 9 January 2019A light-filled, community-focused housing complex for the over-55s in suburban Surrey proposes a new kind of residential scheme for retirees
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Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today — review
on 22 May 2018The V&A Museum of Childhood’s survey of Nordic design for children since 1900 explores how Scandinavian designers have used play and wonder to put children at the heart of the design of homes, cities and communities
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Continuing an architectural journey: Kettle’s Yard by Jamie Fobert Architects
on 4 April 2018Kettle’s Yard, the eccentric museum in Cambridge, has undergone a renovation by Fobert that improves accessibility while complementing the museum's existing Victorian vernacular and mid-century modernism
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Hidden depths: Tate St Ives by Jamie Fobert Architects
on 17 November 2017The initial design by Jamie Fobert Architects for a much-needed extension to Tate St Ives was abandoned after fierce local objection — but the practice was able to address the site again, this time coming up with a design that artfully embeds the extension in the cliff face
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Super modern meets Suffolk vernacular: Wood Farm by Studio RHE
on 10 November 2017In the quiet of the Suffolk countryside a family home has been carved from the footprint of a farmstead and a Second World War hangar site. It has also inspired London-based Studio RHE to develop a new way to address the national housing shortage
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Stanton Williams' Musée d’arts de Nantes breathes life into the French city
on 17 October 2017The Musée d’arts de Nantes has reopened following a €48.8m transformation and extension by London-based practice Stanton Williams that aims to embrace its urban surroundings. It is part of a huge, 30-year push by the city to use culture to reinvent its image, culminating in the annual arts festival Le Voyage à Nantes
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Home away from home: Second Home Lisboa
on 8 September 2017Following the success of their first creative workspace, Second Home Spitalfields in London, entrepreneurs Sam Aldenton and Rohan Silva have opened up shop in Lisbon, drawn by the city’s booming co-working culture and thriving tech scene. Designed by Madrid-based practice SelgasCano, it’s an unconventional office, inspired by biophilia and arranged to maximise serendipitous meetings among its diverse community
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Rethinking the cinema: Chester's Storyhouse by Bennetts Associates
on 24 August 2017An old Odeon cinema in Chester has been brought back to life and reimagined as a new cultural and community centre as part of a long-term transformation of the city's Northgate quarter
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Architecture in blue: Francis Kéré's Serpentine Pavilion
on 18 August 2017Burkina Faso-born and Berlin-based architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has brought his empowering, socially engaged architecture to London in the form of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion. Inspired by the form of a tree, where people like to gather during the day in his home village of Gando, it showcases his belief that architecture has the power to surprise, unite and inspire
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Oxfordshire residence by Richard Meier
on 15 June 2017A gleaming-white new house on its own hill in the Chilterns is an architect’s dream project, and this one has Richard Meier’s name stamped all over it