Fran Williams

The 770m² new-build crematorium includes a separate pavilion with memorial facilities and chapel for up to 140 people, alongside spaces for crematory and administration

The Five Villages Hall is a central hub serving a community of five semi-rural villages a few miles north of Chester

An abandoned 1939 concrete structure in Ringstead on the Jurassic Coast has been reworked into a 76m² subterranean holiday home

Levitt Bernstein has completed the £10 million reworking and ‘rationalisation’ of the UAL College of Arts campus in Wimbledon

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

Thirty factory-built homes at Wirral Waters form the first phase of Peel L&P’s waterside community on Birkenhead’s historic docks

James Gorst Architects has completed a 237m² double-height timber frame community hall in Framlingham, rural Suffolk

Timber Development UK, working with Waugh Thistleton Architects, has released Timber Typologies, a free downloadable ‘beginner’s guide’ for various timber solutions. Fran Williams speaks to Waugh Thistleton associate Alastair Ogle to find out what it’s all about

Fran Williams visits Herzog and de Meuron’s first London exhibition for almost 20 years, which opened last Friday at the Royal Academy

Fran Williams and Rob Wilson look at notable recent and ongoing schemes in and around Glasgow