‘The Box’ is a £40 million project creating a new consolidated archive for the city and museum
FaulknerBrowns completes building with asymmetric pyramidal roof for Durham University
The 8,000m² Lower Mountjoy Teaching and Learning Centre is formed of 11 modules which break down its volume on a sensitive site
CF Møller completes tallest totally timber housing block in Sweden
The nine-storey building, which sits next to Lake Mälaren in Västerås, uses mechanical joints with screws throughout, so it can be taken apart at the end of its life and its materials recycled
Fraser Brown MacKenna science block opens at University of East Anglia
The £20 million facility at the western end of UEA’s parkland campus provides flexible undergraduate teaching laboratories plus more informal teaching space
Within Reach: Pitman Tozer completes Thamesmead housing scheme
The Reach, a low-rise scheme with gallery access, is the first of many new homes that Peabody plans for its regeneration of Thamesmead, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Kilian O’Sullivan
Crematorium completed by Haverstock in Aylesbury
The design of Bierton Crematorium unifies the two key programmatic elements of chapel and crematorium through the use of single-storey canopies and a porte-cochère
Hopkins Architects completes interpretation centre in Sharjah with ‘urchin’-inspired shape
The Buhais Geology Park Interpretive Centre is sited on a former sea-bed in a region of geological and prehistoric significance in the centre of the UAE
‘Students demand sustainability’ – Haworth Tompkins’ deep retrofit of Kingston School of Art
An upgrade and extension of Kingston School of Art’s 1970s Mill Street Building rationalises its inefficiencies and idiosyncrasies while retaining its artistic spirit, says Rob Wilson. Photography by Philip Vile
Foster + Partners’ Principal Place development in Shoreditch completes
Principal Tower, the final piece of the Principal Place mixed-use scheme on the edge of the City of London, has completed
Page\Park reveals £13.4 million Leeds Playhouse revamp
An extension provides a coloured ceramic ‘face’, while internally theatre spaces have been reworked