George Kafka

Working with the future residents of the La Borda social housing complex in Barcelona, Lacol arquitectura cooperativa designed a tall CLT building that promotes a low-impact way of life. Photography Lacol, Lluc Miralles, Anna Bosch Miralpeix, and Chopo

This Passivhaus-standard collection of terraced streets in Norwich is the first council housing project ever to be shortlisted for the Stirling, says George Kafka. Film and photography Jim Stephenson

Groupwork + Amin Taha’s retail and residential building for Aria replaces a demolished section of an Islington terrace with a deliberately misremembered concrete reconstruction, writes George Kafka. Photography Tim Soar

The development in Union Street near Bankside contains the London College of Creative Media as well as 10 storeys of residential units

The scheme is the first finished part of a new retirement community located on a historic Kent estate

The East Street Exchange has been completed by We Made That as an extension to East Street library, which the practice has also refurbished

The school, sited in the London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, provides 9,470m2 of learning and social spaces across six storeys

Emerging practice Tikari Works acted as client, architect and main contractor for this new home on an 82m2 site in Dulwich

Conran + Partners has replaced outdated 1970s buildings on the site and freed up land for housing, which helped fund the school’s construction

The £25 million scheme is designed to introduce ’radical new ways’ of teaching to students