Nominated for the Construction News Awards Project of the Year (£10m-£50m), St John Bosco Arts College is a bright, bold building, designed to foster creativity at an all girls Catholic comprehensive school in Liverpool. Delivered by VINCI Construction UK, the building nearly failed to get off the ground at all after the Building Schools for the Future plan […]
Nominated for the Building Awards Small Project of the Year 2015, Alfriston Swimming Pool, designed by Duggan Morris Architects, is an imaginative construction. Built to house a new swimming pool for Alfriston School, a state-funded facility for girls aged 11-16 with moderate learning difficulties, this striking creation melds the beautiful with the functional, resulting in an extraordinary space […]
Shortlisted for the 2015 Building Magazine Project of the Year and the Riba Stirling Prize, the London School of Economics’ (LSE) new Saw Swee Hock student centre is a redbrick university building with a twist. Well, more than a twist… This incredible, angular building is the multi-faceted and incredibly textural creation of Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey, working […]
In 2014, this amazing construction narrowly lost out on the Construction News Awards’ Project of the Year (under £1 million) to Maggie’s Cancer Centre in Aberdeen. Built to complement The Globe’s existing open air stage, the Playhouse was designed and constructed using authentic Jacobean plans and craftsmanship. The great William Shakespeare wrote many of his […]
The Building Awards Small Project of the Year 2014 is a modern, innovative design delivered by architects Snøhetta and contractors Robertson Construction. The purpose of this building was absolutely crucial to its design and construction. Maggie’s Cancer Care believe in providing homely, welcoming and peaceful surroundings for both patients and their families, where people can […]
Meet The Hive. Now housing Worcester’s main library, this golden building, completed in 2013, has received the prestigious British Construction Industry (BCI) Sustainability Award and the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Building Performance Award. The first building of its kind in Europe, this Worcester library holds over 12 miles of archive collections, 250,000 […]
There is no denying the rich architectural history of Oxford University. With elements of the university dating back to the 1400s, the historical wealth of this world-famous institution is visible at almost every campus across the city. So what is an architect to do when confronted by a project to design a brand new building […]
Once upon a time Birmingham Central Library, situated just above the inaccurately named “Paradise Forum” in the city centre looked like a multi-story car park. In 2013 the old library was closed and replaced with the stunning Library of Birmingham. The full rebuild swapped the old Brutalist eyesore for an absolute showstopper, described by the […]
