French architect Anne Lacaton has won the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture in this year’s W Awards, while Palestinian writer and architect Suad Amiry has won the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize
David Kohn Architects completes Modern Art Oxford makeover
David Kohn Architects (DKA) has redesigned the Oxford gallery’s ground and lower floor spaces after winning an invited competition
Shahed Saleem completes timber and faience-faced Docklands café
Shahed Saleem has created a new café on the Isle of Dogs incorporating motifs and materials that draw on the East End’s maritime history
Artform completes two semis on brownfield site in Manchester
Artform Architects has completed adjoining four-bedroom homes in Stretford, taking cues from the local vernacular with buff-brick modelled façades and dormer windows
Loader Monteith completes three-bedroom home in rural Angus
Loader Monteith has integrated the remains of an existing byre to tie a new house in eastern Scotland into its landscape setting
Belsize Architects completes 25 homes on brownfield site in Merton
The scheme sits on an infill corner site overlooking Mitcham Common previously occupied by a scrap-metal dealer and offers a good range of private and shared amenity spaces
Levitt Bernstein completes Newham’s first Passivhaus social housing scheme
The Passivhaus-certified, 100 per cent affordable housing development provides 65 homes around a central courtyard together with a nursery
Corstorphine & Wright designs ‘testbed’ circular-economy HQ building
The Northampton headquarters of Unusual Rigging has a glulam timber frame, uses biogenic and reused materials and produces more energy than it consumes
Heatherwick Studio creates ceramic-clad culture business district in China
The new 155,000m² neighbourhood in Xi’an combines a retail podium, offices, apartments and green spaces with a vertical park
Pitman Tozer’s thoroughly moderne mansion block
For its Bulrush Court affordable homes scheme in the Lower Lea Valley, Pitman Tozer Architects looked for inspiration to Modernist apartment blocks of the 1930s