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The 80-apartment Cadix harbour building in Antwerp, part of the regeneration of former docklands, reveals its intricacy across a series of scales, writes Daniel Rosbottom. Photography Karin Borghouts, Stijn Bollaert, Sergison Bates
The scheme, with blocks designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Gort Scott, demonstrates how high-quality, high-density housing can be achieved without building tall, writes Laura Mark. Photography by Paul Riddle
ZCD Architects has drawn on its research into child-friendly cities to create a pocket community focused on spaces to play on an unpromising site in rural Buckinghamshire. Photography by Matt Clayton
This bold, lean, adaptable live/work co-housing development for artists in Barking town centre startles with its uncompromising structural concrete aesthetic, says Fran Williams. Photography by Johan Dehlin, David Grandorge and Ståle Eriksen
David Kohn Architects’ Red House is a knowing dialogue of traditional and modern English domestic architecture, bespoke-fitted to its clients’ needs and lifestyle. Photography by Will Pryce
Part of the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital redevelopment in Liverpool, the centre provides bereavement services for those affected by the death of a child, creating a non-institutional background to grief, writes Rob Wilson
Falconer Chester Hall looked to Manhattan for inspiration for The Lexington, a built-to-rent tower for Moda Living in Liverpool’s northern docks, designed to attract millennials with a transatlantic high-rise community lifestyle vibe, writes Fran Williams
Working with Onion Collective, a local female-led social enterprise, Invisible Studio and Ellis Williams Architects have created East Quay, a harbourside arts centre that seeks to reverse Watchet’s stagnation, writes Marwa El Mubark
Gort Scott has designed two new buildings for St Hilda’s, Oxford, with the Anniversary Building’s orthogonal turret helping it compete with the dreaming spires of the city’s older colleges
A former furniture warehouse in London’s Hoxton had already been converted into offices, but Ian Chalk Architects has made more of the building’s original features to promote the engineer client’s re-use ethos
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