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Introducing the MacEwen Award 2025 shortlist

An inspiring collection of 12 projects make up this year’s MacEwen Award shortlist, ranging from a floating events venue to a woodland retreat centred around a repurposed military parachute, but all embodying the concept of architecture for the common good

14 January 2025

  1. Culture

The eloquent dereliction of Madeley Court

In his evocative image of the ruinous gatehouse of this 16th-century Shropshire mansion, Edwin Smith captures grace, decline, and signs of life

8 January 2025

  1. Culture

Leader: Sky's the limit

Even in the depths of winter, views of the sky can raise our spirits. Do architects always make the most of it, wonders Eleanor Young

10 January 2025

House extensions 2024

Studio KAP’s Cor-Ten steel addition to a hillside house in Argyll is designed to create visual links with its striking rural setting

Studio KAP’s addition to a house in Argyll creates visual links with its striking rural setting

There’s no clutter to be seen in Prewett Bizley’s serene, airy The Orchards in Somerset – the stuff of life is all stowed away, allowing the space to flow

Serenity depends on putting it all away

Architecture for London’s rear extension for a house in a conservation area uses existing walls to create a sense of rhythm with brick pillars surrounding the dining space

Architecture for London’s extension creates a sense of rhythm through its use of brick

Emil Eve Architects’ scheme adds a side extension in keeping with the existing building and a more modern three-volume full-width rear extension, explains practice founder Emma Perkin

A three-volume full-width rear extension is influenced by Nordic and Japanese traditions

N4 Architecture talks about the design of its Birch Pavilion, which provides a space for work, relaxation and listening to music

N4 Architecture’s Birch Pavilion provides a space for work, relaxation and listening to music

Roofing and cladding

Zinc is the material of choice for three innovative projects, including a Stirling Prize winner

Zinc is the material of choice for three innovative projects

Wood and natural slate cladding wrap up a modern new-build that is completely at home in its Loire Valley setting

A modern new-build completely at home in its Loire Valley setting

This solar PV solution provides fully integrated sustainable electricity generation without compromising aesthetics

Integrated solar PV electricity generation can look good too

These A1/A2 fire rated architectural panels for new-build and recladding projects are available as vibrant or natural-looking designs in aluminium, fibre cement or extruded porcelain

A1/A2 fire rated panels in aluminium, fibre cement and extruded porcelain

Be mindful of the entire roof build-up - not just the vegetation layer - when looking to achieve an environmentally friendly solution

It's the entire roof build-up that's important - not just the vegetation

Opportunities Hub: Contests worth the work

Design a flexible exhibition space, deliver transformational change as part of an energy-efficiency framework, restore the farmstead of a Scottish poet - some of the latest architecture contracts and competitions from across the industry

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Woods Bagot with John McAslan + Partners, Central Station, Sydney Metro, Sydney, 2024.
  1. Buildings

Pride of place: Sydney’s new metro stations

In a city that seldom celebrates its everyday architecture, new stations by UK architects Fosters, Grimshaw and McAslans, along with Australian practice Woods Bagot, have provoked public joy at their sheer grandeur, writes Sydney-based critic Elizabeth Farrelly

29 October 2024

Terabe Guest House: floating on a piloti forest

Japanese architect Tomoaki Uno has created a coastal home and workplace that explores the timeless harmony between man and nature

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