Designed by Terry Farrell and Partners, Great North Museum for Newcastle’s premier natural history museum is located in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The GNM in Newcastle represents a newly opened and successful £26m (part HLF funded) museum, bringing together the North East’s premier collections of archaeology, natural history and geology. The project sits within Farrells Cultural Quarter Masterplan occupying a prominent site on the Great North Road. Farrells brief was to address its setting in relation to the city, limited exhibition space, reinterpret a varied collection and unsuitable environmental conditions. Read more »

The Studio Theatre and Sixth Form Centre was designed by Paul Vick Architects is located in Brentford, United Kingdom. Brentford School for Girls (BSfG) is a state school with approximately 900 girls, 50 different ethnic groups many of whom are first generation from abroad and has 50 languages spoken. The experience of a first generation pupil to schooling in the UK is not to be underestimated. This is clearly a school transforming lives and one that is itself transforming. The school recently managed to have its first students go to Oxbridge and for the first time, in 2009, had a waiting list for places. Not surprisingly perhaps for this change to happen it has developed two curricular Specialisms both related to communication and engagement: one in Arts & Media and the other in ICT. The Head’s brief was clear: requiring a building that would inspire students to want to learn and allow them to engage with the content provided by the teaching. From a content point of view, the building was to support its curricular Specialisms outlined above. A studio theatre and sixth form centre with ICT room were to be provided. Read more »

The Fitzrovia Apartments, a luxury metropolitan concept for urban people who value the urban environment in London, United Kingdom, is the first phase of a new residential and healthcare scheme. Phase one of the Fitzrovia development includes 26 individually designed private and 14 social housing apartments. The scheme is being developed on one of London’s historic hospital sites and includes a state-of-the-art facility for the new Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. The Fitzrovia Apartments building that was designed by HOK International is punctuated by vertical bay windows fabricated from anodised aluminium and glass. Read more »

Designed by Allan Murray Architects, the XXIII Ravelston Terrace is a modern contemporary residential building with 59 apartments, penthouses and duplexes as well as large town houses that located in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. The XXIII Ravelston Terrace that the prize-winning residence as the Residential Bronze Award at the 2009 Roses Design Awards is transformed from a 1970′s concrete frame and brick frame office block building was originally designed by Roland Wedgwood Architects to be Croythorn House in Edinburgh upon request from Sundial Properties and Kilmartin Property Group. The property had one saving grace, but located on the ridge of a hill with spectacular views across the city possibly only eclipsed by the views from Edinburgh Castle itself. Read more »

The Biochemistry Department at the University of Oxford in Oxford, United Kingdom was designed by Hawkins Brown architects is the largest in the UK and internationally renowned for research in the understanding of DNA, cell growth and immunity. The Biochemistry Building achieves a new ethos of “interdisciplinary working” where the exchange of ideas is promoted in a large collective and connective environment. At the same time researchers have the space to concentrate on intense work in highly serviced laboratories. Previously the department’s scientists have had to conduct research in outmoded buildings, spread across the Science Area in the centre of Oxford. Read more »