1. City Nature Challenge, Pure Historical past Museum, London SW7J&L Gibbons and Feilden FowlesA magical embodiment of evolution and geological time, given spatial and bodily kind by rocks, vegetation and buildings. The remaking of the entrance backyard of the nation’s second hottest customer attraction additionally offers such helpful issues as a restaurant, a studying centre and improved queueing and entry. Instructional, pleasing, unique.
2. n2 workplace constructing, London SW1Lynch ArchitectsThe apply led by serious-minded architect Patrick Lynch produced two distinctive buildings this 12 months in Victoria, London: an extension to a coroner’s court docket and a brand new workplace constructing. The latter, poised above broad colonnades of sturdy V-shaped struts, with a miniature glade by muf structure/artwork, is beneficiant, good-looking and, regardless of its industrial use, public-spirited.
3. New studio, Hospitalfield Arts, ArbroathCaruso St JohnPart of a programme of reviving an arts centre in an eccentric Victorian fortress and its grounds, it is a playful, expressive construction during which enjoyable is had, within the custom of Arts and Crafts structure, with eaves, gutters, cladding and different fundamentals of constructing.
4. Paddington CubeRenzo Piano Constructing WorkshopFrom the architect (and the property firm, Sellar) who introduced us the Shard. A factor of bulk made crisp and chic with up to date variations of the ferrous engineering that constructed the well-known station subsequent door.
5. Performing Arts Centre, Brighton CollegekrftA wealthy array of inner areas, together with a 400-seat theatre, contained inside an arresting shell of scooped brickwork and gravity-questioning overhangs. By the up-and-coming Amsterdam-based apply krft.
