Project

A Victorian terrace in Birmingham becomes a living laboratory of ecological retrofit and community co-creation.

Groupwork’s latest project, now rising on Finchley Road, extends the practice’s investigation into structural masonry at an unprecedented scale. The mixed-use residential building comprises three buildings that form a complete stone skeleton of over 400 Larvikite beams and columns.

When architect Jonathan Mizzi took his young family to the Green School in Bali he wasn’t planning on building there. Feeling despondent at the rate of development in his birthplace of Malta where growth was coming at the cost of history, Jonathan needed a change of pace.

Barnaby opened its doors in June 2024 and is pulling in the crowds with a range of beautifully displayed chocolate bars housed in an exquisite interior by architectural practice Built Works, designed in collaboration with Morrisstudio.

Alex de Rijke and his practice dRMM have extolled the virtues of working with wood since their formation in 1995. WorkStack, completed in 2024 and already winning awards, is an admirable example of how dRMM push the boundaries of what is possible with timber construction.

I am an interior designer, born and raised in London who went to Scotland in 1988 to study at Glasgow School of Art. One of the things I first experienced was the subway, known locally…