Timothy Soar Photographic Library (2024)

06/03/2024

Architecture Today Award WinnerSnape Maltings Concert Hall by Penoyre & Prasad

Building on ARUP Associate’s pioneering, original work in the late 1960s, Penoyre & Prasad’s reworking of Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Suffolk comprises a series of well-judged and skilfully implemented interventions.

06/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

Westlake Brake by David Sheppard Architects

Westlake Brake is a visually-striking two-storey house located in Heybrook on the South Devon coast. The brief to David Sheppard Architects was for a cost-effective, programmatically simple dwelling that would sit harmoniously in the landscape. Central to the design are a pair of a splayed, 20-metre-long, 500mm-thick rammed earth walls, which utilise 160 tons of earth extracted from the site. The tapered walls deflect the prevalent south westerly winds, while also signalling the entrance to the house.

05/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

Alex Monroe Studio by DSDHA

Jeweller Alex Monroe commissioned DSDHA to restore, and build on top of, an Edwardian single-storey shopfront and basement within the Bermondsey Conservation Area to create a studio and boutique.

05/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

Gasholder Park by Bell Phillips Architects

Bell Phillips’ Gasholder Park is a multi-purpose public space set within the guide frame of a Victorian gasholder located beside Regent’s Canal in London’s King’s Cross. Central to the scheme is 30 metre-diameter, mirror-polished, stainless steel canopy that forms a continuous colonnade around a circular lawn overlooking the canal. The canopy’s 150 steel-fin columns are carefully arranged, with a wider spacing near the canal to invite people in,

05/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

The Macallan Distillery by RSHP

Won in competition by RSHP, The Macallan Distillery in Aberlour is intended to welcome guests and reveal the whisky producer’s production processes, while remaining sensitive to its countryside setting. Cut into the naturally-sloping contours of the site, the design makes reference to ancient Scottish earthworks. Internally, a series of production cells arranged in a linear format with an open-plan layout reveal all stages of the process at once. The cells are reflected above the building in the form of a gently undulating, grass-covered, timber grid-shell roof.

05/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

Talkback by Henley Halebrown and Manalo & White Architects

Henley Halebrown’s offices for Talkback, a successful television production company, included workspace for 250 people, editing facilities, a TV studio and rehearsal space. Located in London’s West End, the project reworked four existing buildings, creating a cloistered multistorey form that was shielded from the street and open to the south. In 2017, the building was sold and converted to the Mandrake Hotel by Manalo & White, but the majority of the architect’s design was retained, attesting to its quality and flexibility.

05/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

Wessex Water Operations Centre by Bennetts Associates

At the end of 2019, Bennetts Associates revisited its iconic Wessex Water Operations Centre in Bath en masse to see how it had performed and share results from nearly 20 years of occupation. The verdict was overwhelmingly positive: the original design and environmental objectives had been more than met and company chairman said he “wouldn’t change a thing.”

04/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

The Standard by Orms

Orms’ bold transformation of London’s largely unloved Camden Town Hall Annexe is a demonstration of how to optimise a building’s long-term future through change of use.

04/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

Cockcroft Building by FBM Architects

In repurposing the 15,000-square metre modernist Cockcroft Building at the University of Brighton, FBM Architects carried out one of the largest retrofits of an occupied academic facility in the UK.

$Architecture Today Award WinnerPark Hill by Studio Egret West and Hawkins\BrownPark Hill...$

03/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

Park Hill by Studio Egret West and Hawkins\Brown

Park Hill in Sheffield is the Stirling Prize-shortlisted regeneration of Europe’s largest Grade II* listed structure. Designed by Studio Egret West and Hawkins\Brown for developer Urban Splash, the project sought to ameliorate nearly 40 years of neglect and misunderstanding, as well as reintegrate the building into its local context and community.

03/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

Burntwood School by AHMM

AHMM’s redevelopment of Burntwood School in Wandsworth, London, comprises six educational buildings-as-pavilions, the retention and refurbishment of the main assembly hall and the swimming pool and gymnasium building (both designed by Leslie Martin), as well as new landscaping. Overall, the scheme has increased the school’s capacity by more than 200 pupils to 2000, in addition to 200 staff.

03/03/2024

Architecture Today Award Winner

Ashmolean Museum by MICA Architects

MICA Architects’ comprehensive redevelopment of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum includes a new entrance from St Giles, a six-storey building with 4,000-square-metres of display space, an education centre, conservation studios, loading bay, and the careful removal of a series of poor-quality Victorian structures located behind the Cockerell building.

02/02/2024

Architecture Today Awards, Buildings that stand the test of time. January/February 2024 issue

29/12/2023

A thought provoking photograph of YY London by from

This was the winning photograph from a photography workshop at YY London, led by The photograph was selected by a discussion with everyone on the course. This was a different photographic response to most people and what was engaging was the way the inside merged with the outside.

We were privileged to have Adam Whitlock from show us around and discuss the building. The host for the day was and the clients for the building are Quadrant and Oaktree Capital

29/08/2022

V&A Cromwell Road

The project deals with key public interfaces – including a new entrance lobby, new ticket / information desk and new WC’s – that are also designed to introduce delight and surprise. The project argues that design is not just something to be put on a pedestal but is part of the everyday activities of life.

The new entrance lobby is formed by three bands of glass tubes arranged with 120mm diameter tubes on the lower level, then halving in size to 60 then 30 on the mid and upper levels. The glass produces optical distortions that accentuate the movement of people as they pass through the entrance. It also captures and projects daylight into the museum

For the WC’s wall panels use rejected jasperware from Wedgewood’s factory in Stoke. Blue, pink, black and grey ceramics were collected, then crushed to make terrazzo panels. This creative use of waste material draws on the V&A’s historic connections to Wedgewood – not only his statue on its facade, but the links to the V&A gallery in Stoke, and the displays of jasperware at South Kensington.

Photographed for Sam Jacob Studio June 2022

15/10/2021

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From my home on Old Street I am fortunate enough to enjoy an incredible view across London. I love taking photographs of landscape and architecture. I have in my mind, in some small way, separated the two. Over the past 18 months I have made images from my balcony, The Shard, The Barbican, One Blackfriars, Centre Point, Golden Lane etc. These are the things I primarily ‘saw’. Until recently. When my eyes changed.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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From here I also get a glimpse of the IMAX cinema roof that I once helped detail. Bryan Avery also asked me to create images of how the undercroft that surrounds the building would feel, with his insistence on showing abundant greenery. As a 21 year old I remember thinking…’this will never work’. I recently walked from the South Bank to Waterloo; the ivy that grows above my head is now thriving and its vines are as thick as my leg. Bryan understood that architecture is a long game and when we make part of the city it is not just for now, it is for the future. The perspective seeing this ivy gave me is something I wish I had understood as a young graduate.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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14/10/2021

Architecture Today : In Practice, Yẹmí Aládérun⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Peckham was the site of my final Diploma project. Under the tutelage of Adam Khan, David Knight and Bernd Schmutz, our unit explored how shopping developments could contribute positively to the life and character of the streets in which they were situated and be defining, socially responsible parts of the city.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In my explorations into city making, I became captivated by the people of Peckham. Getting beneath the skin of the buildings and focusing on understanding the aspirations the vibrant locals had for the places and spaces they lived and worked in was the catalyst for me unearthing what my purpose within our profession could be.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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When it became evident to me that architects were in the vast majority of cases not around the decision-making table, and due to the prevailing procurement system, wielded very little power and authority, I knew that I had to reposition myself to where I could more strongly influence and shape project outcomes. To achieve this, I had to become ‘the client’.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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10/10/2021

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09/10/2021

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"My recent work with VeloCity is focused on issues of isolation and disconnect in the countryside and we have a strategy that we think can help reinvigorate villages and bring back the pubs, schools and shops that they have lost. It calls to mind the film Sleep Furiously, a poetic slow-moving portrait of a rural Welsh community undergoing irrevocable change set to music by the brilliant Aphex Twin."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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08/10/2021

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07/10/2021

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06/10/2021

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"It’s an extraordinary city – full of light, and books. But despite its history of intellectual liberation there remain limitations. I’m an avid urban wanderer and am often frustrated by the high walls and gates of this place. Glorious green pathways and peaceful courtyards are walled off, retained for those who hold literal or metaphorical keys of access."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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04/10/2021

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Walker writes: "As Covid becomes normalised, it is worth reflecting on the way in which the pandemic provided a glimpse of a brighter, more sustainable future, by showing us how we can survive and thrive on less. Less travel, less fuel, less meat, less stuff, less waste, less demolition, and less building."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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01/10/2021

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"It is in our studio where NW3 Community Land Trust’s activities and regular meetings used to take place pre-Covid. I co-founded NW3 CLT back in 2016 and after years of campaigning for affordable housing in NW3, this year we finally succeeded," writes Polescuk.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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"As community-led developers, we have been chosen to partner with Camden Council and deliver an 85% affordable housing development around the corner from our studio. That is unprecedented in our area of high value. We are working with Mole Architects on developing our initial sketches and looking to deliver the first flats in early 2024."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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30/09/2021

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"For 20 years I have enjoyed the balance of living in rural Kent while spending weekdays working in a busy and vibrant east London studio, adopting two separate lives and personas. Lockdown changed this overnight, forcing the merger of my two worlds into one seemingly endless Zoom call and an agoraphobic reaction of not wanting to leave my desk for fear of missing an opportunity to return to the mourned “normal”," writes Puncher. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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29/09/2021

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Tom Holbrook of , who finds London’s Royal Docks are a testbed for an ecological urbanism that accelerates an equitable recovery from COVID and addresses the climate emergency.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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28/09/2021

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"Forestry is my daydream vocation. In moving back to the Highlands I achieved a small part of this alternative reality and now my daily commute takes me through an upland Special Area of Conservation and then down into the birchwood Site of Special Scientific Interest that surrounds our Scottish studio," writes Addy.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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27/09/2021

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Our priority has always been to feel comfortable in our home and through these challenging times we’ve not felt trapped by it. Sitting under the glass there is an ever-changing view, it’s a moving, seasonal landscape – not just the same four walls. It has made things much easier and we have valued our light-filled spaces more than ever," says Jelena Cousins. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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24/09/2021

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