Isabelle Priest

Shoreline Crescent, a mixed apartment and townhouse scheme, is the first phase of a wider development of seven crescent blocks, continuing the Kent town’s regeneration

Community facilities and housing scheme in Somers Town is a regenerative, transformative intervention that brings much needed homes and active space to an overcrowded corner of inner London

Snug Architects’ deliberately domestic alternative to conventional women’s prisons in Southampton shows a carefulness that makes sense for society

Lucent still looks like 13 buildings despite the single space they enclose, expanding and enriching the streetscape in the heart of London’s West End

Sandy Rendel Architects’ new house on the South Downs is elegant and liveable – and could have been bigger

With the number of people living with dementia in the UK set to exceed a million, WGP is hoping to help tackle the dearth of high-quality care homes with a recently completed development in Southwark and two more in planning in Northamptonshire and Suffolk

Dutch practice MVRDV has retrofitted a 1980s huge concrete brutalist cone, built as a monument to former dictator Enver Hoxha, transforming it into a centre for tech education that embodies the Albanian capital’s changing image

The longlisted schemes, ranging from urban renewal and social enterprise to education and affordable housing, provide prime examples of architects and clients showing they care

Accounts of Wilkinson Eyre’s refit of Battersea Power Station and a revived lido in Guernsey are among the most-read buildings articles of the past year

Unknown Works’ Energy Revolution Gallery for the Science Museum encapsulates the subject matter employing low carbon construction and both reused and reusable materials