Carmarthenshire farmstead reborn as striking modern home shortlisted for top Welsh architecture award

Pantybara — a bold, triangular‑plan family home created by Rural Office — is one of six projects in the running for the RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards 2026, placing the rural Carmarthenshire build among the most celebrated new designs in the country this year.

A farmstead beyond saving — rebuilt from the ground up

The original farmhouse on the site had deteriorated so badly it had to be demolished. But almost nothing went to waste. According to Rural Office, tonnes of stone were salvaged and reused to form new garden walls, keeping the spirit of the old farmstead alive in the landscape.

The new home, designed for architect Niall Maxwell, his wife Helen and their two sons, takes a completely different approach to the traditional four‑square farmhouse it replaces. Instead, Pantybara adopts a striking triangular footprint, shaped to shelter the house from the prevailing wind and open up long views across the valley.

Each side of the building faces a different garden — a courtyard to the north, terraces to the west, and a pond and woodland garden to the south — giving the home a sense of shifting character as you move around it.

A clever façade that hides a surprise

From the front, Pantybara plays a clever architectural trick. The façade nods to the gentrified Georgian farmhouses found across rural Wales. But walk around the corner and a 45‑degree cut reveals a smaller, more modest dwelling behind — a deliberate contrast that Rural Office describes as a “conceit”.

The new home also connects to a former milking parlour, now transformed into a hall, guest wing and utility spaces. Its long, low form echoes the traditional Welsh ty hir, blending domestic life with the site’s agricultural past.

Inside, the house celebrates Welsh craftsmanship and folklore. There are threshold markings intended to ward off evil spirits, woven fire surrounds inspired by old bwthyn wicker hoods, and varied ceiling pitches that create a sense of “buildings within a building”.

A standout Welsh project in a strong national shortlist

Pantybara is the only Carmarthenshire project shortlisted this year. The full RSAW list includes:

• Alma House, Monmouthshire
• Iorwerth Jones affordable homes, Cardiff
• Porthmadog House, Gwynedd
• Severn View Park care home, Monmouthshire
• St Beuno’s Jesuit Spirituality Centre, Denbighshire

RSAW jury chair Martin Hall said the shortlisted buildings “exemplify the talent shown by their architects and construction teams”, adding that the projects range from “important social needs in elder care and housing” to “virtuosity in the design of one‑off dwellings”.

What happens next

All shortlisted buildings will now be visited by a regional jury, with winners announced later this spring. Successful projects will then be considered for UK‑wide RIBA awards, including the prestigious RIBA National Awards — the shortlist from which the Stirling Prize, the UK’s top architecture honour, is drawn.

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"The annual quest for a national Best in Show seems increasingly problematic"

It was the right choice to give Grafton Architects' Kingston University London this year's Stirling Prize, says Catherine Slessor, but the award is still struggling to find its purpose.

So Grafton Architects have now collected the set. Following the PritzkerArchitecture Prize and RIBA Gold Medal, the 2021 Stirling Prize has been awarded to the Town House at Kingston University London, one of the darker horses on a shortlist of frankly bewildering range and scale, encompassing everything from a featherlight wisp of a bridge to an arboreal mosque.

Grafton was certainly not the bookies' favourite – that dubious distinction went to Marks Barfield's Cambridge mosque. But in resisting the more "televisual" blandishments of Amin Taha's Clerkenwell cliff face, the wispy Tintagel bridge and the arboreal mosque, this year's Stirling jury, headed by Norman Foster - who knows a thing or two about arboreal structures – made the right choice.

Kingston feels more restrained and suburban, in keeping with its peripheral London locale

Kingston forms part of a remarkable series of buildings Grafton have designed for educational establishment from Milan to Toulouse. Arguably it's one of their more understated projects, compared with the swagger and heft of Lima's University of Technology and Engineering, with its vertiginous cat's cradle of balconies, beams and floor slabs, and the Marshall Institute for the London School of Economics, currently erupting from the south-west corner of Lincoln's Inn Fields.

It too has an arboreal structure inspired by the 17th-century stone trees in the fan-vaulted undercroft of nearby Lincoln's Inn Chapel.

By contrast, Kingston feels more restrained and suburban, in keeping with its peripheral London locale, yet still packs a visual and experiential punch with its arrangement of loggias mediating between street and building, sheltering and animating the ground plane in a gesture of civic generosity.

Grafton is greatly drawn to the idea of spatial and civic generosity, which formed the theme of their 2018 Venice Biennale under the nebulous auspices of Freespace, described as a "means of taking the emphasis off architecture as object", according to partner Yvonne Farrell.

[This] seems like the kind of building that is needed now more than ever as things falteringly get back to "normal

Yet curating a Venice Biennale is a habitually poisoned chalice and the critical consensus was that Farrell and Shelley McNamara were better architects than curators. And so it has proved.

After a pandemic year in which students have had a particularly torrid time, marooned in their bedrooms, many suffering from poor mental health, Kingston's basic ambition to provide a place in which to study, meet and hang out, while enjoying views of the city and each other seems like the kind of building that is needed now more than ever as things falteringly get back to "normal".

It is architecture as an armature for activities and interaction, civically thoughtful, formally lucid, soundly constructed, all underscored up by a concern for sustainability both now and in the long term. Though that might sound dull, it's far from it. To date, it has just lacked the catalysing presence of its student and staff users, finally out of their bedrooms and back together in real, tangible space.

Also giving expression to a social and community programme was the Cambridge mosque, but while the florid curlicues of its structure are undeniably delightful, demonstrating the expressive potential of timber, it nonetheless felt architecturally overwrought.

Carmody Groarke's collection of glum sheds in the Lake District struck a chord with readers of the Architects' Journal, who voted it their favourite, but the same practice's more workaday structure to protect Mackintosh's Hill House while it dries out, raising discussion of how to simultaneously conserve heritage while reframing it for public consumption, was surely a more compelling project.

The wispy Tintagel bridge also had its fans – and who can forget that the Millennium Bridge in Gateshead was a shock winner in 2002 – but despite being more elegant than Wilkinson Eyre's clumpy quasi-Calatrava effort, the nagging question still remains about whether a bridge can be a building. And the answer still probably has to be "no".

Which leaves the two residential projects. At one extreme was Stanton Williams' much needed decent-but-unremarkable housing for key workers; at the other, Amin Taha's manorial stone townhouse, better known for its planning imbroglio than its architecture.

Neither had the elusive imprimatur of a Stirling winner, though Peter Barber's McGrath Road scheme, which scooped the Neave Brown Award for housing, seemed like a scandalous omission from the shortlist.

Similar arts awards have been grappling very publicly with issues of relevance, diversity and purpose

Beamed live and direct from Coventry Cathedral as part of the City of Culture festivities – the phoenix metaphor was also inescapable – the awards ceremony itself was an attempt to pick up where we left off 18 months ago, with 2020 consigned to pandemic history and the RIBA awards juggernaut seemingly back on track, with table sales and a champagne sponsor.

But with the Stirling now 25 years old, the idea of the annual quest for a national "Best in Show" seems increasingly problematic. Similar arts awards – the Booker and the Turner, on which the Stirling was templated – have been grappling very publicly with issues of relevance, diversity and purpose.

The Stirling dial is being moved slightly, with the stipulation that buildings must now be in occupation for two years, rather than fresh off the catwalk, enabling, in theory, a more nuanced evaluation, but like all architectural awards programmes, it still treads a fine line between publicly championing design and being a money-making enterprise.

Grafton's win chimed with a sense of reset and responsibility

Entry to the 2022 RIBA Awards costs between £100 and £700, depending on project contract value, with the carrot and stick inducement that as well as the champagne moment of winning, a track record of awards success is seen as crucial to a practice attracting clients and getting work.

Beyond the incestuous parameters of the profession, awards such as the Stirling also reflect the wider national mood.

And in this at least, Grafton's win chimed with a sense of reset and responsibility, as architects confront not only a post-pandemic milieu, but more urgent existential threats such as the climate emergency and tower block cladding scandal. Hopefully, this sense can prevail beyond the froth of awards season. But once the champagne sponsor has packed up its tent, I wouldn't want to bet on it.

Catherine Slessor is an architecture editor, writer and critic. She is the president of architectural charity the20th Century Society and former editor of UK magazine The Architectural Review.

Photography is byDennis Gilbert.

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Kingston University London – Town House by Grafton Architects wins 2021 Stirling Prize

The Kingston University London – Town House designed by RIBA Gold Medal-winning studio Grafton Architects has won this year's Stirling Prize.

Described by the RIBA Award judges as "high quality at every scale", the six-storey Town House in Kingston upon Thames was designed to act as "the university's front door".

The building was a surprise winner of the annual award for the UK's best building, with Marks Barfield's Cambridge Mosque the bookmakers favourite to win.

Top: Kingston University London – Town House has won the 2021 Stirling Prize. Above: a long colonnade runs along the street facade

The building contains the university's main library and archive, as well as a theatre, dance studios, teaching spaces and cafes.

It is fronted by a distinctive, 200-metre-long, multi-level colonnade made from reconstituted stone to recall the facade of the neighbouring Surrey County Council building.

The ground floor contains a theatre. Photo by Ed Reeve

"Conceptually, the building exploits two key devices: the colonnade and the courtyard," said the RIBA Award judges.

"Wrapping the building in a tall colonnade gives it presence on the street, successfully balancing the need to make a landmark statement with the wider need to respond respectfully in size and scale to its context."

The building is arranged around a ceremonial staircase

The 9,400-square-metre building is arranged around a statement staircase that rises to the top of the building and a series of large open communal spaces. Grafton Architects designed the building to be a welcoming, homely space for students.

"We imagined a place where students would feel at home," said Grafton Architects. "This building is about people, interaction, light, possibilities."

"It is about connecting to the community, the passer-by, an invitation to cross the threshold; a three-dimensional framework with layers of silence and layers of sound. Space, volume and light are the organisers," the studio continued.

"The building edges are not boundaries but active gathering spaces, terraces, galleries. Being outside under the big sky is always just a few steps away."

It was designed to make students feel at home

British architect Norman Foster, who was head of the Stirling Prize jury, described the building as "the future of education".

It is Grafton Architects' first Stirling Prize win after the medical school at University of Limerick was shortlisted in 2013. The award is the latest recognition for Grafton founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, who were recently awarded the 2020 RIBA Gold Medal and the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

RIBA's Stirling Prize has been awarded annually since 1996, with the exception of last year when it was delayed due to coronavirus, to buildings deemed to have made the most significant impact to British architecture.

In 2019, the last year the prize was awarded, Mikhail Riches' Goldsmith Street social housing won, while in 2018 it was awarded to Foster + Partners' Bloomberg HQ.

Photography is byDennis Gilbert unless stated.

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Grafton's Stirling Prize-winning Town House is "the future of education" says Norman Foster

British architect Norman Foster has praised Grafton Architects' Stirling Prize-winning Kingston University London – Town House as a "progressive new model for higher education".

Foster, who was head of the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize jury, stated that the building sets the benchmark for future university buildings in the UK.

"In this highly original work of architecture, quiet reading, loud performance, research and learning, can delightfully co-exist," said Foster + Partners founder Foster.

"That is no mean feat. Education must be our future – and this must be the future of education."

Top: Kingston University London – Town House has won this year's Stirling Prize. Above: Norman Foster was head of the jury

Kingston University London – Town House was named the winner of this year's Stirling Prize in a ceremony that took place today.

Fronted by a distinctive colonnade, the multi-purpose building contains a library and archive for Kingston University London along with a theatre space, dance studios, cafes and classrooms.

The university has a series of open, communal spaces. Photo is by Ed Reeve

"Kingston University Town House is a theatre for life – a warehouse of ideas," continued Foster.

"It seamlessly brings together student and town communities, creating a progressive new model for higher education, well deserving of international acclaim and attention."

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Grafton Architects' Kingston University London – Town House, which is the studio's first building in the UK, won this year's Stirling Prize from a shortlist that contained a mosque and a housing development in Cambridge, a bridge in Cornwall, a museum in the Lake District and a housing block in London.

It is the first time the studio has won the Stirling Prize, although its medical school at the University of Limerick was shortlisted in 2013.

The studio was recently awarded the 2020 RIBA Gold Medal, while its founder Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara won the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Photography is byDennis Gilbert unless stated.

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RIBA Stirling Prize 2021 shortlist revealed

The RIBA has revealed the shortlist for this year's Stirling Prize, with Amin Taha's 15 Clerkenwell Close a surprise addition to the list.

The six-strong shortlist includes a bridge in Cornwall, a mosque and a housing development in Cambridge, a university building in Kingston and a museum in the Lake District – all projects that won RIBA National Awards this year.

These projects are joined by the 15 Clerkenwell Close housing development designed by Taha's studio Groupwork, which won a RIBA National Award in 2018.

The surprise addition to the shortlist occurred due to a long-running planning dispute about the 15 Clerkenwell Close project that threatened it with demolition. This meant that it was not considered for the Stirling Prize in the year it won a National Award.

Above and top: 15 Clerkenwell Close has been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize three years after it won a RIBA Award. Photo is by Tim Soar

Described by the Stirling Prize jury as an "astonishing architectural triumph", 15 Clerkenwell Close was included after the planning issues were resolved in 2019. Last year the Stirling Prize wasn't awarded due to the coronavirus pandemic.

It is the second time that Groupwork has been on the list after its Barrett's Grove cross-laminated timber housing scheme was shortlisted in 2017.

Stanton Williams is the only shortlisted studio to have previously won the award after its Sainsbury Laboratory won the prize in 2012.

This year it was shortlisted for its Key Worker Housing project in Cambridge. Also in the city, Marks Barfield Architects' Cambridge Central Mosque is on the shortlist.

The 2021 shortlist is completed by the Town House academic building by Grafton Architects at Kingston University, Windermere Jetty Museum in the Lake District by Carmody Groarke and Tintagel Castle Footbridge in Cornwall by Ney & Partners and William Matthews Associates.

Cambridge Central Mosque is also on the shortlist

"The 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist demonstrates the innovation and ambition that lies at the heart of exceptional architecture," said RIBA president Simon Alford.

"From a busy city mosque in Cambridge to a remote coastal bridge in Cornwall, the six projects vary tremendously in their location and use – but they are united in their ingenuity and creativity, their consideration of their local environment and historical context, and their use of high-quality materials," he continued.

"In their architects' attention to detail, and their clients' tenacity and commitment, these six projects set themselves apart."

RIBA's Stirling Prize has been awarded annually, with the exception of last year, since 1996 to buildings deemed to have made the most significant impact on British architecture. This year's winner will be announced on 14 October.

Read on for edited citations from the Stirling Prize jury:

15 Clerkenwell Close by Groupworks

"15 Clerkenwell Close's non-descriptive title belies the astonishing architectural triumph that dwells at the simple address, occupying a plot of land a stone's throw from Clerkenwell Green.

" It is clear hearing the architect talk about the project, including a lengthy analysis of the history of the site dating back to a C11th Norman Abbey, that the thoroughness and care that has gone into every thought and every inch of the project, crossed the border of obsession very early in the process.

"The result is a truly bespoke, handcrafted work of art, but one that has a grace and balance suggesting that the obsession was harnessed rather than letting the madness in. "

Photo is by Morley von Sternberg

Cambridge Central Mosque by Marks Barfield Architects

"The urban intervention of inserting a mosque capable of welcoming 1,000 worshipers within a low rise, residential neighbourhood, without dominating it, is masterful.

"Central Cambridge mosque is a demonstration of how architecture can embody religious and cultural philosophy and traditions while utilising sustainable and contemporary materials.

"It is a building of evident programmatic clarity and function, where one of those essential functions is religious contemplation and delight. It has created a new, 21st century, non-denominational British mosque that is both specific to its place and time and which resonates with wider Islamic and religious buildings.

"To have achieved this in Cambridge, with its world-famous tradition of structural expression in religious architecture yet without contrivance is a remarkable achievement."

Photo is by Hufton & Crow

Tintagel Castle Footbridge for English Heritage by Ney& Partners and William Matthews Associates

"This new bridge is beautifully executed at all scales, from the way it respects the silhouette of the landforms it abuts, down to the tactile detail of its path, made from slate on edge.

"Retracing the approximate width and length of the natural land-bridge and castle structures that have long since fallen into the water, the bridge notionally links past with present and physically connects two stranded sections of the castle precinct.

"With its highly ceremonial presence, articulated in every piece of finely crafted stainless steel, it also allows contemporary visitors to retrace the steps of predecessors who would have passed through this section of the castle to gain entry to the grand hall on the island side.

"This is much more than a bridge. It is a connector, an enabler, an interpreter and a spectacle all within its own right."

Photo is by Dennis Gilbert

Kingston University London – Town House by Grafton Architects

"Conceptually, the building exploits two key devices: the colonnade and the courtyard. Wrapping the building in a tall colonnade gives it presence on the street, successfully balancing the need to make a landmark statement with the wider need to respond respectfully in size and scale to its context.

"This building is about high quality at every scale, from the choice of materials, to the more abstract characteristics of warmth and flow.

"The muted colour palette and detailing too is controlled and expertly executed: nothing is out of place, everything is considered, and the result is a rich, beautiful canvas against which to set young creative minds free."

Photo is by Christian Richters

Windermere Jetty Museum by Carmody Groarke

"Nestling into the eastern shore of Lake Windermere, the Jetty Museum creates a compelling composition of vernacular forms which achieves an unusual reconciliation of the reassuringly familiar with the strikingly contemporary.

"When seen from the lake its dark shed-like buildings are embedded in the wooded hillside behind, but on arrival the museum exudes the confident identity of a major cultural institution.

"The unique setting demanded a scheme with a clear vision and of the highest quality. The resulting building has been handled with sensitivity and deftness. It has a restrained and simple beauty that is boldly confident in its design and delivery."

Photo is by Jack Hobhouse

Key Worker Housing, Eddington by Stanton Williams

"The scheme manages to feel as though it is part Cambridge college and part new piece of city.

"As such there is a slight ambiguity of what is truly public and what is private communal space for the residents, yet publicly accessible. This is deliberately employed in order to foster a communal sense within the development and an encouragement to use the space accordingly.

"Overall the sequence of buildings and spaces between them is a delightful example of how a rigorous approach to form, materials and details can create a harmonious environment and make a great place.

"Eddington is emerging as a fascinating example of place creation and urban planning and this Key Worker Housing scheme has helped to establish a high benchmark for forthcoming phases."

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Amin Taha "speechless" after surprise Stirling Prize shortlisting

Groupwork founder Amin Taha has expressed his surprise at the studio's 15 Clerkenwell Close project being included on the shortlist for the 2021 Stirling Prize three years after it was removed from consideration due to a planning dispute.

Taha's studio Groupwork has been included in this year's six-strong Stirling Prize shortlist despite not being one of this year's RIBA National Award winners, which normally make up the prize's longlist.

The project won a RIBA National Award in 2018. However, unbeknown to Taha, it was removed from contention for the Stirling Prize that year due to a planning dispute over the stone used for the building's facade.

The building's inclusion on the shortlist this year, therefore, came as a complete surprise to the architect.

Amin Taha (above) said he was "speechless" to learn that 15 Clerkenwell Close (top) has been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize 2021

"I was a bit speechless and confused until they explained it had been under consideration three years ago, but set aside for the planning appeal to be resolved," Taha told Dezeen.

"We aren't made aware whether a building is in final consideration until the shortlist is announced."

Being shortlisted "is simply a pleasure"

RIBA removed the six-storey housing block in Clerkenwell, which contains Taha's home and Groupwork's office, from contention for the prize in 2018 after the local council issued a demolition order for the building.

At the time, Islington Council claimed the natural stone facade was not fully detailed in the planning documents.

However, following a successful planning appeal, the building was saved from demolition in 2019 after a planning officer admitted to redacting information relating to the facade.

Groupwork's 15 Clerkenwell Close was shortlist three years after winning a RIBA National Award

"Winning the appeal on hearing the enforcement officer concede no demolition order would have been issued had he not removed all references to our stone design was vindication," said Taha.

"As RIBA jurors had already told us during their Regional and National Awards visits how much they appreciated the design and its investigation, being shortlisted for the Stirling Prize is simply a pleasure."

"RIBA does have to set aside controversies"

Although Taha was surprised to learn the building was removed from consideration in 2018, he understands the reasons why RIBA made the decision.

"The RIBA does have to set aside controversies that would otherwise take attention away from the Stirling Prize itself," he said.

The building contains Groupwork's studio

The 15 Clerkenwell Close building was designed by Groupwork to demonstrate the possibilities of using stone as a building's structure. The six-storey building has a structural stone frame.

"We aimed to question what a building is made of," said Taha. "Could it be lighter/greener, surprise us."

"The design team, from engineer to quantity surveyor, hadn't built in loadbearing stone before," he continued. "We found it quicker, cheaper and found beautiful fossils."

"That the final investigation turned out to have a 92 per cent saving on embodied CO2 compared to a steel frame clad in stone was unexpected and encouraged the team to take those lessons and substitute as much conventional building materials with stone and timber."

This year, 15 Clerkenwell Close is shortlisted alongside Marks Barfield Architects' Cambridge Central Mosque, the Key Worker Housing by Stanton Williams, the Town House academic building by Grafton Architects, Windermere Jetty Museum by Carmody Groarke and Tintagel Castle Footbridge by Ney & Partners and William Matthews Associates.

The winner of the award will be announced on 14 October.

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Register for our Architecture Project Talk about the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Cork House

The Cork House, designed by CSK Architects in collaboration with the Bartlett, will be the subject of the next Dezeen x Knauf Architecture Project Talk on Friday 11 June. Register now to watch the webinar.

Matthew Barnett Howland and Dido Milne from the Berkshire architecture studio will present the talk about their carbon-negative house, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize 2019, together with the Bartlett's Oliver Wilton.

The Cork House in Berkshire. Photography is by David Grandorge

Located on a small island in the River Thames, The Cork House is a single-storey dwelling comprising a row of five volumes with pyramid-like roofs and walls made from blocks of expanded cork.

The sustainable building was developed to address the architecture industry's contribution to biodiversity loss, carbon emissions and the depletion of planetary resources.

Barnett Howland, Milne and Wilton used expanded cork as the building's primary construction material because it generates less waste during manufacturing than traditional materials.

The dwelling is made from sustainably sourced cork blocks. Photography is by David Grandorge

Expanded cork also reincorporates leftover product, as it is made from the waste that results when harvesting bark from cork trees.

Additionally, harvesting the bark does not fell trees, which allows landscapes populated by cork oak to retain their biodiversity, a term used to describe the number and variety of species in an ecosystem.

The resulting building is carbon-negative due to the structure's ability to absorb more carbon dioxide than was emitted during the entire construction process.

The building features five pyramid-like skylights. Photography is by Magnus Dennis

Conceived as a kit of parts for self-building, the components are prefabricated offsite and assembled on site like giant pieces of Lego.

The expanded cork blocks are designed to interlock, removing the need for glue and mortar.

The absence of binding agents enables the building to be dismantled into its constituent components at the end of its lifetime for reuse or recycling.

The cork is left exposed. Photography is by David Grandorge

Inside, the cork is left exposed, while timber and copper are used for the remaining structural elements and details.

The Cork House is part of an ongoing research collaboration between Howland, the Bartlett School of Architecture, the University of Bath, Amorium UK and Ty-Mawr.

For the past seven years, the team has been developing sustainable cork-based construction systems.

In addition to its Stirling Prize nomination, The Cork House also won the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2019 and was longlisted for a Dezeen Award the same year.

Matthew Barnett Howland, head of research and development at CSK Architects

Barnett Howland is the director of research and development at CSK Architects and led The Cork House project.

He also lectures at the Bartlett and has previously taught at the Architectural Association, University of Cambridge and London Metropolitan University, where he was awarded the RIBA Tutor Prize.

Director of CSK Architects Dido Milne

Milne is the director of CSK Architects. The Eton-based practice specialises in crafting bespoke buildings that are designed to be sensitive towards their predominantly historic locations.

In response to climate change, Milne's work focuses on innovative forms of conservation – particularly the reuse and adaptation of existing buildings.

The Bartlett School of Architecture's Oliver Wilton

Wilton is director of technology and lecturer in Environmental Design at the Bartlett in London.

His research and teaching cover such fields of enquiry as inhabitation, material technology, environmental and energy performance, and developing new forms of construction.

Wilton is also a director of architecture practice WW Studio and has over 20 years of experience working as an architect and environmental design consultant.

Architecture Project Talk: Cork House takes place at 1:00pm London time on Friday 11 June 2021. Register for free to watch the webinar.

Architecture Project Talks

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Dezeen and Knauf launch Architecture Project Talks, an online lecture series presented by leading UK architects

Dezeen has partnered with Knauf to present Architecture Project Talks, a series of presentations by architects about key projects that involve historic structures, sustainable materials and digital reconstruction methods.

The three talks, which count towards continuing professional development (CPD) points for UK architects, feature Grade II*-listed community theatre Battersea Arts Centre, Stirling Prize-shortlisted Cork House and 168 Upper Street, a deliberately distorted replica of a Victorian terrace.

Read on for more information and to register for free to attend the talks.

Battersea Arts Centre grand hall. Photography is by Fred Howarth

**Battersea Arts Centre by Haworth Tompkins
**1:00pm London time on Friday 14 May 2021

Battersea Arts Centre is a community theatre that was renovated over the course of 12 years by UK architecture firm Haworth Tompkins.

The project's architect Martin Lydon will discuss the design and delivery process, the challenges of working with a historic building and how the studio handled the fire that destroyed the building midway through its renovation.

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Cork House by Matthew Barnett Howland, Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton

**Cork House by Matthew Barnett Howland, Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton
**1:00pm London time on Friday 11 June 2021 **
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Located beside the River Thames in Berkshire, England, Cork House is a residential building made from sustainably sourced cork.

Matthew Barnett Howland and Dido Milne of CSK Architects collaborated with Bartlett professor Oliver Wilton to design the dwelling so that it could be easily dismantled for reuse or recycling.

Register for the Cork House webinar ›

168 Upper Street by Groupwork. Photography is by Tim Soar

**168 Upper Street by Groupwork
**1:00pm London time on Friday 2 July 2021

Amin Taha, founder of architecture studio Groupwork, and project architect Jason Coe will present on 168 Upper Street, a terrace corner that has a cast concrete facade punctuated with mismatched openings.

The pair will discuss the project's use of concrete and how they digitally reconstructed the Victorian building that occupied the site before it was bombed in World War II.

Register for the 168 Upper Street webinar ›

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