Architects: Levitt Bernstein; DO Architecture; Anne Thorne Architects Partnership; PCKO; PRP; Collective Architecture; Cole Thompson Anders Architects.

Considered use of products should ensure that ECD Architects' retrofit of a social-housing property achieves an 80 per cent reduction in carbon emissions.

Tony Fretton's housing and medical centre in London epitomises the 'peculiar conditions' of housing provision in the UK.
Photography by Peter Cook.

Stephen Taylor Architects' latest completion on Charlotte St in Shoreditch, east London, is a mixed-use building that he originally was going to live in with his family and for which he has acted as the developer. Above the ground floor and basement gallery/commercial unit is a family house, fitted into two floors and with a roof terrace looking across the rooftops of this former warehouse district.
Photography by David Grandorge

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As part of its series of patternbooks, the AJ has published a set of one- and two- bedroom apartment plans by contemporary UK architects. A selection of plans and site plans are published below and the full pdf is available for download here.