English Buildings Designs: Architecture
Key Architectural Developments in England. Modern United Kingdom built environment designs
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post updated 23 October 2026
We have 4 pages of English Building selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages. We aim to select good quality buildings in England. We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and competitions across England. The focus is on contemporary buildings in England but information on traditional English architecture is also welcome.
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Architecture Designs in England – recently added to this page:
11 Dec 2023
Jurassic House, Dorset, southwest England
Design: AR Design Studio
photograph © Martin Gardner
Jurassic House
Leicester Engineering Department Building Renovation, Leicestershire, central England
Design: Berman Guedes Stretton
Leicester Engineering Department Building
Britain’s most iconic building of the mid 20th Century. Berman Guedes Stretton has been appointed by the University of Leicester to renovate its engineering department workshops. Designed by Stirling and Gowan in 1959 and considered one of the most significant and influential post war buildings in the UK, it is famous for its sculptural, diamond shaped glazed roof form.
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English Building Designs
English Buildings – Birmingham area
Birmingham Library Building, West Midlands, central England
Design: Mecanoo
Birmingham Library Building
The Library of Birmingham will comprise of 10 levels, with nine above ground and a lower ground floor. It is being constructed using 21,000m³ of concrete in the frame, enough to fill more than eight Olympic sized swimming pools. The frame is reinforced by 3,000 tonnes of steel reinforcement, the equivalent weight of around 35,750 average UK men. 30,000m³ of material, enough to fill 60,000 bath tubs, had to be dug out of the basement. The building will feature a spacious entrance and foyer with mezzanine, the gateway to both the Library and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, to which the new Library will be physically connected.
Birmingham New Street Building
The Cube Building, West Midlands, central England
Architects: Make
The Cube Building
The Cube is a new landmark destination building in a rapidly regenerating district of central Birmingham. It marks a key moment in Birmingham’s development: the first of a new phase of visionary buildings which will build on the work of Future System’s Selfridges building and pave the way for Mecanoo’s Library of Birmingham and Foreign Office Architects’ New Street station. Comprising offices, parking, apartments, retail units, a hotel, spa, restaurant and “sky bar”, The Cube was conceived as a building which would never close. Moreover this complex structure is permeable and crafted to open up routes and views to emerging neighbouring districts.
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English Buildings – Cambridge
Accordia Housing, southeast England
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley with Maccreanor Lavington Architects + Alison Brooks Architects
Accordia Housing
Accordia Living was designed by a team of award-winning architects including Feilden Clegg Bradley, Alison Brooks Architects and Macreanor Lavington Architects, the scheme is architecturally dynamic, innovative and unique which offers one of the most desirable and striking new build residential developments in the UK. Accordia Living is set in excess of eight acres of mature landscaping and has been designed with the focus of creating a close, cohesive community with green open spaces. The existing natural landscape combined with the 700 established trees onsite has dictated the design theme for Accordia Living – a layout themed around the idea of “living in a garden.”
Cambridge School of Architecture
Darwin College Extension Building
Sainsbury Laboratory Building, Cambridgeshire, southeast England
Architects: Stanton Williams
Sainsbury Laboratory Building
2012 RIBA Stirling Prize Winner
The RIBA Stirling Prize judges said:
“The Sainsbury Laboratory is a timeless piece of architecture, sitting within a highly sensitive site, one overlooking the woods where Darwin walked with his tutor and mentor Henslow, discussing the origin of species. In this project Stanton Williams and their landscape architects have created a new landscape, a courtyard which flows out into the botanical gardens. The project is both highly particular and specialised, and at the same time a universal building type, taken to an extraordinary degree of sophistication and beauty.
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English Buildings – Leicester
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English Building Developments – Liverpool
Albert Docks buildings
Bluecoat building
Liverpool Arena building
Liverpool ONE buildings
Liverpool Waterfront Buildings
Design: Chapman Taylor Architects
Liverpool Waterfront Buildings
£5.5bn skyscraper scheme for Liverpool’s northern docklands. The city council planning committee unanimously approved the Liverpool Waters plan by Peel Holdings for the 150-acre site. However, the planning application was sent to communities secretary Eric Pickles MP, due to its size and concerns over its impact on the World Heritage Site.
Mann Island buildings
Museum of Liverpool Building, northwest England
Design: 3XN Architects
Museum of Liverpool Building
The new Museum of Liverpool is largest newly-built national museum in Britain for more than a century. The new Museum of Liverpool, opening on July 19th will not only tell the story of its importance as one of the World’s great ports or about its cultural influence, such as with the Beatles phenomenon. It will also serve as a meeting point for History, the People of Liverpool and visitors from around the globe. Therefore, according to the Architect, Kim Herforth Nielsen, the structure functions as much more than just a Building or a Museum.
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English Building Developments – London
Adelaide Wharf
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Barbican Centre
Design: Chamberlin, Powell & Bon
Battersea Power Station project
Design: Rafael Viñoly
201 Bishopsgate
Design: SOM Architects
British Library building
Design: Colin St John Wilson
Broadcasting House
Design: MJP ; Sheppard Robson
Broadgate buildings
Design: Arup Associates / SOM
BT Tower building
Design: Eric Bedford & G. R. Yeats
Canary Wharf buildings
Design: Cesar Pelli Architect
Christ Church Spitalfields
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Commonwealth Institute project
OMA
Darwin Centre Phase 2
C. F. Møller Architects
Economist Building
The Smithsons
Emirates Stadium
HOK Architects
20 Fenchurch St Walkie Talkie
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects
Finsbury Square building
Eric Parry Architects
Highpoint
Berthold Lubetkin Architect
Imperial College Building
Design: Foster + Partners
Lawn Road Flats
Design: Wells Coates Architect
Lloyds Building
Design: Richard Rogers Partnership
London City Hall
Foster + Partners
London Eye
Marks Barfield Architects
London Millennium Bridge
Foster + Partners
London Olympic Stadium
HOK Sport
London Aquatics Centre
Zaha Hadid Architects
Number One Poultry
JSMWAL; MWPL
National Gallery building
William Wilkins
Natural History Museum
Alfred Waterhouse
O2 arena
HOK Sport
One Hyde Park
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Palestra building
Alsop Architects
Royal Albert Hall building
Francis Fowke
Royal Festival Hall
Leslie Martin
Sadlers Wells Theatre
RHWL / Nicholas Hare Architects
South Bank Centre Buildings
Denys Lasdun
St Pancras Station
William Henry Barlow
St Paul’s Cathedral
Sir Christopher Wren
Swiss Cottage Park
Design: various architects
Swiss Re – 30 St Mary’s Axe
Foster + Partners
Tate Modern building
Herzog & de Meuron Architects
Nat West Tower– former Nat West Tower
R. Seifert & Partners
Unicorn Theatre
Keith Williams Architects
Victoria & Albert Museum
Design: various architects
Waterloo Station building
Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners
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English Building Designs – Manchester
Beetham Tower
Designed by Manchester-based firm, Ian Simpson Architects, the Hilton Hotel tower was completed in early 2007. It includes 218 premium apartments and a 279 room five star Hilton Hotel.
CIS Tower
The tower was designed as a prestige headquarters to showcase the Co-operative movement in Manchester. In 1958, the company proposed building an office tower block, construction began the following year and it was completed in 1962.
No.1 Deansgate apartments
No. 1 Deansgate is the name and location of a medium-rise apartment building in central Manchester, England. It is the tallest all-steel residential building in the United Kingdom, and one of the most expensive addresses in Manchester. The building was completed in 2002, and is situated at the north end of Deansgate close to Manchester Cathedral.
Imperial War Museum Manchester
The museum building was designed by architect Daniel Libeskind and opened in July 2002, receiving 470,000 visitors in its first year of opening. It was recognised with awards or prize nominations for its architecture and is a prime example of Deconstructivist architecture.
Manchester Civil Justice Centre
Manchester Transport Interchange
Manchester United Stadium Project
mediacity Salford Buildings
Piccadilly Gardens Redevelopment
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English Building Designs – Newcastle
Holy Island – Lindisfarne
Newcastle College Buildings
Sage Gateshead Building
Woodhorn Colliery Buildings
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English Buildings – Oxford
Bonn Square Oxford Competition
University of Oxford Biochem. Building
University of Oxford Earth Sciences
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English Buildings – Portsmouth
Portsmouth Stadium development
University of Winchester building
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English Buildings – Rural
Non-urban English Buildings
Countryside Architecture, alphabetical:
Stowe House
MG Central Feature at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2024, West Sussex, southern England
Design: Gerry Judah
photo : David Barbour
MG Central Feature Goodwood Festival of Speed
Morpeth Leisure Centre, Morpeth, Northumberland, northeast England
Design: GT3 Architects
images courtesy of architecture office
Morpeth Leisure Centre, Northumberland, England
Beck Farm & Studio, Howardian Hills, North Yorkshire
Design: Vine Architecture Studio
photo : Nicholas Worley
Beck Farm & Studio, North Yorkshire
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Location: England, UK
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