Monthly Archives: December 2025
TC 163 – Alison Brooks Architects: Architecture 2004 – 2024
Buy the Book
Our new practice monograph, Alison Brooks Architects: Architecture 2004–2024, is out now. Join us for the official book launch at the Architectural Association Bookshop in London on March 5, 2025.
Published by international architectural magazine, TC Cuadernos, this dual English and Spanish edition (TC 163) captures two decades of our work. The 386-page monograph charts 18 built works completed in the past 20 years, extensively documented with descriptive texts, photographs, drawings and emblematic construction details that illuminate each project’s tectonic and conceptual intent.
The portfolio showcases Alison Brooks Architects’ ethos, demonstrating how the practice fuses an endlessly inventive architectural imagination with a profound sensitivity to the diverse cultural and natural histories that form each project’s provenance.
Contributors
Introduction by Ricardo Meri de la Maza, ‘On the Essence of Alison Brooks’ Architecture’
Interview between Jose Maria de Lapuerta with Alison Brooks
Alison Brooks Architects
Year
2024
Publisher
TC Cuadernos
English, Spanish
386 Pages, Paperback
ISBN: 978-84-17753-60-3
Also available for purchase at your local independent bookstore.
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RIBA Roundtable on Housing Quality and Design
3.12.2025, London, UK
Alison Brooks participated in a roundtable hosted by the Rt Hon Sir James Cleverly MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government – which was focused on delivering high-quality housing.
Alison Brooks participated in a roundtable hosted by the Rt Hon Sir James Cleverly MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government – which was focused on delivering high-quality housing.
Joined by housing experts, the conversation explored securing local support for new homes, raising design standards and tackling barriers to high-quality development. She was joined by Chris Williamson, Jennifer Dixon, Adam Khan, Alex Ely, Annalie Riches, Katie Clemence-Jackson, David Stronge, Félicie Krikler, Jessam Al-Jawad, Lloyd Preston-Allen, Alice Brownfield, Simon Bayliss and Tom Bloxham.
Brooks continues to support RIBA’s engagement with MPs and peers across the political spectrum to influence built environment policy and promote positions on building safety, well-designed homes and places, net zero, as well as international trade.
Photo from RIBA.
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First Look: 405 Sherbourne, Toronto, Canada
First look at 405 Sherbourne – a collaboration between Alison Brooks Architects and architectsAlliance – that will add 300 units of affordable housing for singles, couples and families to St. James Town for CreateTO and Toronto Community Housing.
First look at 405 Sherbourne – a collaboration between Alison Brooks Architects and architectsAlliance – that will add 300 units of affordable housing for singles, couples and families to St. James Town for CreateTO and Toronto Community Housing.
Positioned within a diverse urban context ranging from low-rise homes to mid-rise apartments, the neighbourhood is set to transform with recently approved towers exceeding 40 storeys along the Sherbourne corridor – supported by close proximity to Sherbourne subway station and Downtown Toronto’s PMTSA network.
The project’s split floor plate maximizes corner units and dual-aspect homes, while supporting a deliberate unit mix: 19% three-bedroom family homes, 50% one-bedroom and 30% two-bedroom units – promoting generous, high-quality living spaces for a broad community.
Stretching from Sherbourne Street to Bleecker Street, the scheme prioritizes the public realm at ground level, enhancing green space, improving cycling amenities and parking and strengthening connections to Sherbourne Street’s primary cycling network.
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