Fran Williams

The 64-apartment building by Hamonic+Masson & Associés stands out against the horizon in Le Havre – a city that was rebuilt, postwar, to Auguste Perret’s Modernist vision, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Takuji Shimmura, Clément Bonnérat and Hamonic+Masson & Associés

The AJ is delighted to announce the second set of shortlists for this year’s retrofitted AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards

Architects gathered at Spitalfields Conservatory last month for a deep dive into the art and science of crafting daylight in architecture

The AJ is delighted to announce the first of the shortlists for this year’s retrofitted AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards

The building includes a large semicircular cut-out to allow views of a feature stained-glass window at a neighbouring Grade II-listed church

The Bangladeshi architect has reconstructed the Khudi Bari, a low-cost structure responding to the climate crisis, as the latest architectural addition to Vitra’s campus

The nine flats in the Creffield Conservation Area are formed of three pitched elements, stepped in plan to relate to the curve of the site’s boundary

With 18 sound stages, 38 workshops and a 3.6ha filming backlot, Shinfield Studios is the largest new-build film and TV studio campus in the UK 

Emerging Manchester-based practice Dempsey + Gannon has futureproofed a 1930s detached home in West Yorkshire for just over £100,000

Haptic Architects has completed a 1,500m² community building in King’s Cross with engineered timber façades and frame