The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Haptic completes timber-framed community hub in King’s Cross
Haptic Architects has completed a 1,500m² community building in King’s Cross with engineered timber façades and frame
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Stanton Williams hands over Emmanuel College additions
Stanton Williams has taken the wraps off its £21 million part re-use, part new-build project at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
MATA completes ‘back to brick’ refurb and extension of terraced house
The mid-terrace, Victorian house in Queen’s Park, west London, is designed for a young family who like to cook and entertain and often need to work from home
Gbolade Design Studio completes split-level townhouses in Crystal Palace
Hermitage Mews comprises eight townhouses on a narrow, sloping plot along Beulah Hill in Crystal Palace, south London, designed to meet net-zero targets
David Chipperfield completes renewal of Royal Academy Schools
The project, with Julian Harrap Architects as heritage consultant, restores historic studios and creates a new suite of dedicated workshops
Lynch Architects completes colonnaded 18-storey office building in Victoria
The building, on a complex urban site above a transport interchange, is the latest in a series of buildings the practice has designed for developer Landsec
Name Architects completes understated retrofit of Hackney terraced house
The refurbishment of a two-storey Victorian house in London Fields, including a kitchen extension, employs a warm, simple palette of materials
Basha-Franklin transforms three floors of Nouvel’s One New Change
Three floors of the City of London development have been turned into workspace for office brand Myo, creating a mix of environments
Anglo-Indian practice Studio Saar completes Udaipur ‘discovery centre’
Frome and India-based Studio Saar has completed a learning and cultural centre in Udaipur, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, offering much needed facilities to local children
Magri Williams completes full-width rear extension for Hackney house
The relationship with natural light was pivotal in the client’s brief for transforming this home on Foulden Road in Hackney