The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Holland Harvey designs new Tate café following circular economy principles
The all-day café and bar at Tate Modern includes benches made from ash die-back timber and tabletops using coffee grounds
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Campbell & Co remodels Victorian lodge house in Dorking
The practice has extended and remodelled an Arts and Crafts house in Surrey, using traditional terracotta hung tiles
Foster Kirk designs cycling HQ and hub in Olympic Park
The practice has been selected as one of five design partners at this year’s Open House Festival, for its headquarters for community charity Bikeworks
dMFK completes 24-storey residential tower on Wembley brownfield site
The building for Barratt London, on a brownfield site close to Wembley Stadium, contains 229 homes and affordable workspace
Oliver Leech completes prefab timber-framed house in Cotswolds
The five-bedroom home set on a sloping site overlooking a rural village replaces an existing bungalow on the 0.4ha site
MATA retrofits three listed buildings in Spitalfields to create new workspace
The Weaver’s House consists of three adjoining Grade II-listed buildings dating back to the early 18th century, which have been refurbished and extended with a new glulam-structured atrium
Unknown Works refocuses London townhouse with dusty-pink extension
The four-storey semi-detached terrace house has been opened up with living spaces giving out onto a stepped and terraced garden modelled with Barragán-like pigmented surfaces
Barr Gazetas completes ‘net zero’ office in Chelsea, reusing 24 tonnes of steel
The architect has transformed Holbein Gardens, a 1980s office building near Sloane Square, for client Grosvenor, reusing steel from nearby demolition sites
Bureau de Change completes contemporary take on Metroland house
Cast House, a new-build bay-windowed house in a suburban street in Clapham shares the visual pattern-book language of 1930s houses
Jonathan Tuckey Design restores Italian farmhouse
Jonathan Tuckey Design has a restored a 19th century farmstead in the Piemonte region of northern Italy, transforming the hillside ensemble into a sunlit home and studio for a fashion designer