The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Paper House Project completes Martin Luther King play centre in Islington
Paper House Project has completed a new 84m² adventure playground building for Islington Council
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Knox Bhavan retrofits early Victorian villa in Camberwell as low-energy home
The renovation and extension preserves the house’s period elegance while creating a warm low-energy home for the clients to ‘age in place’
Architecture Office reworks listed cottage in Cornwall
The early 19th-century house has been extended, restored and rationalised to create a design-focused holiday let
Neil Dusheiko remodels London terraced home into ‘spa-like’ retreat
Voids and lightwells combine with textures and planting to create a home described as ‘both tranquil and invigorating’
Sandy Rendel Architects completes colonnaded villa in South Downs
The five-bedroom house near Pulborough in West Sussex is a modern take on the villa, set within sweeping parklands
Stiff + Trevillion tranforms former London timber yard into retail arcade
The 3,400m2 arcade retains the yard’s Victorian brick and metal structure and provides a focal point for the Pimlico Road Design District with space for art installations and events
Sanchez Benton refreshes and reanimates ICA with natural light
The refurbishment of the exhibition and reception spaces at the central London contemporary art venue adds spatial richness by opening up windows and emphasising thresholds
Tszwai So completes ‘Emotionalist’ retrofit of Taiwan hotel
London-based Spheron founder Tszwai So’s ‘experimental’ retrofit of a 1970s building in Taipei includes the addition of a public art gallery
Pensaer London completes allotment-inspired home extension
Inspired by the clients’ relationship with their garden, Pensaer London has completed a £165,000 extension to a cottage in Southwark, south London
Invisible Studio and Mole unwrap new base for Forest School Camps charity
Mole Architects and Invisible Studio have completed a £1.2 million low-carbon, low-energy base for educational charity Forest School Camps (FSC) at Haddenham in the Cambridgeshire Fens