The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Corstophine & Wright completes The Scoop office scheme in Southwark
The building includes a large semicircular cut-out to allow views of a feature stained-glass window at a neighbouring Grade II-listed church
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
WonKy creates woodland education space using shipping container and parachute
The Clearing in Bexley, south-east London, is a multifunctional education space for teaching the importance of woodland management and conservation
Marina Tabassum completes demountable house for Vitra Campus
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
Chapman Architects converts Victorian waterworks into biotech hub
The renovation of a Grade II-listed Victorian waterworks near Hampton Court provides laboratory and R&D space for a company manufacturing artificial DNA
Collective Works completes deep retrofit of north London terrace house
Mid Terrace Dream modernises a run-down early 1900s house into a low-carbon, low-energy home for a young couple
Red+White completes triple-pitched Ealing development
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
Scott Brownrigg completes £250m film and TV studios in Reading
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
Alison Brooks Architects completes mixed-use complex at Tottenham Hale
One Ashley Road comprises two residential towers framing a courtyard block above three levels of retail and incubator workspaces with roof gardens and new public realm
Dempsey + Gannon refurbishes and extends West Yorkshire home on £100k
Emerging Manchester-based practice Dempsey + Gannon has futureproofed a 1930s detached home in West Yorkshire for just over £100,000
Sam Jacob Studio refurbishes Kent School of Architecture studios
The new teaching spaces for the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Kent in Canterbury incorporate influences from the Bauhaus to Warhol’s Factory