The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Hawkins\Brown completes £65 million biomedical research facility
HawkinsBrown has completed an eight-storey research block at the Hammersmith Hospital campus in White City
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Curl la Tourelle Head completes Sutton social housing
Curl la Tourelle Head has completed 28 homes across five infill sites for £4.4 million in a commission for the London Borough of Sutton
Jonathan Burlow designs house extension with single monolithic column
The House With One Column, in the Faversham conservation area, was inspired by the open undercroft of the Kent town’s guildhall
NVB Architects completes ‘tree house’ primary school near Swindon
Somerset-based NVB Architects has created a suite of replacement classrooms and library at Royal Wootton Bassett Infant School in Wiltshire
Generous is beautiful: Studio Bark’s radical low-impact Para 80 experiment
Nest House, built with Studio Bark’s open-source U-Build timber flatpack system, is small-scale, circular construction which, says Ewa Effiom, throws down a sustainability challenge to architects at large. Photography by Jim Stephenson, Andy Billman and Studio Bark
Whittaker Parsons completes home for downsizing couple in Peckham
Forming a bookend to an existing terrace, the 88m2 home, costing £350,000, sits on a narrow site between a substation and the clients’ former family home
Timber all the way: The Black & White Building by Waugh Thistleton
When retrofitting a former Shoreditch warehouse proved unviable, The Office Group hired Waugh Thistleton Architects to replace it with what is now central London’s tallest mass timber office structure, the six-storey Black & White Building. How ambitious is its sustainability?
Greenaway Architecture retrofits 19th-century office in St James’s
This £615,000 project comprises the extensive refurbishment and extension of 19th century No 9 Mason’s Yard to create office space set among art galleries in St James’s, London
Avanti completes council residential infill scheme across three sites in Dover
Avanti has completed a development for Dover District Council offering a mix of social-rent, shared ownership and private units intended to set a benchmark for inclusive, tenure-blind housing in the region
Knox Bhavan completes brick pool house disguised as wall
The practice has completed a low-lying brick pool house for the owners of a Georgian property in Pembury near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, nestled into a slope in the garden