The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Building study: Sidney Close by ZCD Architects
ZCD Architects has drawn on its research into child-friendly cities to create a pocket community focused on spaces to play on an unpromising site in rural Buckinghamshire. Photography by Matt Clayton
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
Home is where the art is: Apparata Architects co-housing in Barking
This bold, lean, adaptable live/work co-housing development for artists in Barking town centre startles with its uncompromising structural concrete aesthetic, says Fran Williams. Photography by Johan Dehlin, David Grandorge and Ståle Eriksen
Falconer Chester Hall’s Lexington brings a New York state of mind to Liverpool
Falconer Chester Hall looked to Manhattan for inspiration for The Lexington, a built-to-rent tower for Moda Living in Liverpool’s northern docks, designed to attract millennials with a transatlantic high-rise community lifestyle vibe, writes Fran Williams
PLP completes 43-storey mixed-use City tower incorporating new public space
The One Bishopsgate Plaza development also includes a refurbished and extended Victorian building incorporating restaurant, office and retail space, organised around the new public square on Bishopsgate
Squire and Partners completes 13,600sqm mixed-use development in west London
Squire and Partners has completed a scheme comprising four blocks providing 51 high-end residential apartments and 14 Peabody-managed affordable homes as well as leisure facilities, ground-floor retail, a new office building and landscaped public courtyard
John McAslan + Partners completes 23-storey Tottenham housing scheme
John McAslan + Partners has completed Apex Gardens, a 23-storey residential development comprising a cluster of three interconnected brick-clad forms
shedkm completes two council housing schemes in Eltham
The two schemes, on former under-used garage sites in south-east London, maximise private amenity and play space, with the larger units a contemporary adaptation of local 1930s semi-detached houses
Tsuruta Architects completes ‘pre-regeneration’ project in Catford
Tsuruta Architects have completed a micro regeneration project in Catford town centre consisting of five apartments on a small infill site
Design Engine completes £24m student halls for Arts University Bournemouth
A new scheme by Design Engine, opening for the new academic year, will accommodate 300 students at Arts University Bournemouth’s Wallisdown campus in Poole
Jon Matthews completes 18-storey residential tower in Greater Manchester
Manchester-based Jon Matthews Architects has completed a £44 million residential development at No1 Old Trafford