The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Copenhagen-based ADEPT completes ‘factory for architecture’
Danish practice ADEPT has completed a new 12,500m² home for the Aarhus School of Architecture resembling an industrial building
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Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
Interrogating Arup’s retrofit of 1 Triton Square
With its latest addition to its Regent’s Place campus, British Land has again demonstrated its interest in delivering retrofit projects. But, given the age of the building, how necessary was this scheme? asks Seb Laan Lomas. Photography Simon Kennedy
Bennetts Associates completes Woolwich cultural hub
Bennetts Associates has retrofitted five Grade II- and Grade II*-listed historic buildings on Woolwich’s Royal Arsenal into 15,000m2 of space for performance, events, training and education
Studio Bua turns Icelandic barn into artist’s studio
Oslo and London-based Studio Bua has completed the £195,000 conversion of a barn overlooking a fjord in western Iceland into an artist’s studio
HUT retrofits Farringdon office block with sculptural roof extension
HUT has completed a retrofit and extension to a six-storey Victorian building in the heart of Farringdon’s Hatton Garden jewellery quarter
SPPARC completes new-build ‘smart’ office block in central London
Southworks in Southwark is the first UK building to achieve the Smart Building Certification Platinum certificate
Greenwich Design District members’ club by Roz Barr Architects
The practice has created an innovative and highly individual members’ club for the creative tenants of Greenwich’s Design District, says Fran Williams
Net Gains: Architecture 00’s building for the Greenwich Design District
C1, one of the first buildings to complete in the new Design District on Greenwich Peninsula, is a pared-back, super-flexible workspace – complete with rooftop basketball court, writes Jon Astbury
Squire & Partners completes workspace next door to its own Brixton offices
The Department Store Studios provides a mix of flexible workspace with serviced social and meeting areas as well as a bar, restaurant and screening room
Make completes ‘woven’ building for HMRC in Salford
A new commercial building by Make Architects for HMRC makes reference to Salford’s industrial heritage through a distinctive red brick façade treatment