The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
AWW retrofits east London office for adult education charity
AWW has adapted an east London office to create a new adult learning and community care hub for the Mary Ward Centre charity
RetroFirst
RetroFirst is an AJ campaign to prioritise retrofit over demolition and rebuild. Hundreds of architecture practices, organisations and individuals have declared their support for our campaign
Tuckey Design Studio remodels house in converted Devon chapel
The practice – formerly Jonathan Tuckey Design – has reworked and stripped back a 1970s retrofit to create a four-bedroom family home
Scullion Architects completes timber extension to south Dublin home
Irish practice Scullion Architects has completed a 130m2 timber and blockwork extension to a Victorian terraced house in Ranelagh, south Dublin, inspired by an old apple tree in the garden
Case study: The Common Rooms by Artefact
St Thomas’ Church in Clapton Commons has been transformed into an uplifting place for all. Photography by Jim Stephenson
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
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
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
Levitt Bernstein restores Grade II-listed Bristol Beacon concert hall
Levitt Bernstein has completed the £130 million restoration of Bristol Beacon – formerly known as Colston Hall – for Bristol City Council and Bristol Music Trust
ODOS converts County Kildare grain mill to whiskey distillery
Dublin, London and New York-based Office of David O’Shea (ODOS) Architects has completed the Church of Oak Distillery, a former historic grain mill converted to whiskey-making
ADP retrofits West Midlands office building into music school
A five-storey office building in Sandwell has been completely remodelled internally, providing facilities for 870 students, including a triple-height performance hall within an existing atrium