The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
DSDHA completes National Youth Theatre expansion
DSDHA has completed a £4.45 million scheme to expand the National Youth Theatre’s (NYT) home in Islington, north London
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
Reiach and Hall extends Edinburgh‘s Fruitmarket Gallery with ‘Apollonian’ and ‘Dionysian’ spaces
The £4.3 million project refurbishes the original ‘luminous’ gallery spaces to contrast with new ‘visceral’ spaces of an extension in a former warehouse previously used as a nightclub
Penoyre & Prasad completes copper learning centre for Birkbeck, University of London
Penoyre & Prasad – part of Perkins&Will – has created a copper-clad rooftop extension to the university’s Euston Road building, accommodating a new teaching and learning centre
Burwell upgrades Lasdun Brutalist building for University of London
The practice has sensitively updated Grade II*-listed Charles Clore House in Bloomsbury, home to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
ConForm completes office fit-out within Smithson tower
ConForm Architects has completed the 11th floor fit-out of London’s iconic Smithson Tower, formerly known as the Economist Building
tp bennett transforms 1980s Leeds offices into new workspace
tp bennett has retrofitted One City Square in central Leeds, creating new workspace for a property investor client for £8 million
Barbara Weiss reworks and extends her own house in Wiltshire
Set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the project sees the sensitive integration of a large new extension with two Edwardian cottages
‘Invisible’ 11-year retrofit of huge Geneva housing estate nears completion
While in London Robin Hood Gardens was being demolished, over in Geneva Jaccaud Spicher Architectes Associés had begun a meticulous 11-year retrofit, now nearing completion, of its close contemporary, the huge Le Lignon housing complex, writes Sabrina Syed. Photography by Paola Corsini
Wright & Wright’s Museum of the Home completes
The Museum of the Home in Hoxton (previously the Geffrye Museum) is finally due to reopen on 12 June following its redevelopment by Wright and Wright Architects
WilkinsonEyre completes Battersea Power Station retrofit phase 2
Residents moved into Switch House West this week, the first section of the Grade II*-listed Battersea Power Station redevelopment to reach practical completion