The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Emerging designer WallaceLiu transforms former steel factory into museum in China
The 7,500m² museum is part of a larger regeneration of an old factory site in Chongqing in south-west China
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
Sanya Polescuk Architects completes brick arch extension to north London apartment
The 190m² extension has been constructed out of a light brick speckled with overburnt green glazed bricks
Matheson Whiteley redevelops artists’ studios in Stuttgart
The 180m² ground floor of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, a former factory converted to artists’ workshops and exhibition spaces, has been reconfigured and includes custom furniture designed by Simon Jones Studio
tp bennett delivers ultra-green retrofit office in Manchester
The BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ building for developer FORE reuses the frame of a 1970s building previously slated for demolition
House in Surrey by Tigg + Coll features soaring ‘diagrid’ timber canopy roof
The 240m² family home has been designed to accommodate two children with complex needs
Satish Jassal Architects adds rooftop apartment to Art Deco building
The £120,000 scheme consists of a new aluminium-clad apartment on top of a 1930s building in Haringey, north London
Floating copper roof marks out Grimshaw’s racecourse grandstand
The renewed complex for the ‘spiritual’ home of Irish horseracing, Curragh Racecourse in County Kildare, consists of a new grandstand, parade rings, museum wing and refurbished stable blocks
MK-A completes £3 million community sports centre on outskirts of Glasgow
The 901m² sports facility features a statement patterned precast concrete elevation designed by local primary school children
Bristol Old Vic by Haworth Tompkins
A new ‘public square’ has been created at the front of the scheme, informally linked to the street via a foyer framed by structural timber and glass. Photography by Philip Vile, Fred Howarth
Apt adapts central London building into residential development
The £30 million central London scheme has retained the existing building’s original façade, designed by Gibson and Russell in the 1800s