Skip to content The Sutton Estate CIVIC and HTA Design’s conservation-led renewal of Chelsea’s historic Sutton Estate transforms four Edwardian mansion blocks into sustainable homes while restoring the estate’s architectural character and reshaping its landscape into a sociable, biodiverse network of gardens. Photos HTA Design The Sutton Estate in Chelsea, one of the country’s earliest […]
Bovenbouw Architectuur and David Kohn Architects have remodelled an 18th-century Flemish religious community complex into the University of Hasselt’s architecture faculty and a new public space. Words Bie Plevoets Photos Stijn Bollaert Although the history of the beguines in Hasselt, Belgium, stretches back to the 13th century, the present-day beguinage has its origin in 1707. […]
Skip to content University of Gloucestershire City Campus ADP Architects have transformed Gloucester’s landmark Art Deco Debenhams into a new home for the University of Gloucestershire and the city’s central library. Photos Paul Karalius ADP Architects has completed the complex retrofit of a landmark Art Deco Debenhams building in the centre of Gloucester. Phase one […]
Skip to content The Gallery Cagni Williams Associates has reworked an Edwardian terraced house in south London, replacing the rear conservatory with a Corten steel-and-glass extension, and delivering a low-energy retrofit with carefully crafted spaces. Photos Fred Howarth Cagni Williams Associates has completed a highly distinctive extension and refurbishment of an Edwardian terraced house in […]
Skip to content Janošík headquarters and showroom Set within a reworked 1950s grain warehouse in eastern Czech Republic, Jakub Janošík’s new headquarters and showroom for his family’s window and door company forms a strong connection with the surrounding Carpathian landscape. Photos Amedeo Benestante Located at the foothills of the White Carpathians in eastern Czech Republic, […]
Studio Weave has turned a mid-20th-century farm building near Cowes on the Isle of Wight into a family home. South Barn is a 158 square metre barn converted into a three-bedroom house, and, as Nelly Greig writes in Architecture Today, it shows how a rural building can gain a new use without losing its character. […]
The Chancery Rosewood has opened in Mayfair, London, inside Eero Saarinen’s Grade II-listed former US Embassy on Grosvenor Square. As reported by the editors of Architecture Today, David Chipperfield Architects led the restoration and retrofit, with interiors by French architect Joseph Dirand. From embassy to luxury hotel Saarinen, the Finnish-American architect, designed the building, which […]
20 Newcourt Street is the conversion of the former St John’s Wood police station in London by Wendover Studio. The Victorian civic building now holds nine boutique rental apartments arranged around a new courtyard. As reported by Jason Sayer in Architecture Today, it is the practice’s first project in the rental sector. From cells to […]
Skip to content 21–25 Bruton Place DLA Architecture’s mass timber rooftop extension and deep retrofit of three mews buildings elevates a historic Mayfair street into a new, carbon-conscious, design-led workspace. Photos Stevie Campbell Found behind the bustle of Berkeley Square in west London, Bruton Place has long served as a service route to the mansions […]
HUT Architecture has sympathetically transformed a 1930s army drill hall into co-working offices, a café, and apartments in the heart of London’s Mile End. Photos Billy Bolton Originally constructed in 1939 for the Royal Army Service Corps 1st Anti-Aircraft Division, the former drill hall in Mile End, east London, has had many lives – as […]
Watch the AT webinar, in partnership with Geberit, exploring ways of designing more productive and fulfilling workplaces. How can we design more productive and fulfilling workplace environments? What strategic moves are architects making to adapt and enhance existing building stock to deliver offices and studios where staff can work efficiently together and on their own? […]
Laura Davies talks to Madeleine Jacob about repurposing old furniture and making a studio that’s visually coherent and designed to last. Laura Davies chats to colleague Giovanni Bonavia Pelà in the practice’s new London home. Photograph by Paul Riddle. Tell us about White Arkiteker’s office retrofit. What prompted the move? We outgrew our previous office […]