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July 24, 2023
John Robertson Architects has repurposed the 1920s Daily Mail HQ in the City of London to create one of the 1% of refurbishment projects to achieve BREEAM Outstanding. John Robertson Architects (JRA) has retrofitted the former headquarters and print works of the Daily Mail newspaper on Tudor Street, close to Fleet Street in the City […]
February 3, 2023
London studio Knox Bhavan has completed a brick pool house project for the owners of a Georgian property in Pembury, Kent Knox Bhavan has produced a handsome pool and brick pavilion located in Pembury, a stone’s throw away from Tunbridge Wells in Kent. The studio was given an open brief to build an “unobtrusive pool […]
January 20, 2023
Architects IF_DO and artist Lakwena collaborate to design an artwork that surrounds a substation in Brent Cross. Picture this: a substation, in Brent Cross, on the side of the A406 North Circular by a junction to the M1 motorway. Whatever you had in your mind, this is not it. This is a substation wrapped by the […]
January 16, 2023
In Mile End, Charles Holland Architects has refurbished a Victorian house that dates back to the 1880s, adding a healthy splash of colour and character to the property. Big round windows, with timber frames proudly painted mustard yellow, guzzle up daylight and connect new spaces; ornate dado rails continue across doors; gutters and rain pipes […]
January 10, 2023
Architect Brown & Brown has designed a highly insulated retreat in the Scottish Highlands. So without sediment Run the clear burns of my country, Fiercely pure,Transparent as light— excerpt from “The Hill Burns” by Nan Shepherd, from In the Cairngorms An intensely rural place, the Cairngorms mountain range in the Scottish Highlands has inspired many. […]
December 14, 2022
In the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a timber abode offers a rural retreat for those looking to immerse in the wilderness. Hidden away in the wooded enclaves of High Weald in East Sussex, a timber lodge has landed. Designed by Warwickshire-based practice, Michael Kendrick Architects, ‘Looking Glass Lodge’ is for clients Rik […]
December 12, 2022
Squire & Partners completes 1 million square foot Art Deco-inspired mixed-use development on former Metropolitan Police Headquarters site. Squire & Partners has completed The Broadway, a 1 million sqft residential, workspace and retail development for developer Northacre. The Westminster site previously housed the Metropolitan Police Headquarters, a 1960s block which occupied the entire footprint, creating […]
November 22, 2022
A new theatre has risen from the ashes of Charing Cross Road’s once-infamous Astoria venue. Theatre owner Nica Burns and Derwent CEO Paul Williams share how theatricality and glamour has melded with AHMM’s modern architecture to create a contemporary hub for the West End. The 600 seat auditorium, designed in collaboration with AHMM by Haworth […]
November 4, 2022
Jonathan Spratt from Bennetts Associates argues that, for ‘young’ buildings from the 1990s and early 2000s architects should steer clients away from a comprehensive retrofit approach towards a strategy of ‘keyhole surgery’ – minimal interventions that have a transformative effect. Commercial office space is subject to several contradictions right now. There is an abundance of […]
October 28, 2022
Studio Weave’s extension to Lea Bridge Library, in Waltham Forest, achieved with the help of the GLA, caters for a growing, diverse community. WordsJason SayerPhotographyJim Stephenson “You used to have to wear thick shoes here,” says Je Ahn, pointing at the ground. “It used to be full of needles and nasty objects – it wasn’t […]
October 28, 2022
Eddie Blake of Studio Weave looks at the Lea Bridge Library, recently extended by Studio Weave, and what it means to genuinely serve a community today. The communities of Leyton are experiencing dramatic change. Along with other areas around the Olympic Park fringe, this Victorian residential suburb and its light industrial edges, is enjoying quiet […]
October 26, 2022
Designers and investors are driving a step change in the provision of innovative high-quality projects in the third-age housing sector. Local authorities need to catch up, says Ballymore creative director Roger Black. The renewed interest in architectural housing solutions for senior people is great to see, and the wonderful John Morden Centre by Mae Architects is […]
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