The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Shahed Saleem completes timber and faience-faced Docklands café
Shahed Saleem has created a new café on the Isle of Dogs incorporating motifs and materials that draw on the East End’s maritime history
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Arts and industry: Gianni Botsford’s artist studios on the Isle of Wight
Gianni Botsford Architects has transformed a pair of barns on a smallholding on the Isle of Wight into a dwelling and studios for visiting artists and writers. James Payne reports. Photography by Schnepp Renou
Artform completes two semis on brownfield site in Manchester
Artform Architects has completed adjoining four-bedroom homes in Stretford, taking cues from the local vernacular with buff-brick modelled façades and dormer windows
Reiach and Hall’s Kilmartin Museum: wrapped around the past
The expansion of this archaeological museum in western Scotland is humble but effective, writes Will Ing. Photography by Paul Campbell, Phil Wilkinson and Broad Daylight Photography
Office S&M remodels Victorian terraced house in Hackney
Office S&M has remodeled and extended a house in London’s Stoke Newington to connect with a Grade II-listed wall bordering Victorian arboretum Abney Park
Loader Monteith completes three-bedroom home in rural Angus
Loader Monteith has integrated the remains of an existing byre to tie a new house in eastern Scotland into its landscape setting
Invitation to the dance: Sadler’s Wells East
In London’s burgeoning East Bank, O’Donnell + Tuomey has created, in the client’s words, a ‘powerhouse for dance’ that is ‘an inviting space that is welcome to all’, writes Ellie Duffy. Photography by Peter Cook and Peter Molloy
Bennetts completes first building for Tribeca life sciences campus
Bennetts Associates has completed The Apex, the first building in the high-profile Tribeca life sciences development in London’s King’s Cross – and the UK’s first large building to use site subsoil in its construction
AOMD refurbishes rural home using locally sourced waste
Emerging practice AOMD has renovated and extended an Edwardian semi-detached house set among ancient woodland in Limpsfield Chart, Surrey
Belsize Architects completes 25 homes on brownfield site in Merton
The scheme sits on an infill corner site overlooking Mitcham Common previously occupied by a scrap-metal dealer and offers a good range of private and shared amenity spaces