The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Feix&Merlin restores Walworth Town Hall as community hub
After suffering significant fire damage in 2013, the Grade-II listed Southwark landmark has been sensitively restored to provide flexible workspaces and community facilities
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Levitt Bernstein completes Newham’s first Passivhaus social housing scheme
The Passivhaus-certified, 100 per cent affordable housing development provides 65 homes around a central courtyard together with a nursery
Corstorphine & Wright designs ‘testbed’ circular-economy HQ building
The Northampton headquarters of Unusual Rigging has a glulam timber frame, uses biogenic and reused materials and produces more energy than it consumes
Heatherwick Studio creates ceramic-clad culture business district in China
The new 155,000m² neighbourhood in Xi’an combines a retail podium, offices, apartments and green spaces with a vertical park
Pitman Tozer’s thoroughly moderne mansion block
For its Bulrush Court affordable homes scheme in the Lower Lea Valley, Pitman Tozer Architects looked for inspiration to Modernist apartment blocks of the 1930s
THISS Studio transforms ‘boxed-in’ Victorian terraced house
THISS Studio has refreshed and reconfigured a dark and boxed-in ground floor of a house in Waltham Forest to create a bright, airy family home
Housing quality up, bills down: Hawkins\Brown and Mae regenerate Camden estate
The third stage of an ambitious regeneration of the Agar Grove Estate for Camden Council has been completed
Twelve Architects delivers FCBS’s ‘Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke’ retrofit
Together with planting by Studio Knight Stokoe, the completed scheme renews and revives the celebrated Grade II-listed Mountbatten House office building designed by Arup Associates in 1976
dRMM’s mix and match hybrid at Hackney Wick
On a challenging post-industrial site at the edge of the Olympic Park, dRMM has created a pioneering hybrid urban district that blurs the boundaries between work and living spaces
Mailen Design completes new-build family home in Blackheath
Mailen Design has completed the redevelopment of three garages in a south-east London conservation area into a three-bedroom detached house