The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Studio Multi reactivates 1970s shopping arcade in Winchester
The Kings Walk project involves the reactivation of an outdated 1970s shopping arcade in central Winchester with garden, graphics, new signage and lighting
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Holt Architecture and GKA complete ‘sky garden’ for inner-London school
The brightly painted, timber-clad ‘sky garden’ for the London Enterprise Academy in Whitechapel, east London, provides the school – a converted office building – with outdoor play space
Rivington Street Studio completes Silvertown secondary school
Situated at the heart of an emerging community in east London’s Royal Docks, Oasis Academy Silvertown is a secondary school for up to 600 students
Dowen Farmer completes three homes on London garage site
The Tollington development, in Finsbury Park, north London, consists of three townhouses on a tight, former backland garage site
Hoskins’ Scottish National Gallery revamp finally opens
Hoskins’ long-awaited transformation of the Scottish Galleries at the National in Edinburgh opened to the public last Saturday (30 September 2023)
Wright & Wright completes decade-long library project at St John’s, Oxford
Redevelopment at St John’s College has included the Library and Study Centre (2019), and now concludes with the restoration and environmental upgrade of two further historic libraries
Mcmullan Studio prize-winning garden room gets new life as restorative NHS space
The pod-like structure, part of an award-winning show garden at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, will be re-erected at the Princess Spinal Injuries Centre in Sheffield
OGU and MMAS complete adaptive reuse of former Belfast bank
Two Belfast practices have completed the meanwhile adaptation of an 1869 branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland into a ‘sheltered public space’
WilkinsonEyre completes 50-storey Bishopsgate tower
Backed by developers Mitsubishi Estate London and Stanhope, the £300 million project, originally dubbed ‘Prussian Blue’, has completed in London’s Square Mile
Coffey completes housing, gallery and artists’ studios in Bermondsey
Coffey Architects has completed 400 mixed-tenure homes plus a gallery and studios in a series of new and retrofitted buildings in south London