The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Jan Kattein Architects transforms Enfield garages into affordable workspaces
The Angel Yard project in Upper Edmonton reuses the structures of a series of derelict garages to accommodate community and young enterprise activities
RetroFirst
RetroFirst is an AJ campaign to prioritise retrofit over demolition and rebuild. Hundreds of architecture practices, organisations and individuals have declared their support for our campaign
FCBS completes makeover of world’s first iron-framed building
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has adapted the Grade I-listed Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings into a £28 million social enterprise hub for Historic England after first being engaged on the project nearly 20 years ago
Astrain Scheldt reworks and extends Hackney house
This renovation of a five-storey house within the Well Street Common Conservation Area includes a new Crittall-glazed extension
TYPE remodels Hampstead flat inspired by Hammershøi paintings
The refurbishment of this garden flat in north London employs the muted tones seen in the domestic interiors depicted by 19th-century Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi
Make retrofits Sydney government offices into five-star hotel
The listed former Department of Education building has been restored and remodelled with 192 guest rooms, event spaces and three bars and restaurants
Corstorphine & Wright converts Second World War bunker into holiday home
An abandoned 1939 concrete structure in Ringstead on the Jurassic Coast has been reworked into a 76m² subterranean holiday home
Moll Architects completes ‘hyperlocal’ terraced house extension
Moll Architects has completed an extension in Lambeth that reuses original yellow London stock brick as cladding and is fitted with bespoke furniture made by local craftsmen
Levitt Bernstein completes UAL Wimbledon College of Arts campus refit
Levitt Bernstein has completed the £10 million reworking and ‘rationalisation’ of the UAL College of Arts campus in Wimbledon
Intervention Architecture completes arched extension in Birmingham
Wisteria House in Birmingham by local practice Intervention Architecture is a two-storey side extension with double-height void, designed for future trailing of wisteria to wrap around its façades
JRA repurposes historic former Daily Mail HQ off Fleet Street
John Robertson Architects (JRA) has refurbished the former headquarters and printworks of the Daily Mail, which was in use as a newspaper office until the 1980s