The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Manalo & White completes ‘fine-tuned’ conversion of garage into gallery
This light-touch conversion of an 1890s London stable into the RODEO art gallery is designed to accentuate the historic interior
Retrofit & sustainable
The AJ champions the retrofit of existing buildings with the AJ Retrofit Awards and the RetroFirst campaign. Here you can find good examples of how architects have reused existing buildings, or designed highly sustainable buildings
Moxon Architects rework Fraserburgh’s civic hub with weathered steel ‘saddlebag’
The completed restoration of two central civic buildings forms a new unified headquarters building for Aberdeenshire Council
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Retrofit of Grade II-listed school into homes completed by Apt
Eighteen-apartment scheme in London features new staircases fabricated in oak, glass and steel
Exposed structure and plaster mark Catja de Haas’s basement office conversion
A London terraced house’s basement has been remodelled as an office for the architect’s practice
Surman Weston designs bespoke interior for London mansion block apartment
The 54m² apartment’s bespoke interior has been inspired by the mansion block’s 1920s mock-Tudor exterior
Burwell Architects refurbishes Art Deco former factory for second time
The 4,588m² former garment factory in London’s West End has been retrofitted to create flexible office space
West Architecture peels back the layers of Grade II-listed house in Islington
Shortlisted for last year’s AJ Retrofit Awards, West Architecture’s House of Layers restores and refurbishes an early Victorian grade II-listed house
Hawkins\Brown turns listed library into community centre
A 1903 Grade II-listed library on Plumstead High Street in south-east London has been refurbished and extended to create The Plumstead Centre, a new community building
Adams & Sutherland transforms east London garages into fashion workspaces
The Poplar Works development has retrofitted 100 disused garages into 45 low-cost workshops and studios, a public café, events space and manufacturing facilities
Emerging practice Intervention Architecture creates black silicone extension in Birmingham
The £84,000 project features a rear elevation formed of black silicone render, complementing blue slate slabs on an external terrace area