The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Scott Brownrigg completes Cambridge laboratory with recycled access floors
Scott Brownrigg has completed The Optic, a 10,295m2 three-storey office-cum-laboratory at Peterhouse Technology Park in Cambridge
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
It’s only natural: five live projects made using natural materials
For the AJ’s natural materials-themed issue, Rob Wilson and Fran Williams look at five projects currently on site or recently completed that make extensive use of natural materials in their construction
ROAR extends Grade II-listed house with oak-framed living space and pergola
ROAR has refurbished and extended a home in Chislehurst, south-east London, with full-width bi-fold windows, integrated window seat and pergola stretching into the garden
A first look at Hugh Strange’s House on a Hill in Hastings
Hugh Strange’s Hastings scheme successfully navigates the challenges of building a house extension on a steeply sloping site, says Michael Dillon. Photography by Rory Gaylor
Carmody Groarke renovates London penthouse with rooftop pavilion
Carmody Groarke has transformed an apartment in a 19th-century Grade II-listed merchant’s house in Covent Garden with the addition of a folded aluminium rooftop pavilion
GRID redevelops former Birmingham industrial site into 400 homes
GRID has redeveloped a formerly contaminated brownfield site in Birmingham that was once the world centre of small arms manufacture
Somner Macdonald adds pyramid-roofed extension to Arts and Crafts house
Somner Macdonald has extended a 1910 Arts and Crafts house in Edinburgh with 100m2 of gallery-like living space
Squire & Partners transforms Seifert’s Brutalist icon Space House
Squire & Partners has performed an ambitious retrofit of Seifert’s Grade II-listed tower near Covent Garden, including the addition of a 2,000m2 rooftop extension
Circling the square: David Kohn’s Gradel Quadrangles at New College, Oxford
David Kohn Architects has created a striking, sinuous addition that plays innovatively with materials, building techniques and architectural forms
Wilkinson King completes CLT and structural stone house
Wilkinson King has completed a four-bedroom family home in West Sussex featuring a limestone stair and structural limestone loggia sheltering the interior from solar gain