Fran Williams

Scott Brownrigg has completed The Optic, a 10,295m2  three-storey office-cum-laboratory at Peterhouse Technology Park in Cambridge

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

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 has redeveloped a formerly contaminated brownfield site in Birmingham that was once the world centre of small arms manufacture

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

The scheme for Haringey Council consists of 46 new council homes for a 1970s estate in Seven Sisters

The 380m2 new-build, four-bed house on the outskirts of Harpenden features a brick chimney and asymmetric cat-slide roof inspired by Arts and Crafts architecture

Scottish healthcare specialist NVDC has completed the £5 million retrofit of a 40-year-old Brutalist commercial unit into a private healthcare facility for Elanic

Co-designed by local young people under the guidance of MATT+FIONA and local charity Fitzrovia Youth in Action, ‘Reflect’ is a new centrepiece for a meanwhile garden on a former HS2 construction compound

Office S&M has remodeled and extended a house in London’s Stoke Newington to connect with a Grade II-listed wall bordering Victorian arboretum Abney Park