The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
rhp completes Passivhaus student accommodation for Cambridge college
R H Partnerships Architects (rhp) has completed a sustainable new heart for Lucy Cavendish College in Cambridge, providing student rooms, social spaces and a café
House
The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Coppin Dockray gives new lease of life to Trevor Dannatt house
The practice rescued the 1960 Hampstead house from possible demolition, repairing and reworking it as a new family home
Brown & Brown completes hillside home in Scottish national park
Scottish practice Brown & Brown Architects has completed Spyon Cop, a three-bedroom house camouflaged on a hillside in the Cairngorms National Park
Matthew Giles Architects reworks Victorian villa in Clapham
The retrofit of an 1860s house includes a new single-storey extension at the rear, designed to enhance the connection between living spaces and garden
Artefact completes colourful retrofit of 1980s house in Islington
Artefact has completed the retrofit of a 1980s single-aspect house in Islington’s Grove Estate using pigmented timber to create key moves
Building revisit: returning to FAT’s Blue House
The Blue House in east London was FAT’s first built project. Twenty years on, former director Sean Griffiths has remodelled and extended it, fulfilling its original design intention
Brisco Loran reworks recent extensions to south London home
Architect Brisco Loran has upgraded a south London home with a new unifying floor and bespoke joinery
Oliver Leech Architects adds reeded glass extension to London townhouse
Oliver Leech Architects has transformed a west London townhouse with a double-height reeded glass extension
Unknown Works creates banana-yellow additions for house in Leyton
The yellow-clad front porch and rear extension bookend an east London brick infill terrace house, adding space for a young family
MawsonKerr completes timber cassette Passivhaus in Northumberland
MawsonKerr has built a three-bedroom house that minimises the use of concrete and uses no structural steel