The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Tim Groom unwraps mill-inspired housing in Manchester
The first residents have moved into this £24 million build-to-rent scheme on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter designed by local practice Tim Groom Architects
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
Meridian lines: Urban Projects Bureau housing at Meridian Water
With Brambling House, Urban Projects Bureau has created a hybrid terrace/mansion block form to stitch the wider Meridian Water development into its neighbourhood
Greenhouse effect: Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture’s Bordeaux housing
At the Bastide Niel eco-district in Bordeaux, Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture has created Ekko, an innovative apartment block that takes the winter garden to extremes
Child Graddon Lewis and the suddenly affordable homes
Child Graddon Lewis’s consented scheme at Harrow Road changed from 50 per cent private sale to 100 per cent affordable rent following a change of administration at Westminster City Council
Conform completes texture-rich rework of Hampstead garden flat
The design reorientates the living spaces out towards the garden, with materials ranging from green terrazzo to clay-toned plaster, exposed concrete and oak cabinetry
Cullinan Studio completes 119 infill homes for Camden Council
The practice, working with delivery architect ECE Westworks, has completed the housing in Camden’s Maitland Park Estate, including 51 council homes
Coffey Architects completes ‘village life’-inspired later living housing
Coffey Architects has completed Cobham Bowers, a residential development for retirement living specialist Pegasus
TAP creates two courtyard dwellings from former stable
The project has structurally stabilised and environmentally upgraded the fabric while revealing original features including arched openings in the courtyard façade
A little extra help: The Harriet Hardy Extra Care Centre by Mæ
Mæ has delivered an impressive multifunctional block with generous proportions and support facilities for older residents at Southwark Council’s contentious Aylesbury Estate redevelopment. Photography by Tim Crocker
Witherford Watson Mann rethinks the inner-city almshouse
Appleby Blue sheltered housing is an exemplar of what can be achieved when public, private and voluntary sectors come together and imagination, social awareness and design flair coincide