The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
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
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
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
Satish Jassal completes Haringey social housing with intergenerational units
The scheme for Haringey Council consists of 46 new council homes for a 1970s estate in Seven Sisters
Artform completes two semis on brownfield site in Manchester
Artform Architects has completed adjoining four-bedroom homes in Stretford, taking cues from the local vernacular with buff-brick modelled façades and dormer windows
Belsize Architects completes 25 homes on brownfield site in Merton
The scheme sits on an infill corner site overlooking Mitcham Common previously occupied by a scrap-metal dealer and offers a good range of private and shared amenity spaces
Levitt Bernstein completes Newham’s first Passivhaus social housing scheme
The Passivhaus-certified, 100 per cent affordable housing development provides 65 homes around a central courtyard together with a nursery
Heatherwick Studio creates ceramic-clad culture business district in China
The new 155,000m² neighbourhood in Xi’an combines a retail podium, offices, apartments and green spaces with a vertical park
Pitman Tozer’s thoroughly moderne mansion block
For its Bulrush Court affordable homes scheme in the Lower Lea Valley, Pitman Tozer Architects looked for inspiration to Modernist apartment blocks of the 1930s
Housing quality up, bills down: Hawkins\Brown and Mae regenerate Camden estate
The third stage of an ambitious regeneration of the Agar Grove Estate for Camden Council has been completed
dRMM’s mix and match hybrid at Hackney Wick
On a challenging post-industrial site at the edge of the Olympic Park, dRMM has created a pioneering hybrid urban district that blurs the boundaries between work and living spaces