The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
RCKa completes infill housing development on Hackney estate
The practice has transformed a former storage site near Old Street into six new social tenure homes
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
HTA Design completes Pocket Living homes in north London
HTA Design has completed 86 homes for developer Pocket Living on a narrow brownfield site beside Woodside Park station in Barnet, north London
London’s andre kong studio completes ‘Studentville’ housing in Lisbon
The student halls channel the local vernacular with white terracotta roof-tile cladding that reflect solar gain and create a ventilated façade
Chipperfield completes three buildings in new quarter of Lyon
The buildings, delivered with AIA Architectes, consist of a social housing block, mixed-use tower and office building and form part of three urban blocks grouped around garden courtyards
Allies and Morrison completes ‘picturesque’ housing at King’s Cross
Capella, a 14-storey, 176-unit mixed-tenure apartment building is one of the final residential blocks to complete within the King’s Cross masterplan
Caruso St John’s St Pancras Campus: one block, many uses
Caruso St John has helped stitch together a neglected corner of Camden with a highly considered piece of urban placemaking, says Rob Wilson. Photography by Filip Dujardin
Novak Hiles completes two ‘bold’ brick dwellings in north London
The project on a redundant garage site in a conservation area of Enfield consists of a ground-floor, three-bedroom unit and a first-floor one-bedroom apartment
Barking connection: White Arkitekter’s latest tranche of the Gascoigne Estate
West Phase 2 of the east London estate’s regeneration puts placemaking, sustainability and connectivity at its core, says Fran Williams. Photography by Paul Riddle
Avanti completes affordable housing block for Be First in Dagenham
This scheme at Oxlow Lane redevelops and densifies a former council estate to deliver 62 affordable homes for Be First, the regeneration arm of Barking and Dagenham Council
White Arkitekter completes Scandi-inspired neighbourhood in Barking
White Arkitekter has completed the latest phase of the Gascoigne Estate regeneration in Barking, one of London’s largest estate makeover projects