The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Glenn Howells Architects completes Birmingham’s tallest residential tower
The Mercian, a build-to-rent 42-storey tower, comprises 481 new homes as well as extensive resident amenities and commercial units on Broad Street
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
AHMM completes 513-unit residential development in Croydon
Queen’s Quarter comprises four blocks of 35, 21, 19 and 13 storeys and is centred around Queen’s Gardens, a community-designed public park by landscape architecture practice Grant Associates
Fraser/Livingstone completes solid structural timber ‘tenement’ in Edinburgh
Fraser/Livingstone Architects has completed Simon Square, Scotland’s first commercial developer-led heavy timber residential development, containing six flats that maximise light
Hebridean blackhouse vs volume housebuilder home – energy profiles compared
In the second of three comparisons of historic and modern buildings, Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban look at the energy profiles of a pre-modern Hebrides blackhouse and a volume housebuilder home
Hawkins\Brown completes £180m Stratford East Village housing scheme
The completion of the 524-home build-to-rent scheme on the former London 2012 Athletes’ Village site coincides with the 10th anniversary of the 2012 Olympic Games
PARTI completes two-home infill development in Islington
The Hercules Street development, off Holloway Road in north London, creates a pair of two-bedroom maisonettes for private rent
Hawkins\Brown completes shared living scheme in Harrow
‘Folk at The Palm House’ in Harrow is a purpose-built shared living scheme with 222 units founded on the idea of ‘sleep in your room, live in the building’
Collective Architecture completes Lockerbie social housing
Glasgow-based Collective Architecture has completed 45 new homes for social rent at a key gateway to Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway
Archio completes villa-style housing on the Becontree Estate
Archio has completed a new type of villa within the Becontree Estate for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’s in-house regeneration company
TDO completes mixed-use development on Greenwich High Road
The practice has completed a residential-led 1,385m² mixed-use development on Greenwich High Road in south-east London for client Tailored Living Solutions