The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Scott Brownrigg completes Cambridge laboratory with recycled access floors
Scott Brownrigg has completed The Optic, a 10,295m2 three-storey office-cum-laboratory at Peterhouse Technology Park in Cambridge
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Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
Squire & Partners transforms Seifert’s Brutalist icon Space House
Squire & Partners has performed an ambitious retrofit of Seifert’s Grade II-listed tower near Covent Garden, including the addition of a 2,000m2 rooftop extension
Jon Matthews Architects converts Manchester rail arches into arts spaces
The three once-derelict railway arches now complement and extend the adjacent Home arts complex, supporting young and emerging artists
Bennetts completes first building for Tribeca life sciences campus
Bennetts Associates has completed The Apex, the first building in the high-profile Tribeca life sciences development in London’s King’s Cross – and the UK’s first large building to use site subsoil in its construction
Corstorphine & Wright designs ‘testbed’ circular-economy HQ building
The Northampton headquarters of Unusual Rigging has a glulam timber frame, uses biogenic and reused materials and produces more energy than it consumes
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
Twelve Architects delivers FCBS’s ‘Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke’ retrofit
Together with planting by Studio Knight Stokoe, the completed scheme renews and revives the celebrated Grade II-listed Mountbatten House office building designed by Arup Associates in 1976
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
PLP completes office building above Bond Street station
PLP Architecture has completed a new building for Grosvenor offering six floors of Grade A office space at 65 Davies Street, above London’s Bond Street station
JRA refurbishes former Sony Pictures headquarters in Soho
John Robertson Architects (JRA) has reconfigured 30-31 Golden Square, just north of Piccadilly Circus in central London, as offices for client Aviva Investors