The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Buckley Gray Yeoman completes timber-led retrofit of former gin distillery
Buckley Gray Yeoman has completed Technique, a timber-led retrofit of a former gin distillery in Clerkenwell into workspace for developer General Projects
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Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
RSHP completes its first major mixed-use centre in Seoul
Parc 1, a US$1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) commercial complex featuring the largest shopping centre in Seoul, South Korea, has opened its doors, 16 years after its inception
Penoyre & Prasad’s PEARL research facility
An apparently low-tech shed in Dagenham is home to this laboratory for UCL, which uses 1:1 modelling to test how people use the built environment, writes Nile Bridgeman. Photography James Tye and Timothy Soar
PAD Studio completes house in the New Forest National Park
Gardener’s Cottage is an eco-conscious four-bed family home with connections to its surrounding landscape
Eclectic dreams: David Kohn’s Greenwich Design District buildings
The two buildings for the Greenwich peninsula Design District form a gazetteer of architectural references from Neoclassical to James Stirling and Venturi Scott Brown, writes Rob Wilson. Photography by Max Creasy
HUT retrofits Art-Deco building in east London
HUT has completed a retrofit of 1930s Gilray House – a former garment factory – to create a new office space on City Road
Sauerbruch Hutton completes Berlin government offices with ‘wooden heart’
Commissioned, planned and constructed in barely 18 months, this new building in Berlin bucks the trend for German government projects being delayed and over-budget. Florian Heilmeyer visited it
Bloqs: 5th Studio’s low-cost shared workspace in Enfield
Part retrofit, part new-build, Bloqs is a huge industrial shed adapted to provide makers with low-cost workspace and equipment as part of Enfield’s £6 billion Meridian Water regeneration programme, writes Fran Williams. Photography Timothy Soar and Claudia Agati
Orms reworks listed office building retaining 92% of original structure
The practice has refurbished a City of London building, built in the 1930s with a late 1990s extension, to unite the two wings and increase floorspace
IF_DO completes demountable ‘incubator’ space in Rotherhithe
The Hithe is a low-cost, demountable business hub, built on a redundant site for social enterprise company Meanwhile Space