The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Tate + Co completes beachside loft suites for Cornish hotel
A building previously occupied by Jamie Oliver’s restaurant Fifteen Cornwall has been converted into beachfront hotel suites
Retrofit & sustainable
The AJ champions the retrofit of existing buildings with the AJ Retrofit Awards and the RetroFirst campaign. Here you can find good examples of how architects have reused existing buildings, or designed highly sustainable buildings
Nikjoo extends and reconfigures 1930s terrace house
The project in Brockley, South London has created an open-plan ground-floor space and uses hand-made and reclaimed materials
Oliver Leech Architects remodels dilapidated Hampstead house
Oliver Leech Architects has remodelled and extended a run-down terraced house in Hampstead for an artist and sculptor client for £550,000
Building review: Witherford Watson Mann’s ‘soft’ rework of the Courtauld Gallery
After a three-year closure London’s Courtauld Gallery has reopened. Rob Wilson visited and found a finely wrought retrofit sensitive to the spirit of the original building
McCloy + Muchemwa creates colourful self-build garden shed in Norwich
40 under 40 practice McCloy + Muchemwa has transformed a dilapidated outbuilding into a greenhouse and workspace for self-build clients at their Norwich home for just £6,000
SPPARC completes retail development next to London’s Borough Market
The 16,400m2 Borough Yards development is based around a new public realm of pedestrian lanes and yard-like spaces linking the Thames to Borough Market, focused around a repurposed Victorian brick arched railway viaduct
Building review: 6a’s Holborn House
This £3.4m makeover of a former basement gymnasium by 6a Architects, adding two new floors, gives a new public face and facilities to a building run by the Holborn Community Association. Lucy Bullivant paid a visit
Keep what you can: Hoxton warehouse retrofit by Ian Chalk Architects
A former furniture warehouse in London’s Hoxton had already been converted into offices, but Ian Chalk Architects has made more of the building’s original features to promote the engineer client’s re-use ethos
Gensler repurposes 15-storey Canary Wharf office block as mixed-use scheme
The conversion of the single-tenant office building – one of the first to be built in Canary Wharf – adds nearly 1,850m2 of publicly accessible amenity space, reflecting the changing context of the area
Loader Monteith adds ceramics studio in makeover of architect’s Victorian villa
Loader Monteith has re-unified a previously subdivided 19th-century merchant’s house in Glasgow’s Lenzie Conservation Area and added a pottery studio