Mole Architects’ Wabi Tea House in Prickwillow cost only £7,000 and won AJ Small Projects in 2008. Almost all the materials were reclaimed, and the client, a potter, hand-built all the joinery. Mini-film by Jim Stephenson.
A homeless shelter centred around a community café and kitchen. This project features a welcoming palate of materials and colours to emphasise comfort and homeliness. Photography by Nicholas Worley.
Astragal has learned of another possible embarrassment for the RIBA
Many congratulations to those who – in normal times – would have been picking up their recent New Year honours at Buckingham Palace right about now
The original Bovingdon bricks of the cathedral were carefully matched in size, texture, colouring, ratio and distribution to carry out repairs to brickwork and to form the new walls, window openings and quoins as part of this extensive retrofit project. Photography by Giles Rocholl Photography
This store interior for fashion designer Sophie Hulme features floors, walls and furniture made of natural and renewable materials with subtle variation in pattern, tone and finish. Photography by Maich Swift Architects
In light of growing public health concerns around the coronavirus, we are looking to move AJ Summit to a date later in the year
Centred around a pill-shaped staircase, the project features a chequerboard patterned floor in marble and terrazzo, cherry timber staircase and a bathroom lined in pink waterproof plaster. Photography by Andrew Meredith
The AJ talks to its ex-editor and former Open City chief Rory Olcayto about his new role at Pollard Thomas Edwards and explores what an in-house architectural writer and critic will actually do
What will the good people of east London make of this year’s Antepavilion shortlist? They would be forgiven for hoping Jaimie Shorten’s entry Sharks! doesn’t win, seeing as it consists of several sea predators clinging on to a life raft in Regent’s Canal
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