The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Case study: Elemental House by Archmongers
Archmongers has remodelled a 1970s split-level house in Hackney, making each space more generous while enhancing energy efficiency. Photography by French+Tye and Jim Stephenson
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Stiff + Trevillion restores Battersea landmark Arding & Hobbs
Stiff + Trevillion has restored the Grade II-listed former department store near Clapham Junction into workspace with the addition of a CLT roof pavilion
Kirkland Fraser Moor builds ‘bungaroosh’ Paragraph 84 home
Kirkland Fraser Moor has completed a single-storey ‘country house clause’ home in rural Hertfordshire using waste brick
Fardaa extends one-bed London house into family home
A distinctive, compact house has been adapted, extended and environmentally upgraded for the architect’s own home
Konishi Gaffney completes Cumbrian beachfront café
The café and visitor hub, featuring an exposed timber roof and external shutters, is perched alongside the only beach in the Lake District
John Puttick Associates refurbishes Hove church, adding timber porch
The refurbishment of St Leonard’s Church has created a new entrance with a 4.5m-tall Glulam porch and a pitched, standing seam zinc roof
Wright & Wright’s British Academy refurb opens to the public
The refurbishment of the Nash-designed headquarters in central London transforms the lower floors into a destination for events and public engagement
Unagru completes fit-out of own studio space in Hackney Downs
The layout of the 100m2 shell, designed in collaboration with Dedraft, is organised around areas for individual and collaborative work and accented with simple material finishes and warm bright colours
Urban Movement transforms street in Oxford for £138 per sq m
Public realm and transport design practice Urban Movement has completed an urban realm project with construction taking only three weeks
Avanti completes affordable housing block for Be First in Dagenham
This scheme at Oxlow Lane redevelops and densifies a former council estate to deliver 62 affordable homes for Be First, the regeneration arm of Barking and Dagenham Council