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
Tag: Hackney
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
Tonkin Liu’s Hackney high street infill scheme gets green light
Hackney Council has approved Tonkin Liu’s retrofit of a former pub in Hackney, east London, into a mixed-used scheme with 10 flats
Magri Williams completes full-width rear extension for Hackney house
The relationship with natural light was pivotal in the client’s brief for transforming this home on Foulden Road in Hackney
Cairn pioneers use of low-carbon concrete on Hackney extension
‘House made by many hands’ is the first structure in the UK to specify a low-carbon limestone calcined clay cement concrete
Hackney names architects chosen for infill council housing jobs
Haworth Tompkins, Al-Jawad Pike, Sergison Bates, Archio and Citizens Design Bureau have been chosen by Hackney Council to build 400 new homes on infill sites across the borough
Morris + Co submits 339-unit co-living scheme on Olympic Park fringe
Morris + Company has unveiled plans to replace warehouses in Hackney Wick, east London, with an eight-storey co-living scheme that also includes workspace
[Y/N] Studio expands and improves affordable workspace at Bradbury Works
[Y/N] Studio has repaired and extended a terrace of workspaces in Hackney, wrapping the building in a polycarbonate skin and with deck access circulation in an industrial palette of materials
Astrain Scheldt reworks and extends Hackney house
This renovation of a five-storey house within the Well Street Common Conservation Area includes a new Crittall-glazed extension
Hackney Council names designer for history museum upgrade
Hackney Council has named GuM Studios as winner of its contest for a £750,000 revamp of its community history museum in north-east London