The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
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
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TYPE remodels Hampstead flat inspired by Hammershøi paintings
The refurbishment of this garden flat in north London employs the muted tones seen in the domestic interiors depicted by 19th-century Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi
Corstorphine & Wright converts Second World War bunker into holiday home
An abandoned 1939 concrete structure in Ringstead on the Jurassic Coast has been reworked into a 76m² subterranean holiday home
Patalab completes retrofit of mews house in Marylebone
Patalab has completed a project for a young family involving extensive renovation work, including a basement extension and façade remodelling
Cathie Curran completes hempcrete-walled mews house in east London
Cathie Curran has completed a three-storey family house arranged as overlapping and interconnected spaces that are reflected in its gridded terracotta and Accoya wood façade
Intervention Architecture completes arched extension in Birmingham
Wisteria House in Birmingham by local practice Intervention Architecture is a two-storey side extension with double-height void, designed for future trailing of wisteria to wrap around its façades
Creeper comforts: Giles Miller Studio completes house with trellis-like façade
Designed with consulting architects Outpost, the exterior of the four-bedroom house in Broadstairs, Kent, is composed of a metal latticework to encourage climbing plants to cover it
Interior reflections: Graphic House by Office S&M
The first in a series of articles on interiors looks at the refurbishment of an Edwardian home in east London, transformed to reflect the tastes of its graphic-designer owner
Canice Architects adapts 18th-century Irish school building into a house
This conservation project in County Tipperary, Ireland, turns a Recorded Irish Monument with colourful history into a family home
Studio McW completes rework of 18th-century Cambridgeshire house
This renovation of a traditional stone house includes three gabled extensions, picking up on the existing building’s proportions and local rural vernacular