The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
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
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Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
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
Tom Parsons completes Berkshire home office with saddle-shaped roof
Architect Tom Parsons has completed Bat Wing Studio, a hillside studio in the North Wessex Downs with office and gym and a swooping roof
Fletcher Priest reworks 9,300sqm office building in London’s West End
Fletcher Priest Architects has comprehensively renovated and extended Marylebone Place, retaining 85 per cent of the existing structure and adding three storeys
Hopkins completes School of Data Science in Virginia
Hopkins Architects’ new building at the University of Virginia, designed in association with VMDO, incorporates a portico and brick elevations designed to reference the campus’s Thomas Jefferson-designed Rotunda
Making the most of what you have: Cockpit by Cooke Fawcett Architects
Declining a developer’s offer to buy its 1960s former office block in Deptford and move into a new build scheme nearby, arts incubator Cockpit instead commissioned Cooke Fawcett Architects to perform a delicate, light-touch makeover. Ellie Duffy reports back
Fathom Architects upgrades 10-year-old King’s Cross workspace
Fathom Architects has revamped communal spaces over three floors at 2 Pancras Square, which was originally designed by Allies and Morrison 10 years ago
Corstophine & Wright completes The Scoop office scheme in Southwark
The building includes a large semicircular cut-out to allow views of a feature stained-glass window at a neighbouring Grade II-listed church
Chapman Architects converts Victorian waterworks into biotech hub
The renovation of a Grade II-listed Victorian waterworks near Hampton Court provides laboratory and R&D space for a company manufacturing artificial DNA
Scott Brownrigg completes £250m film and TV studios in Reading
With 18 sound stages, 38 workshops and a 3.6ha filming backlot, Shinfield Studios is the largest new-build film and TV studio campus in the UK