The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Holland Harvey designs new Tate café following circular economy principles
The all-day café and bar at Tate Modern includes benches made from ash die-back timber and tabletops using coffee grounds
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Interior reflections: Prada Caffè at Harrods
The third in our interiors series looks at the Milan-based fashion house’s Art Nouveau-meets-Art Deco café, integrated within the London department store’s Neo-Baroque façade
vPPR’s Camden Market Canopy
vPPR Architects has created a playful new venue perched on the elevated former railway goods yard alongside Camden Market’s Grade II*-listed Horse Hospital
From ruin to restaurant: Croft 3 by architecture studio fardaa
On the far-flung Isle of Mull, the London-based architect has completed its first rural project, the transformation of a ruined stone byre into a dining hall
Fraser/Livingstone transforms former Edinburgh public toilet into restaurant
The £220,000 retrofit project replaces the building’s roof with a new trapezoidal pavilion perched over the water
RSHP completes its first major mixed-use centre in Seoul
Parc 1, a US$1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) commercial complex featuring the largest shopping centre in Seoul, South Korea, has opened its doors, 16 years after its inception
M&S Oxford Street vs the Baths of Caracalla – energy profiles compared
In the first of three comparisons of historic and modern buildings, Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban examine the energy profiles of the Baths of Caracalla and Pilbrow & Partners’ proposed new M&S on Oxford Street
Tate + Co completes beachside loft suites for Cornish hotel
A building previously occupied by Jamie Oliver’s restaurant Fifteen Cornwall has been converted into beachfront hotel suites
Holloway Li designs Industrial Revolution-inspired showroom
The practice has completed a showroom and co-working space in Clerkenwell, London, for bathroom brand Coalbrook, inspired by the Industrial Revolution and costing £480,000
Is Liverpool One an exemplar of urban regeneration?
Iain Jackson revisits L1, completed in 2008 to a masterplan by BDP working with a stable of 26 architecture practices, to see how the huge urban regeneration scheme has bedded in