The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Burwell upgrades Lasdun Brutalist building for University of London
The practice has sensitively updated Grade II*-listed Charles Clore House in Bloomsbury, home to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Retrofit & sustainable
The AJ champions the retrofit of existing buildings with the AJ Retrofit Awards and the RetroFirst campaign. Here you can find good examples of how architects have reused existing buildings, or designed highly sustainable buildings
ConForm completes office fit-out within Smithson tower
ConForm Architects has completed the 11th floor fit-out of London’s iconic Smithson Tower, formerly known as the Economist Building
tp bennett transforms 1980s Leeds offices into new workspace
tp bennett has retrofitted One City Square in central Leeds, creating new workspace for a property investor client for £8 million
Barbara Weiss reworks and extends her own house in Wiltshire
Set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the project sees the sensitive integration of a large new extension with two Edwardian cottages
‘Invisible’ 11-year retrofit of huge Geneva housing estate nears completion
While in London Robin Hood Gardens was being demolished, over in Geneva Jaccaud Spicher Architectes Associés had begun a meticulous 11-year retrofit, now nearing completion, of its close contemporary, the huge Le Lignon housing complex, writes Sabrina Syed. Photography by Paola Corsini
Wright & Wright’s Museum of the Home completes
The Museum of the Home in Hoxton (previously the Geffrye Museum) is finally due to reopen on 12 June following its redevelopment by Wright and Wright Architects
WilkinsonEyre completes Battersea Power Station retrofit phase 2
Residents moved into Switch House West this week, the first section of the Grade II*-listed Battersea Power Station redevelopment to reach practical completion
Benjamin Machin completes extension to 1950s house in Staffordshire countryside
This £150,000 project by Benjamin Machin involves refurbishment and addition of a garden room to a mid-20th century house
DeDraft completes Cor-ten clad extension in Hackney
DeDraft has added a weathering steel-clad extension to a four-storey semi-detached property in London Fields
Edge redevelops Grade I-listed townhouse as contemporary workspace
A recently completed scheme at 22 Bedford Square in London by Edge Architecture reworks a former Georgian house and its 1980s extension