The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Greenaway Architecture retrofits 19th-century office in St James’s
This £615,000 project comprises the extensive refurbishment and extension of 19th century No 9 Mason’s Yard to create office space set among art galleries in St James’s, London
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
Giles Reid Architects remodels Bermondsey coach house
The practice has reconfigured a two-storey 18th-century building, hemmed in by later development, so as to maximise light – both natural and reflected – to its interiors
Hyperspace transforms old garage into ‘moody’ studio with bug-hotel façade
Hyperspace has created a 35m2 studio in Hertfordshire with a façade made of 850 scales of charred timber, contrasting with interior finishes of pale poplar plywood panels under white oiled timber rafters
Citizens Design Bureau completes revamp of historical theatre
Citizens Design Bureau has completed its refurbishment of Jacksons Lane Theatre, which is housed in a Grade II-listed former church in London’s Highgate
Unagru reworks a house for a cellist in London
The project, which involved the refurbishment and extension of a Victorian terraced house, has seen the creation of a top-lit living space that is also designed for music practice
Shedkm creates 200 homes on listed cotton mill site in Manchester
Fran Williams visits Crusader and Phoenix, shedkm’s regeneration of several 1840s Manchester cotton mill buildings to deliver a residential community set around a landscaped courtyard
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
Coppin Dockray gives new lease of life to Trevor Dannatt house
The practice rescued the 1960 Hampstead house from possible demolition, repairing and reworking it as a new family home
Matthew Giles Architects reworks Victorian villa in Clapham
The retrofit of an 1860s house includes a new single-storey extension at the rear, designed to enhance the connection between living spaces and garden
Artefact completes colourful retrofit of 1980s house in Islington
Artefact has completed the retrofit of a 1980s single-aspect house in Islington’s Grove Estate using pigmented timber to create key moves