ZCD Architects has drawn on its research into child-friendly cities to create a pocket community focused on spaces to play on an unpromising site in rural Buckinghamshire. Photography by Matt Clayton
Author Archives: Rob Wilson
Architecture Drawing Prize overall winner named
The winning work of the Architecture Drawing Prize 2021 was announced at the Sir John Soane’s Museum last night at the opening of an exhibition of all the competition’s category winners and finalists
Nikjoo extends and reconfigures 1930s terrace house
The project in Brockley, South London has created an open-plan ground-floor space and uses hand-made and reclaimed materials
IF_DO completes brick and oak-clad Suffolk beach house
The design of IF_DO’s new 320m² beach house in Thorpeness, which sits within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is intended to connect it to the surrounding landscape while offering first-floor views out to sea
Building review: Witherford Watson Mann’s ‘soft’ rework of the Courtauld Gallery
After a three-year closure London’s Courtauld Gallery has reopened. Rob Wilson visited and found a finely wrought retrofit sensitive to the spirit of the original building
O’DonnellBrown collaborates with artist on Motherwell park pavilion
The ‘Rainbow Pavilion’ designed with artist Kate V Robertson, in collaboration with local schoolchildren, is intended to accommodate and promote outdoor learning and events in Strathclyde Country Park
AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 shortlist: Houses and Housing
The AJ can reveal the final set of shortlists for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 in the House and Housing categories
AHMM’s Liverpool Alder Centre creates a healing environment
Part of the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital redevelopment in Liverpool, the centre provides bereavement services for those affected by the death of a child, creating a non-institutional background to grief, writes Rob Wilson
AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 shortlist revealed: Workplace
The AJ is pleased to reveal the third batch of projects shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2022: the four workplace categories
AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 shortlist revealed: Listed buildings, schools and universities
The AJ is pleased to reveal the second batch of projects shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2022