Peveril Gardens and Artist Studios by Sanchez Benton architects has won the Landscape and Public Realm prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards
Author Archives: Rob Wilson
Gensler repurposes 15-storey Canary Wharf office block as mixed-use scheme
The conversion of the single-tenant office building – one of the first to be built in Canary Wharf – adds nearly 1,850m2 of publicly accessible amenity space, reflecting the changing context of the area
Loader Monteith adds ceramics studio in makeover of architect’s Victorian villa
Loader Monteith has re-unified a previously subdivided 19th-century merchant’s house in Glasgow’s Lenzie Conservation Area and added a pottery studio
Richard Parr designs own west London studio as ‘collaborative hub’
Richard Parr Associates’ new workplace, dubbed People’s Space, includes two kitchens, a wood-burning stove and a fully-stocked bar
KPF completes £518m development with façade colours inspired by Constable
The mixed-use scheme has 29 and 33-storey residential towers above a six-storey office and retail podium, with other uses, including a hotel and affordable workplaces, accommodated in retained, retrofitted elements
Hoskins creates mixed-use development in central Edinburgh
The scheme, on a corner of St Andrew’s Square, comprises 5,570m2 of Grade-A office accommodation above a restaurant, café, bar and shops
Magri Williams completes handmade brick-clad extension in north London
The extension uses a minimal but tonally warm material palette, including an oak portal marking the threshold into the existing house
Room with a view: Dow Jones’ founders complete Cornwall holiday home
Alun Jones and Biba Dow’s holiday home in Newlyn, Cornwall, is a retrofit of an unpromising mid-century structure
Denizen Works completes ‘non-traditional’ barn conversion
The brief for this rework of an existing flint barn into open living spaces and double-height volumes was to ‘steer clear of a traditional barn conversion’ aesthetic of exposed rafters and rustic features
Con|form completes pavilion-like roof extension in north London
The refurbishment and rework of a three-story dwelling in an Islington conservation area better connects it to a south-facing roof terrace