McGonigle McGrath has secured planning permission for a 480m² home within a listed walled garden on the Finnebrogue Estate, in Northern Ireland.
Author Archives: Richard Waite
Archio to draw up ‘model house’ for Becontree Estate retrofit roll-out
Archio has been asked to create a model concept that could be used to retrofit thousands of home on the massive Becontree Estate in east London
Stirling Prize winners selected for Earl’s Court redevelopment
The Earls Court Development Company has chosen three design teams, featuring three Stirling Prize-winning architects, to deliver the first phase of the redevelopment of the former exhibition centre site
Is Sheffield’s high street ready for a post-retail future?
How is Sheffield reviving its city centre? Why is a community land trust targeting vacant shops for new homes? And what can be done with its empty 1960s John Lewis store? Richard Waite investigates
In pictures: celebrating the AJ Architecture Awards 2022
Twenty-two AJ Architecture Awards were handed out at a special celebration ceremony hosted by writer, radio presenter and former vicar Richard Coles
Serpentine Gallery names architect for 2023 summer pavilion
Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, has been chosen to design next summer’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion
Tintagel Bridge wins inaugural Building Beauty Awards
William Matthews Associates and Ney & Partners’ ‘perfectly poised’ Tintagel Castle Footbridge in Cornwall has won the inaugural Building Beauty Awards
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s Cambridge ‘modernist megastructure’ handed Grade II* listing
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s 1980 Robinson College in Cambridge, described by The Twentieth Century Society as a ‘radically modern’ megastructure, has been given a Grade II* listing
AFK’s City tower plans challenged by listing bid for existing 90s offices
The Twentieth Century Society has made a bid to list a 1990s office block in the City of London and save it from being flattened to make way for a 63-storey skyscraper
New practice Alt Studios: ‘We’re inspired by entrepreneurial architect-developers’
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone