Author Archives: Rob Wilson

Here are the 20 contenders for AJ Small Projects 2020 – the winner will be revealed on Monday 27 April

The AJ is delighted to announce the winners in the seven categories of the AJ Specification Awards 2020

St Albans Place is a three-sectioned serviced-apartment building developed for the VITA Group

The £21 million building includes swimming pool, gym and two-storey central pavilion

The Poplar Works development has retrofitted 100 disused garages into 45 low-cost workshops and studios, a public café, events space and manufacturing facilities

The low-cost project, built in a clearing among dense woodland, steps its section, following the terrain and avoiding extensive root systems of surrounding trees

The local authority’s 79-home Bristol Grove scheme, designed by an in-house team, is among the latest iterations of its standardised house types, says Rob Wilson. Photography Graham Oakes

Architects Stephen Bates, Allan Sylvester and David Leech join Lendlease’s director of masterplanning Selina Mason as judges of this year’s AJ Small Projects Award, which this year marks its 25th anniversary

At the end of Columbia Road, two commercial units at ground level and two flats above feature varied brick detailing and irregular windows

The Architecture Foundation has curated an intelligent cut through contemporary spaces of spiritual worship, assembly and memorial – and the need to balance the mystic with mammon, says Rob Wilson