The AJ’s top suggestions of pavilions and installations to see at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, which opened to the public at the weekend
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Studio McW completes rework of 18th-century Cambridgeshire house
This renovation of a traditional stone house includes three gabled extensions, picking up on the existing building’s proportions and local rural vernacular
Marks Barfield completes mixed-use project focused on wellbeing
The 20,000m2 development in Euston includes a workspace designed to promote wellbeing through use of biophilia, natural materials and plenty of daylight
HTA retrofits Hackney Wick warehouse as its own studio
The rework of four adjacent Victorian industrial buildings in east London into one interconnected workspace provides a new home for the practice’s 200 London staff
Charles Holland Architects playfully retrofits east London terraced house
The house has been reworked as a modern family home, using colour and decorative details while avoiding the tropes of a typical 21st-century extension
Welcome to Worthing: Bayside by Allies and Morrison
The mixed-use scheme is a striking addition to the seafront, designed to act as a gateway to the West Sussex coastal town
Studio Gang-designed Gilder Center museum extension opens in New York
The 21,400m2 $465 million extension to the American Museum of Natural History features a canyon-inspired shotcrete atrium
Trewhela Williams channels Donald Judd in London mews conversion
This conversion of an under-used, uninsulated garage into a habitable space for a growing family, has improved daylighting, cross-ventilation and passive surveillance from the interior
AJ Small Projects 2023 shortlist revealed
The AJ can reveal the 20 schemes shortlisted for AJ Small Projects 2023 – and the reader poll is now open!
Newcastle’s Farrell Centre uses the city as a constant reference
The centre, which opened last weekend in a retrofitted Newcastle department store, seeks to engage the public with architecture and planning issues. Rob Wilson visits and meets its director Owen Hopkins