The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
NVB completes academic hub and drama studio at Hertfordshire school
This 5,000m2 development for The Haberdashers’ Boys’ School in Elstree is part of an ongoing phased masterplan and consists of two buildings and new landscaped courtyard
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Pensaer completes curved glass-cornered extension in East Dulwich
Pensaer’s extension of a ground-floor flat in south London creates glazed pockets of space connecting the interior to the garden
TAP creates two courtyard dwellings from former stable
The project has structurally stabilised and environmentally upgraded the fabric while revealing original features including arched openings in the courtyard façade
A little extra help: The Harriet Hardy Extra Care Centre by Mæ
Mæ has delivered an impressive multifunctional block with generous proportions and support facilities for older residents at Southwark Council’s contentious Aylesbury Estate redevelopment. Photography by Tim Crocker
Witherford Watson Mann rethinks the inner-city almshouse
Appleby Blue sheltered housing is an exemplar of what can be achieved when public, private and voluntary sectors come together and imagination, social awareness and design flair coincide
Loving alms: Dovehouse Court later living by Mole Architects
Mole Architects’ flexible and thoughtful 15-home Dovehouse Court later-living scheme in Cambridgeshire provides a welcome alternative to the stigmatising nature of some almshouses
Will Gamble reworks Grade II-listed villa with Palm Springs-inspired extension
The design takes its cue from Desert Modernism, employing floor-to-ceiling glass, clean lines and natural materials, while looking to create a connection to the outdoors
Polysmiths completes flood-resilient basement home in London
Polysmiths has adapted a two-bedroom basement apartment in Tufnell Park, north London, into a flood-resilient home
MVRDV completes Berlin Impact Campus hub for Fabrix
The Dutch practice has completed HAUS 1, a new central hub for Berlin's Atelier Gardens, a historic film studio complex being adapted by British developer Fabrix
Unagru reworks Edwardian house with ‘continuous loop of living space’
The project for the three-storey detached house in Teddington, London, includes a roof extension with dormer and the partial rebuilding of an existing rear extension