The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Stanton Williams completes £38m overhaul of Rhodes Trust HQ
The Grade II* listed Arts and Crafts building within an Oxford conservation area has been transformed to create additional space for Rhodes Scholars
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Weston Williamson completes housing scheme on North Peckham Estate
Commercial Way is a new residential development in Peckham for Southwark Council, delivering 109 homes for social rent and shared ownership
ArkleBoyce completes Young People’s Space for Leeds hospice
The purpose-built facility for St Gemma’s Hospice provides a main social space and a counselling room unified under a timber lattice roof structure
De Matos Ryan completes Wonderlab gallery at National Railway Museum
The 1,500m² interactive gallery for the National Railway Museum in York showcases different engineering and railway concepts and processes
Power of youth: Rising Green by Freehaus
Freehaus and JA Projects, working closely with the area’s local youth and Haringey Council, have led the creation of a vibrant new kind of youth centre. Words by Shamiso Oneka, photography by Ben Blossom
OMA’s delayed and overbudget Manchester Factory officially opens
OMA’s landmark Factory arts centre in Manchester – the practice’s first major UK public building – has finally opened, years late and costing double its original budget
MICA completes Rambert Ballet School extension in Twickenham
The building, near the River Thames, provides additional dance studio space for teaching and practice to accommodate increased student numbers
INCH and Sheppard Robson convert disused gas purifier shed to workspace
INCH Architecture + Design and Sheppard Robson have preserved and reworked a prominent disused Victorian industrial structure in Glasgow
Haworth Tompkins completes multistorey industrial complex in Barking
Industria, in Barking, east London, is said to be the UK’s first ‘new-generation vertical’ multistorey light industrial building
Ström Architects completes mid-century modern-inspired house in Cheltenham
Case House is a simple white brick and render house, half-hidden behind an existing brick wall, in a designated character area of the Gloucestershire town’s conservation area