The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Corstorphine & Wright converts Second World War bunker into holiday home
An abandoned 1939 concrete structure in Ringstead on the Jurassic Coast has been reworked into a 76m² subterranean holiday home
Buildings
Building studies and other coverage of the latest architectural building designs, including houses, extensions, offices and schools
Buttress completes Caernarfon Castle access works
Buttress has completed a three-year programme of works to enhance the visitor experience at Caernarfon Castle
Patalab completes retrofit of mews house in Marylebone
Patalab has completed a project for a young family involving extensive renovation work, including a basement extension and façade remodelling
Moll Architects completes ‘hyperlocal’ terraced house extension
Moll Architects has completed an extension in Lambeth that reuses original yellow London stock brick as cladding and is fitted with bespoke furniture made by local craftsmen
Levitt Bernstein completes UAL Wimbledon College of Arts campus refit
Levitt Bernstein has completed the £10 million reworking and ‘rationalisation’ of the UAL College of Arts campus in Wimbledon
Cathie Curran completes hempcrete-walled mews house in east London
Cathie Curran has completed a three-storey family house arranged as overlapping and interconnected spaces that are reflected in its gridded terracotta and Accoya wood façade
Intervention Architecture completes arched extension in Birmingham
Wisteria House in Birmingham by local practice Intervention Architecture is a two-storey side extension with double-height void, designed for future trailing of wisteria to wrap around its façades
Shedkm completes first phase of Birkenhead factory-built waterside community
Thirty factory-built homes at Wirral Waters form the first phase of Peel L&P’s waterside community on Birkenhead’s historic docks
Nimtim reimagines Becontree Estate road junction as community square
The practice has transformed four of the Dagenham estate’s corner plots into a public square, developing the designs with local residents and incorporating found materials
James Gorst Architects completes Suffolk timber community hall
James Gorst Architects has completed a 237m² double-height timber frame community hall in Framlingham, rural Suffolk