The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
White Arkitekter completes 52-home affordable housing scheme in Barking
Arbor Court provides 52 tenure-blind, 100 per cent affordable homes as part of Gascoigne East Phase 2, one of London’s largest estate regeneration projects
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
Assael completes 315-studio co-living scheme in Wandsworth
Sunday Mills, next to the River Wandle in Earlsfield, includes a co-working space, communal kitchen, lounge and library, cinema room, gym and roof terraces
Allies and Morrison completes mixed-use scheme in Vauxhall
The housing-led development comprises three towers, two mansion blocks and maisonettes as well as shops and cafés, small business units and a school
Park Hill Phase 2 by Mikhail Riches: less vibrancy, more subtlety
A decade after the Stirling-shortlisted first phase of regenerating Sheffield’s massive housing estate, the latest instalment retains more of the building’s original fabric
Moderne revival: VEEM, Eindhoven, by Caruso St John
Caruso St John’s retrofit of a listed 1940s warehouse, part of the former Philips factory in Eindhoven, Netherlands, provides a mix of housing above an abundance of statutory and commercial uses, writes Rob Wilson
Edward Williams Architects completes CLT car park infill housing scheme
Edward Williams Architects has completed its Chobham Road development, a 900m² housing scheme for developer Cliveden Land in the London Borough of Newham
Glenn Howells Architects completes Birmingham’s tallest residential tower
The Mercian, a build-to-rent 42-storey tower, comprises 481 new homes as well as extensive resident amenities and commercial units on Broad Street
AHMM completes 513-unit residential development in Croydon
Queen’s Quarter comprises four blocks of 35, 21, 19 and 13 storeys and is centred around Queen’s Gardens, a community-designed public park by landscape architecture practice Grant Associates
Fraser/Livingstone completes solid structural timber ‘tenement’ in Edinburgh
Fraser/Livingstone Architects has completed Simon Square, Scotland’s first commercial developer-led heavy timber residential development, containing six flats that maximise light
Hebridean blackhouse vs volume housebuilder home – energy profiles compared
In the second of three comparisons of historic and modern buildings, Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban look at the energy profiles of a pre-modern Hebrides blackhouse and a volume housebuilder home