The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Conform completes texture-rich rework of Hampstead garden flat
The design reorientates the living spaces out towards the garden, with materials ranging from green terrazzo to clay-toned plaster, exposed concrete and oak cabinetry
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
Cullinan Studio completes 119 infill homes for Camden Council
The practice, working with delivery architect ECE Westworks, has completed the housing in Camden’s Maitland Park Estate, including 51 council homes
Coffey Architects completes ‘village life’-inspired later living housing
Coffey Architects has completed Cobham Bowers, a residential development for retirement living specialist Pegasus
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
Avanti completes housing and special needs school for Lewisham Council
The development in Sydenham, south-east London, provides 26 homes for families with temporary housing needs and six assisted living units as well as a specialist school
Squire & Partners completes mixed-use building in Westminster
The 4,000m2 Art Deco-inspired red sandstone workspace building at 18-20 Greycoat Place also includes duplex apartments on its upper floors
Alter completes series of homes on the Sussex Downs
The four two-storey homes aim to be a testbed for backland developments