The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Scapolan Burney completes Milton Keynes work-to-resi conversion
A 1980s city-centre Modernist building has been stripped back with the upper floors, previously offices, transformed into 200 flats
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
HTA Design completes another two Croydon modular towers
College Road, for volumetric developer Tide, comprises two adjoining towers providing a total of 937 new homes, including 817 co-living studios
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
Dowen Farmer completes three homes on London garage site
The Tollington development, in Finsbury Park, north London, consists of three townhouses on a tight, former backland garage site
Coffey completes housing, gallery and artists’ studios in Bermondsey
Coffey Architects has completed 400 mixed-tenure homes plus a gallery and studios in a series of new and retrofitted buildings in south London
LDS completes student housing and research facility in Olympic Park
One Pool Street, a pair of 13- and 17-storey towers accommodating over 550 student rooms, is part of the first phase of the new UCL East campus, together with Marshgate by Stanton Williams
dMFK completes 24-storey residential tower on Wembley brownfield site
The building for Barratt London, on a brownfield site close to Wembley Stadium, contains 229 homes and affordable workspace
ACME’s Folkestone Harbour Seafront comes to market
The first of a promenade of blocks set to transform Folkestone’s seafront under a masterplan by ACME has been erected, fitted-out and marketed. Will it transform the town’s fortunes too?
Citizens House by Archio: for the people by the people
The 11-home housing scheme, champions the community land trust model with Archio selected to design the scheme by members of the local community, writes Fran Williams. Photography French+Tye
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