The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Exclusive: On site with Foster + Partners’ Principal Tower
Rob Wilson takes a look at Foster + Partners’ 175m-tall residential tower in the City of London as it nears handover. Photography by Nigel Young
Housing
Recently completed housing schemes including social housing, student accommodation, PRS and retirement homes
Fourth_space completes £3 million infill housing in Islington
The 10-unit Grosvenor Avenue scheme draws on a townhouse typology to infill a Victorian terrace
Bethnal Green Mission accomplished by Gatti Routh Rhodes
The £7 million mixed-use development – with a church at its heart – was designed by Gatti Routh Rhodes for the Bethnal Green Mission Church and developer Thornsett
Lipton Plant converts Whitechapel umbrella factory into apartments
The building’s former use has inspired the design of this £750,000 retrofit and extension
Studio 54 Architecture converts Art Deco Camden substation into flats
Retaining three of the original façades, this retrofit provides 21 new housing units
Newground Architects completes PRS scheme in Old Vinyl Factory development
Material Store, developed by HUB, provides 189 PRS homes including several triplex apartments
Coffey Architects completes its largest scheme to date for PegasusLife
The ‘Moor’s Nook’ retirement living scheme in Woking, Surrey, provides 34 one- and two-bedroom flats that wrap around a garden
Loggia life: Mae’s waterfront residential block at Brentford Lock West
Formed of two symmetrical linked pavilion-type forms, the 42-unit block is distinguished by deep loggias and a generous communal entrance atrium
Architype completes Passivhaus affordable housing in rural Shropshire
The £2 million scheme – drawing on local vernacular – aims to provide a model for rural developments in the West Midlands
Stephen Taylor Architects completes Antwerp dockside apartment block
Arranged over five levels and comprising a mix of 27 units, the development is given character by expressive brick and concrete detailing