The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Cornerstone, Glasgow by Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects
Set in stone: gm + ad’s Cornerstone building has the sturdiness that Glasgow’s historic core of Georgian and Victorian city blocks demands, writes Penny Lewis. Photography by John Barr
Office
Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
Broadgate Tower, City of London by SOM
SOM’s Broadgate Tower is a work of manoeuvre and negotiation, shaped by the invisible constraints of the City of London, writes Rowan Moore. Photography by Edmund Sumner
Innovate Green Office, Leeds by Rio Architects
Rio Architects’ Innovate Green Office in Leeds has achieved the highest ever BREEAM rating.
Offices for Loch Lomond National Park Authority by Page Park Architects
After two years of intensive engineering research, Glasgow-based Page\Park Architects’ new headquarters for the Loch Lomond National Park Authority opened in May 2008.
Power Road Studios by De Metz Green
De Metz Green has re-tuned the 1930s Power Road Studios in west London to appeal to creative companies whose employees like to blur the distinction between leisure and work
Creative angle
The triangular plan form of Computer Associates’ parkland headquarters by Blair Associates offers a luxurious office idyll for the company’s executives
Adding a splash of colour
Media makeovers don’t come much brighter than Hugh Broughton Architects’ refurbishment of Channel 5’s atrium. It is a chameleon space, intimate and colourful at night but cool, white and spacious during the day
Royal proclamation
Matthew Lloyd Architects’ Shoreditch warehouse refurbishment for the Prince’s Foundation reveals the art of the ordinary and declares the school’s agenda with its striking ventilation cowls
Expressive engineering
building study Sir Owen Williams’ 1930s Daily Express building on Fleet Street has regained its dramatic street elevation with Hurley, Robertson and Associates’ bold mixture of preservation and innovation