The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
DROO completes building with ‘crumpled paper’ façade in east London
The 1,550m² building was formerly an artists workshop and art supplies shop on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch
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Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands completes 17-storey mixed-use scheme in Southwark
Six floors of hotel rooms integrate with restaurants, bars and function rooms plus 4,000m2 of flexible co-working office space
Barbican Art Gallery environmentally upgraded by RUFFarchitects
Emerging practice RUFF architects has overhauled the Grade II-listed exhibition space after winning the contract earlier this year
31/44 completes Shoreditch urban block redevelopment for Soho House
Redchurch Townhouse is the second phase of a redevelopment undertaken by 31/44 Architects for the members’ club and hotel chain
SOM completes 42-storey Manhattan Loft Gardens in London’s Stratford
The 143m tower combines rental apartments, a five-star hotel, two restaurants and cedar-lined sky gardens
Sandy Rendel completes mews terrace on former builders’ yard in Peckham
The £560,000 scheme consists of two new-build homes and the extension of an adjoining restaurant
Pitman Tozer places communal deck access at heart of mixed-use Hackney Wick scheme
The 71-home scheme in Tower Hamlets, developed jointly by Peabody and Hill, includes a central courtyard and sculptural stair
KPF completes Covent Garden mixed-use scheme
The complex is a mix of both reworked and new buildings, centred around a courtyard
Bureau de Change designs bespoke facade for ‘The Interlock’
The building incorporates 5,000 blocks of 44 different types to create a twisted facade
MJP Architects completes 26-storey tower in Stratford
The mixed-use tower, Aspire Point, contains 445 rooms for Queen Mary University of London students