The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Greenaway Architecture retrofits 19th-century office in St James’s
This £615,000 project comprises the extensive refurbishment and extension of 19th century No 9 Mason’s Yard to create office space set among art galleries in St James’s, London
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Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
Hyperspace transforms old garage into ‘moody’ studio with bug-hotel façade
Hyperspace has created a 35m2 studio in Hertfordshire with a façade made of 850 scales of charred timber, contrasting with interior finishes of pale poplar plywood panels under white oiled timber rafters
Revisit: FCBS goes back to the Energy Efficient Office of the Future
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios associate Ron Nkomba talks about the practice’s experience of retrofitting the building it designed nearly 30 years ago for BRE
Christ & Gantenbein creates ‘techno-Baroque’ corporate lobby in London
The Swiss practice’s design for the entrance to a mixed-use, former department store building on Oxford Street incorporates polished chrome elements such as circular mirrored columns and a black and white check marble floor
FCBS completes first building within Temple Leeds masterplan
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ Globe Point, with over 3,500m2 of workspace, is the first building to be completed within the Temple Leeds masterplan
Stagg Architects completes stripped-back workspace retrofit in Clerkenwell
The project retains and extends two buildings, connecting them with a grid of industrial-style glazing to give their spaces a new legibility
Morris + Company completes ‘intelligent’ Old Street workplace for Derwent
The 15,900m2 Featherstone Building uses ‘intelligent’ techniques to reduce its energy use
Mary Duggan Architects refurbishes Old Rectory in City of London
The building’s Grade II listed status called for a light-touch refurbishment with original rooms retained and new Victorian-style dressers added to conceal air-handling infrastructure
Building study: Entopia, Cambridge, by Architype
Architype and Feilden + Mawson’s retrofit of a 1930s telephone exchange into the Entopia Building for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has exemplary environmental credentials. But are they at the expense of its character and delight? asks Tom Holbrook. Photography by JackHobhouse/SOLK Photography
Ombú, Madrid: a very different kind of Fosters building
Ombú, Foster + Partners’ retrofit of a Madrid warehouse to create more than 10,000m2 of workspace, breathes new life into a historic building while being carbon neutral in operation