The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Fraser/Livingstone transforms former Edinburgh public toilet into restaurant
The £220,000 retrofit project replaces the building’s roof with a new trapezoidal pavilion perched over the water
Retail
Shops, shopping centres, hotels and restaurants
RSHP completes its first major mixed-use centre in Seoul
Parc 1, a US$1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) commercial complex featuring the largest shopping centre in Seoul, South Korea, has opened its doors, 16 years after its inception
M&S Oxford Street vs the Baths of Caracalla – energy profiles compared
In the first of three comparisons of historic and modern buildings, Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban examine the energy profiles of the Baths of Caracalla and Pilbrow & Partners’ proposed new M&S on Oxford Street
Tate + Co completes beachside loft suites for Cornish hotel
A building previously occupied by Jamie Oliver’s restaurant Fifteen Cornwall has been converted into beachfront hotel suites
Holloway Li designs Industrial Revolution-inspired showroom
The practice has completed a showroom and co-working space in Clerkenwell, London, for bathroom brand Coalbrook, inspired by the Industrial Revolution and costing £480,000
Is Liverpool One an exemplar of urban regeneration?
Iain Jackson revisits L1, completed in 2008 to a masterplan by BDP working with a stable of 26 architecture practices, to see how the huge urban regeneration scheme has bedded in
SPPARC completes retail development next to London’s Borough Market
The 16,400m2 Borough Yards development is based around a new public realm of pedestrian lanes and yard-like spaces linking the Thames to Borough Market, focused around a repurposed Victorian brick arched railway viaduct
Hayatsu Architects and Assemble refurbish historic market with can-clad clocktower
The architects have designed a series of interventions in Bermondsey’s Blue Market, aimed at revitalising it and better connecting it with the surrounding area
Adam Richards completes restaurant barge at Paddington Central
A 20m-long custom-built boat permanently moored at Paddington Central will host new restaurant The Cheese Barge
Moxon completes farm shop at Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Moxon Architects has inserted a new shop extension into the complex of converted buildings in Bruton which already consists of a contemporary art centre, hotel, restaurant and bar