The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Gibson Thornley and Purcell complete V&A permanent photography gallery
The final phase of the UK’s largest permanent space dedicated to photography comprises four new gallery spaces and a fifth reworked area
RetroFirst
RetroFirst is an AJ campaign to prioritise retrofit over demolition and rebuild. Hundreds of architecture practices, organisations and individuals have declared their support for our campaign
Case study: Clapham Gallery by Common Ground Workshop
A warehouse in Clapham, south London, has been retrofitted into an art gallery, artist’s studio and sculpture garden. Photography by Ståle Eriksen
Studio McW completes rework of 18th-century Cambridgeshire house
This renovation of a traditional stone house includes three gabled extensions, picking up on the existing building’s proportions and local rural vernacular
HTA retrofits Hackney Wick warehouse as its own studio
The rework of four adjacent Victorian industrial buildings in east London into one interconnected workspace provides a new home for the practice’s 200 London staff
Charles Holland Architects playfully retrofits east London terraced house
The house has been reworked as a modern family home, using colour and decorative details while avoiding the tropes of a typical 21st-century extension
IF_DO transforms listed Suffolk barn into gallery
The conversion features a series of interventions that are mostly free-standing, demountable and reversible to facilitate minimal impact on the building
Deeper learning: Hall McKnight transforms disused basement for King’s College London
The Quadrangle project turns a disused double basement at King’s College London on the Strand into a modern engineering department
Trewhela Williams channels Donald Judd in London mews conversion
This conversion of an under-used, uninsulated garage into a habitable space for a growing family, has improved daylighting, cross-ventilation and passive surveillance from the interior
MATA extends and adds garden studio to London terraced house
This rework of practice director Dan Marks’ own house was partly driven by his family’s need for more space and individual autonomy with two children now reaching adolescence
Child Graddon Lewis retrofits listed Soho Georgian townhouse into offices
Soho Square is the refurbishment and extension of a Grade II-listed Georgian townhouse within the Soho Conservation Area, central London, overlooking the gardens of Soho Square