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Collective Heat Island design workshop for Shadow Robot Company in London
The 400m² workshop features a bespoke CNC-cut timber modular system which was manufactured off-site using digital fabrication
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
Child Graddon Lewis transforms primary school with GRC ‘vertical’ extension
The £8 million extension and refurbishment of the east London school ressurects its pre-war form with a light grey vertical extension
Merrett Houmøller Architects ‘strips back’ Hackney apartment
A previously anodyne, awkwardly-shaped London flat has been refreshed by using a simplified palette of materials
Bracken House refurbished by John Robertson Architects for Financial Times
Rework of post-war classic sees the Financial Times move back into the building originally designed as its HQ
Gresford Architects casts Hackney extension out of pink concrete
An Italian fantasy film has inspired the single-storey extension, which has been constructed from pink fair-faced concrete
Architype completes archive for Imperial War Museums in Duxford
The 1,240m² ‘paper store’ has been designed to Passivhaus standard and features a façade clad in perforated Cor-ten panels
Piercy & Co completes church with ‘abstracted spire’ in west London
The scheme wraps around a Grade II-listed chapel and has now been completed after a seven-year design process
Building study: Institute of Physics by TateHindle
The practice’s radical reworking of a 19th-century terrace in London’s King’s Cross creates a more outward-looking and contemporary headquarters for the institute, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Dirk Lindner
Page\Park turns former welly factory into printmakers
Edinburgh Printmakers’ new creative hub is located within the former headquarters of the North British Rubber Company
Gibson Thornley converts Georgian townhouse to office space in Clerkenwell
The £1.7 million project consists of a ground-floor rear extension with restoration to internal fixtures