The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Butcher Bayley Architects clads Cambridge extension in pre-patinated copper
The Peterborough-based practice has used the metal to clad an extension to a Victorian mid-terrace home
Retrofit & sustainable
The AJ champions the retrofit of existing buildings with the AJ Retrofit Awards and the RetroFirst campaign. Here you can find good examples of how architects have reused existing buildings, or designed highly sustainable buildings
TAP completes cantilevered house within ruined Scottish mill
The £220,000 two-bedroom house sits on a narrow plot fronting a river towards which the first-floor cantilevered living room projects
Palimpsest project: Cassion Castle retrofit of Yorkton Workshops in Hackney
A dilapidated Victorian block in east London has been reworked as a studio for design office Pearson Lloyd, maintaining key traces of its history
Building study: Jonathan Hendry on his Anderby Creek retrofit project in Lincolnshire
With its Anderby Creek retrofit project in Lincolnshire, the practice has created a calming place to unwind that borrows its colours from its beachfront setting. Rob Wilson speaks to Jonathan Hendry about it
Mews studio reworked as apartment by Manalo & White
The insertion of a mezzanine ‘bedroom box’ transforms an artist’s workspace into a living space
Buckley Gray Yeoman retains 78 per cent of concrete frame in huge City of London retrofit
The practice has retained the majority of the existing concrete frame and reinstated a key pedestrian route as part of a £29 million overhaul of an inner city block
St John at Hackney Church restored by John Pawson and Thomas Ford & Partners
The £5.5 million project sees the church's Georgian spaces updated with a new oak interior, two chapels and a font, altar, lectern and processional cross designed by John Pawson
Piers Taylor completely remodels his AJ Small Projects-winning home
Winner of AJ Small Projects 2009, the house near Bath now prioritises massively upgraded thermal performance over the original innovative passive solar design
Beasley Dickson adds GRC-clad extension to ‘Italianette’ Islington house
Beasley Dickson Architects has refurbished a house with existing Italian-style flavours by adding extensions to the basement, ground floor, above the closet wing and in the loft
Chinese takeaway reworked by Stonewood Design as its new studio
A new steel structure and mezzanine floor have been inserted to open up the building's original but gutted 17th and 18th-century envelope