The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Moll Architects completes ‘hyperlocal’ terraced house extension
Moll Architects has completed an extension in Lambeth that reuses original yellow London stock brick as cladding and is fitted with bespoke furniture made by local craftsmen
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
Levitt Bernstein completes UAL Wimbledon College of Arts campus refit
Levitt Bernstein has completed the £10 million reworking and ‘rationalisation’ of the UAL College of Arts campus in Wimbledon
Intervention Architecture completes arched extension in Birmingham
Wisteria House in Birmingham by local practice Intervention Architecture is a two-storey side extension with double-height void, designed for future trailing of wisteria to wrap around its façades
JRA repurposes historic former Daily Mail HQ off Fleet Street
John Robertson Architects (JRA) has refurbished the former headquarters and printworks of the Daily Mail, which was in use as a newspaper office until the 1980s
Post-industrial renaissance: Civic House by Collective Architecture
The Glasgow practice has retrofitted a former printing works in the north of the city into a co-working hub, events space and canteen for Agile City
Marionettes to Minecraft: De Matos Ryan and AOC transform Young V&A
The Bethnal Green museum reopens on Saturday after a £13 million redevelopment by De Matos Ryan with displays by AOC. Rob Wilson finds a joyous if slightly jarring cacophony
National Portrait Gallery reopens to the public after major revamp
A refurbishment led by Jamie Fobert Architects, working with Purcell, has increased the National Portrait Gallery’s public space by a fifth, enhanced the entrance and added a learning centre
Sheppard Robson completes retrofit of 1960s Manchester music venue
The Grade II-listed New Century Hall, which has lain mostly vacant for years, has been upgraded and updated as part of Manchester’s NOMA development
Canice Architects adapts 18th-century Irish school building into a house
This conservation project in County Tipperary, Ireland, turns a Recorded Irish Monument with colourful history into a family home
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