The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Gruff’s extension to south London home features planted internal courtyard
The £300,000 extension for this south London home includes an internal courtyard bringing lots of planting into the centre of the building
Small project & extension
House extensions and refurbishments, plus other small-scale or budget projects undertaken by architects. Find out more about AJ Small Projects here
House in Surrey by Tigg + Coll features soaring ‘diagrid’ timber canopy roof
The 240m² family home has been designed to accommodate two children with complex needs
Barbican flat reworked as ‘small universe’ by Takero Shimazaki Architects
The apartment mixes influences from both traditional Japanese architecture and European Classicism
fourth_space completes mews house extension in Shoreditch infill site
The 85m² house, on a infill site in east London, features hand-painted imitation exposed concrete walls
Purcell renovates former brewery to create Cornish archive centre
The 4,840m² Kresen Kernow is a new archive centre which holds a vast collection of documents relating to Cornwall’s history
Sea and sandstone: Shingle House by Flower Michelin Architects
The renovation and extension of a seaside home on Scotland’s west coast combines traditional vernacular form with local craftsmanship to create a distinctive and striking retrofit, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Fred Howarth
RISE Design Studio completes Douglas fir-lined extension to London house
The 180m² project features an oriel window which sits in dialogue with a third-floor reading pod
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
From Works completes white timber loft conversion in Blackheath
Emerging architecture, interior and furniture design practice From Works has reconfigured a south London house and added a 26m² dormer loft conversion