Victoria House
Jessica Mairs2021-08-25T16:39:46+01:00Hutchinson & Partners has refurbished the neoclassical Victoria House building on London's Bloomsbury Square, transforming it into a refined oak- and marble-lined co-working office.
Lessons learnt: Kings Cross
Jessica Mairs2021-08-25T16:38:15+01:00Peter Bishop served as director of planning at the London Borough Camden from 2001 until 2006 when the Kings Cross development was being planned. He reflects on the project's ambitions and the factors that contributed to its success.
The Cheese Barge
Jessica Mairs2022-05-11T12:01:18+01:00Adam Richards Architects has designed a floating cheese restaurant in the Paddington Basin, featuring a patinated metal roof based on James Stirling's Bookshop Pavilion in Venice.
Morris+Company and Freehaus unveil City of London School redesign
AT Editor2021-07-02T11:12:41+01:00Morris+Company and Freehaus have won a competition to redevelop the Thames-side school with their design for a russet extension enclosing a courtyard and framing views to the river and St Paul’s Cathedral.
Museum of the Home
AT Editor2021-06-29T09:41:17+01:00Wright & Wright Architects has skilfully reworked London’s Museum of the Home, revitalising and extending the assemblage of 300-year-old almshouses the interiors museum occupies.
Serpentine Pavilion 2021 by Counterspace
Jessica Mairs2021-06-24T18:58:36+01:00The 2021 Serpentine Pavilion by Sumayya Vally of Johannesburg-based studio Counterspace splices together forms taken from meeting spaces – from bookshops to markets and places of worship – significant to migrant communities in London.
A1
Jessica Mairs2021-06-17T15:09:27+01:00A reflective aluminium block designed by Barozzi Veiga for Ravensbourne University’s Institute for Creativity and Technology is the first building to complete at the Greenwich Peninsula Design District in London.
Wooden Annex
Jessica Mairs2022-05-11T12:01:24+01:00Tsuruta Architects has added an entirely timber extension to a 1950s terrace in south London, using a flat-pack of over one thousand wooden parts assembled onsite like a piece of Ikea furniture.
House Recast
Jessica Mairs2021-06-22T18:12:03+01:00Studio Ben Allen's pigmented concrete extension to a Victorian terrace in Haringey has been named the winner of this year's Don't Move Improve! competition.
St Mary’s Centre
Jessica Mairs2021-06-14T16:41:46+01:00Erect Architecture has designed a textured brick community centre adjoining a church by Sir George Gilbert Scott in Stoke Newington, north London.
Ten Degrees
AT Editor2021-06-15T13:43:45+01:00HTA Design has completed the world’s tallest modular residential building in Croydon, south London.
Barbican Cinemas
AT Editor2021-06-09T19:03:01+01:00RUFF Architects has refurbished the much-loved cinemas at London’s Barbican Centre.