Architects Declare's manifesto to transform the built environment highlights the urgent need for climate literacy across the board. Isabel Allen asks if it's time to introduce compulsory training in the knowledge and skills required.
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London studio Knox Bhavan has retrofitted and extended an early Victorian villa on Love Walk in Camberwell, south London.
Development director at General Projects, Ben Cross talks to AT about retrofitting two major buildings in London and what the market for retrofit is like at the moment and moving forward.
As Smithfield Market gears itself for radical transformation, social entrepreneur and chief executive of Projekt, Nick Hartwright, talks to AT about Studio Smithfield, a new creative hub found above the Meat Market in Smithfield’s Northwest Quadrant.
Retrofit specialists Morrow + Lorraine add a building-on-top-of-a-building to two high-tech commercial blocks built in 1991 by Arup Associates led by Peter Foggo. Â
Office S&M has given the Nag’s Head Market in Seven Sisters, North London, a new lease of life, adding a mezzanine level, creating new routes through and improving spaces for traders.
Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries have turned a former barbershop in Battersea into a flexible home, an office and a place for trade.
TateHindle has completed the new Salvation Army UK and Ireland Headquarters in Camberwell, south London.
AT chats to Justine Simons, deputy mayor for culture and creative industries, about Creative Land Trusts, how new cultural venues are being established in London, and the efforts being made to aid cultural preservation.
Photos reveal Mae’s project in Southwark, south east London which caters for multi-generational living on what was once part of the Aylesbury Estate.
"It's made us better architects." Surman Weston discuss with AT everything from buying the site at auction to being a main contractor for the project.
Allies and Morrison has seen its design for the London College of Fashion in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park open to students – and the public in east London.
