Barbershop duet
Jason Sayer2024-12-19T16:40:13+00:00Brisco Loran and Arrant Industries have turned a former barbershop in Battersea into a flexible home, an office and a place for trade.
Clare College recalibrated
Jason Sayer2024-12-19T16:40:13+00:00Witherford Watson Mann’s carefully considered addition to the second oldest college at Cambridge delicately improves access to the college and adds a new riverfront café.
LVL up
Jason Sayer2023-04-18T15:46:54+01:00Designed by Waugh Thistleton Architects for The Office Group, the Black and White Building offers a sustainable home for offices in East London.
Walcot Square by FORMstudio
Jason Sayer2023-01-10T14:59:01+00:00James Soane reviews FORMstudio’s new mews in the Kennington Conservation area, a scheme that sees five two-storey and basement split-level houses replace a series of garages on a brownfield site.
Bricking it: Battersea power station primed to open to the public
Jason Sayer2022-11-22T12:16:20+00:00The much-loved South London icon is finally set to be open to the public (for real this time) welcoming visitors into its WilkinsonEyre-refurbished insides on 14 October.
Born again: St John’s Waterloo renovated by Eric Parry
Jason Sayer2022-11-22T12:16:20+00:00Eric Parry Architects has given a new lease of life to the Grade II* listed St John’s church in Waterloo, which only just survived the Blitz.
University challenge
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:21+00:00Keith Williams charts a programme of bold, creative commissioning that has transformed the London School of Economics’ cramped, fragmented estate into a world-class campus.
Mae designs John Morden Centre for older people
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:23+00:00Mae has designed a community building that provides well-being and recreational facilities for the later living residents of London’s Morden College in Blackheath. Mary Duggan appreciates a sophisticated, humane design that reflects and anticipates social change.
Kinning Park Complex
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-12-18T21:27:03+00:00Richard Lavington applauds New Practice’s sympathetic and intelligent reworking of a vital, multi-use community resource in Glasgow Southside.
Mole Architects deploys CLT for Design District studios
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:28+00:00Waugh Thistleton associate director Kirsten Haggart reviews the Rhomboid and Ziggurat by Mole Architects, a pair of buildings in the Greenwich Design District with mass timber structures.
San Salvatore
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:31+00:00Pierre d’Avoine Architects has converted a chapel in rural Umbria into a private house. Louis Mayes explores a project that weaves ecclesiastical structures and spaces into a contemporary home.
200 Becontree
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:33+00:00Archio has created two ‘super-sized’ villas containing dense infill housing on east London’s historic Becontree Estate. Marwa El Mubark enjoys a contemporary project that builds on the social aspirations of the original designs.