The design of IF_DO’s new 320m² beach house in Thorpeness, which sits within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is intended to connect it to the surrounding landscape while offering first-floor views out to sea
Building review: Witherford Watson Mann’s ‘soft’ rework of the Courtauld Gallery
After a three-year closure London’s Courtauld Gallery has reopened. Rob Wilson visited and found a finely wrought retrofit sensitive to the spirit of the original building
O’DonnellBrown collaborates with artist on Motherwell park pavilion
The ‘Rainbow Pavilion’ designed with artist Kate V Robertson, in collaboration with local schoolchildren, is intended to accommodate and promote outdoor learning and events in Strathclyde Country Park
AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 shortlist: Houses and Housing
The AJ can reveal the final set of shortlists for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 in the House and Housing categories
AHMM’s Liverpool Alder Centre creates a healing environment
Part of the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital redevelopment in Liverpool, the centre provides bereavement services for those affected by the death of a child, creating a non-institutional background to grief, writes Rob Wilson
AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 shortlist revealed: Workplace
The AJ is pleased to reveal the third batch of projects shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2022: the four workplace categories
AJ Retrofit Awards 2022 shortlist revealed: Listed buildings, schools and universities
The AJ is pleased to reveal the second batch of projects shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2022
SPPARC completes retail development next to London’s Borough Market
The 16,400m2 Borough Yards development is based around a new public realm of pedestrian lanes and yard-like spaces linking the Thames to Borough Market, focused around a repurposed Victorian brick arched railway viaduct
Alison Brooks’ ‘extraordinary’ farmhouse extension wins RIBA House of the Year
Alison Brooks Architects’ Windward House has followed up its Manser Medal victory by scooping the RIBA House of the Year award
BDP-designed Elizabeth Line station in Whitechapel opens
The station, which Crossrail has handed over to Transport for London, sits within the Whitechapel Market Conservation area and incorporates the reinstated original entrance