The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Studio Weave adds timber retreat to stone cottage in Devon
Studio Weave has added a double-storey timber structure to the end of a stone cottage in the Blackdown Hills, Devon, completing the revival of a holiday home
Tag: Timber
David Miller Architects designs composite timber school in Reading
This new senior school building for private co-educational Crosfields School used off-site construction and cross-laminated timber to significantly reduce construction time while providing a warm, natural feel
Drava River pavilion, Slovenia
An open international competition – featuring a €3,000 prize fund – is being held for a new floating performance space on the Drava River in Maribor, Slovenia [Deadline: 31 May 2022]
Levitate completes timber cricket clubhouse in Surrey
London practice Levitate has completed a ‘light’ clubhouse for Valley End Cricket Club, clad in larch timber and featuring a large oversailing roof
Sauerbruch Hutton completes Berlin government offices with ‘wooden heart’
Commissioned, planned and constructed in barely 18 months, this new building in Berlin bucks the trend for German government projects being delayed and over-budget. Florian Heilmeyer visited it
Case study: D2, Greenwich Design District by Mole Architects
D2 features pyramid-profiled cladding that has a two-tone colour changing with the direction of the light, while fins in similarly dichroic glass surround the windows to refract coloured light over the façades. Photography by Taran Wilkhu
Dyvik Kahlen completes CLT Haringey community centre for Pocket Living
Dyvik Kahlen’s nursery and community centre sits at the gateway to Pocket’s West Green Place housing development,
‘Brexit, new work and Europe’s love for wood’ – why dRMM is setting up in Berlin
Stirling Prize-winning architect and timber pioneer dRMM has set up a European outpost in Berlin
Daab Design completes forest cabin in south of France
This timber-clad retreat near to Marseille cost just £80,000 to build. Today (Friday, 4 February) is the last day to enter AJ Small Projects 2022 if you have recently completed a project like this!
Concéntrico 08 pop-ups, Logroño
Spain’s Concéntrico 08 festival has launched a trio of international contests for landmark architectural interventions in the city of Logroño [Deadline: 11 March 2022]