The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Herzog & de Meuron’s £135 million RCA Battersea campus building revealed
Swiss practice Herzog and de Meuron has completed its £135 million extension to the Royal College of Art’s (RCA) Battersea campus. Fran Williams checks it out
Education
The latest completed buildings from the education sector: schools, universities, nurseries and colleges
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios completes arts faculty for University of Warwick
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has brought together Warwick’s arts schools under one roof for the first time in a new £43 million arts faculty building
Homerton College Dining Hall by Feilden Fowles
Feilden Fowles has completed a faience-tiled dining hall for Homerton College, Cambridge, after winning an international open competition in 2017. Aoi Phillips visits the scheme
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
Allies and Morrison completes new arts and humanities faculty at Manchester Met
The 12,100m2 Grosvenor East building houses a mix of performing arts, journalism and languages alongside the newly established Manchester Poetry Library, a café, public foyers, exhibition space and 180-seat studio theatre
From modern to timeless: Níall McLaughlin’s Magdalene College Library
The New Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, is state-of-the-art yet still fits in with the college’s ‘brickwork tapestry’
BDP completes Welsh School of Architecture refurb
BDP has completed an extensive £9.7 million refurbishment of Cardiff University’s Bute Building, home to the Welsh School of Architecture (WSA)
Atomik Architecture updates west London school building with gridded extension
Atomik Architecture has extended and renovated Holland Park School’s listed Thorpe Lodge to create a reconfigured entrance, conserve original features and provide a new art studio in a £3.2 million makeover
Round the bend: Ivy Street by Sam Jacob
Sam Jacob Studio has completed its Ivy Street house-cum-playgroup project, seven years in the making, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Johan Dehlin
Case study: Southwark SILS 3 by Tim Ronalds Architects
A Pupil Referral Unit in Peckham, south London, needed to provide a safe and calm educational environment that was also robust. Pale brick was used to create a scheme that avoids looking brutal and defensive. Photography by Jim Stephenson