The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Building study: De Beauvoir Block by Henley Halebrown
With its scheme for east London’s Benyon Estate, the practice has created a potent melting pot for start-ups and small businesses, says Jon Astbury. Photography David Grandorge, Nick Kane
Office
Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
Russian for Fish’s new studio space is set up for collaborative work
The 70m² space in Bethnal Green is designed to accommodate both the practice and five other small architecture practices
Copper-clad: astudio refreshes office block at 70 Wilson Street
Summit House and the adjacent Grade II-listed No 46 Worship Street in central London have been refurbished and extended
Orms riffs on the Art Deco spirit with retrofit of 1930s building
Orms has completed the refurbishment and extension of Commonwealth House as a mixed-use scheme on behalf of TH Real Estate
Surman Weston inserts stained glass screen into former Victorian church
The dramatic intervention acts as a privacy screen for this live/work space in Islington
Scott Brownrigg retrofits an office the practice built in 1985
The reworking of Victoria Gate in Woking, a commercial office building for Aviva Investors, sees the addition of 25 per cent lettable floor space
Block party: AHMM’s Weston Street apartment and office building
Ten years in the making, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s slow-cooked mansion block in Bermondsey, for Solidspace, is the latest of the developer’s signature split-level eat-live-work projects, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Timothy Soar
Flagship HQ for National Bank of Oman in Muscat completed by LOM
The 50,000m² building is laid out over nine floors including two basements, and stands on a prominent site near the Grand Mosque and the city centre
tp bennett’s Slough building is first UK office to receive WELL certification
A focus on occupants’ wellbeing has seen the Porter Building become the first office in the UK to achieve WELL Building Gold Standard certification
SimpsonHaugh completes two offices in newly developed areas of Manchester
The 12 and 20-storey towers, primarily providing offices, are located in Spinningfields and the Civic Quarter