The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Piercy&Company completes refurb of Broadgate’s Exchange House
The practice has collaborated with artists, designers and makers to refurbish SOM’s iconic Exchange House in the City of London
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Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
Bindloss Dawes completes garage and workshop for car collection in Somerset
Bindloss Dawes has designed a five-bay timber garage and accompanying workshop to house a client’s collection of classic cars within the grounds of a Grade II-listed home
Coffey Architects retrofits SOM-designed Broadgate offices with ‘cycle-in’ entrance
The refurbishment of the 2004 building has saved an estimated 93 per cent embodied carbon compared with new build and reduced the building’s carbon footprint by 19 per cent
Galmstrup completes community centre in Scottish fishing town
Galmstrup Architects has redeveloped a former fish market and maritime heritage centre in Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders
JRA refurbishes and upgrades former warehouse to Grade-A City offices
Building 9 is one in a cluster of 12 commercial properties forming part of the Devonshire Square Estate near Spitalfields in the City of London
jmarchitects completes ‘bothy’ with tower at Clyde Gateway
The Glasgow office of jmarchitects has completed a £2.2 million ‘Bothy and Tùr’ in Cuningar Loop Forestry Park in South Lanarkshire to enhance visitor experiences
Timber all the way: The Black & White Building by Waugh Thistleton
When retrofitting a former Shoreditch warehouse proved unviable, The Office Group hired Waugh Thistleton Architects to replace it with what is now central London’s tallest mass timber office structure, the six-storey Black & White Building. How ambitious is its sustainability?
Greenaway Architecture retrofits 19th-century office in St James’s
This £615,000 project comprises the extensive refurbishment and extension of 19th century No 9 Mason’s Yard to create office space set among art galleries in St James’s, London
Hyperspace transforms old garage into ‘moody’ studio with bug-hotel façade
Hyperspace has created a 35m2 studio in Hertfordshire with a façade made of 850 scales of charred timber, contrasting with interior finishes of pale poplar plywood panels under white oiled timber rafters
Revisit: FCBS goes back to the Energy Efficient Office of the Future
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios associate Ron Nkomba talks about the practice’s experience of retrofitting the building it designed nearly 30 years ago for BRE