The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
FCBS combines lean construction and natural ventilation in Sunderland spec office
The Beam has five floors of Grade A offices above ground-floor retail, a café and restaurant
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Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
BDG retrofits Amsterdam riverside Brutalist office building
The 1970s ‘Amsteldok’ has been redeveloped into 19,000m² of workspace for the world’s biggest advertising agency, WPP Group
GRID architects completes 98-flat scheme on South Bank
Belvedere Gardens consists of a series of blocks stepping up from 11 to 21 storeys, adjacent to the original 1962 Shell Centre building in London
Emerging practice Cuozzo Fleming completes Hackney mixed-use end-of-terrace scheme
At the end of Columbia Road, two commercial units at ground level and two flats above feature varied brick detailing and irregular windows
Child Graddon Lewis’s mixed-use Paddington block includes UK’s tallest school
The Dudley House scheme for Westminster City Council includes 197 affordable homes, a permanent home for Marylebone Boys’ Secondary School, a church and retail unit
Foster + Partners’ Principal Place development in Shoreditch completes
Principal Tower, the final piece of the Principal Place mixed-use scheme on the edge of the City of London, has completed
DROO completes building with ‘crumpled paper’ façade in east London
The 1,550m² building was formerly an artists workshop and art supplies shop on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands completes 17-storey mixed-use scheme in Southwark
Six floors of hotel rooms integrate with restaurants, bars and function rooms plus 4,000m2 of flexible co-working office space
Barbican Art Gallery environmentally upgraded by RUFFarchitects
Emerging practice RUFF architects has overhauled the Grade II-listed exhibition space after winning the contract earlier this year
31/44 completes Shoreditch urban block redevelopment for Soho House
Redchurch Townhouse is the second phase of a redevelopment undertaken by 31/44 Architects for the members’ club and hotel chain