The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
BuckleyGrayYeoman completes controversial Whitechapel office
The architect’s reworked refurbishment of a former department store retains ‘one of the best visual jokes in London’
Office
Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
HUT Architecture completes office retrofit in Clerkenwell
Haywards Place draws upon the ‘bottle green’ original colour scheme of the 18th-century building as a key feature of the fit-out
John Robertson Architects clads 1980s building with blue terracotta tiles
Academy House on London’s Oxford Street has been transformed into an office and retail space
Bennetts completes Royal College of Pathologists HQ in Aldgate
The 4,500m² purpose-built building steps back at sixth-floor level to provide panoramic views over London
TateHindle reclads 1970s office in Clerkenwell with large-format ceramic tiles
The £8.4 million refurbishment creates naturally lit, spacious office space for Macmillan Publishers
AHMM completes major mixed-use retrofit project in Old Street
The Bower, a new 48,300m² mixed-use quarter next to London’s Old Street roundabout, has taken six years to complete
FaulknerBrowns completes porcelain tile-clad office in County Durham
The Newcastle-based practice specified large-format porcelain panels for an electrical company’s new headquarters
Heralding the new stone age: Amin Taha’s 15 Clerkenwell Close
Groupwork + Amin Taha’s controversial stone‑fronted office and residential building at 15 Clerkenwell Close is a serious building that nevertheless displays a lightness of touch, says Rob Wilson. Photography Tim Soar, Jim Stephenson
Piercy & Company completes co-working space in Reading
A Category B fit-out designed as a shared workspace employs acoustic-enhancing technologies and a ’luxurious’ palette of materials
Sheppard Robson designs stepped office hub with civic ‘town hall’ centre
The anodised aluminium workplace, designed for troubled construction firm Interserve, creates an ‘object’ building designed to help seed regeneration to the east of Birmingham