The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
SOM completes 42-storey Manhattan Loft Gardens in London’s Stratford
The 143m tower combines rental apartments, a five-star hotel, two restaurants and cedar-lined sky gardens
Office
Workplace buildings including offices, studios, architects’ studios and workshops
Sandy Rendel completes mews terrace on former builders’ yard in Peckham
The £560,000 scheme consists of two new-build homes and the extension of an adjoining restaurant
Pitman Tozer places communal deck access at heart of mixed-use Hackney Wick scheme
The 71-home scheme in Tower Hamlets, developed jointly by Peabody and Hill, includes a central courtyard and sculptural stair
KPF completes Covent Garden mixed-use scheme
The complex is a mix of both reworked and new buildings, centred around a courtyard
Bureau de Change designs bespoke facade for ‘The Interlock’
The building incorporates 5,000 blocks of 44 different types to create a twisted facade
MJP Architects completes 26-storey tower in Stratford
The mixed-use tower, Aspire Point, contains 445 rooms for Queen Mary University of London students
Saharan guesthouse featuring traditional materials completed by Fiona Mckie Design
The £25,000 Moon Building, constructed from a traditional Egyptian building material, has been entered into AJ Small Projects – which closes for entries this Friday
Misremembrance of things past: 168 Upper Street by Amin Taha
Groupwork + Amin Taha’s retail and residential building for Aria replaces a demolished section of an Islington terrace with a deliberately misremembered concrete reconstruction, writes George Kafka. Photography Tim Soar
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
SPPARC completes mixed-use Music Box project in Southwark
The development in Union Street near Bankside contains the London College of Creative Media as well as 10 storeys of residential units