The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Case study: WongAvery Music Gallery by Níall McLaughlin Architects
This music practice and performance space for Trinity Hall Cambridge is a free-standing pavilion in the centre of Avery Court. Photography by Nick Kane
Brick
Case studies and product information about brick, masonry and stone
Case study: White House School by vPPR
Modern methods of construction enabled the fast assembly of an early-years building for the White House Preparatory School in south London. Photography by Will Scott
Case study: The Lodge by Simon Gill Architects
This large, high-end domestic extension to Fulham Cemetery Lodge by Simon Gill Architects uses materials and details to create a dynamic relationship between old and new. Photography by James Brittain
Case study: Golders Green Crematorium by MortonScarr Architects
MortonScarr’s extension to Golders Green Crematorium uses brick decoratively to relate to the existing Grade II-listed building. A composition of solid and lattice brickwork, it is a contemporary take on the craftsmanship of the original structures. Photography by James French
Case study: Southwark SILS 3 by Tim Ronalds Architects
A Pupil Referral Unit in Peckham, south London, needed to provide a safe and calm educational environment that was also robust. Pale brick was used to create a scheme that avoids looking brutal and defensive. Photography by Jim Stephenson
Case study: Worcester Cathedral by Acanthus Clews
This retrofit of Worcester Cathedral’s undercroft into a learning centre is an exercise in detail and light-touch architecture. Photography by Andy Marshall and James Atkinson
Case study: Triangle House by Child Graddon Lewis
This refurbishment and extension of a small house in London’s Kentish Town has been designed to embrace a triangular footprint and the existing character of the site. Photography by Anthony Coleman
Case study: St Mary’s Church Rooms by Erect Architecture
Erect Architecture’s recently completed extension to the grade II* listed church St Mary Stoke Newington in North-East London adds a contemporary feel using punched bricks. Photography by David Grandorge
St Albans Cathedral by Simpson & Brown Architects
The original Bovingdon bricks of the cathedral were carefully matched in size, texture, colouring, ratio and distribution to carry out repairs to brickwork and to form the new walls, window openings and quoins as part of this extensive retrofit project. Photography by Giles Rocholl Photography
Case study: Corner House by 31/44 Architects
This conversion of a Victorian corner plot in south London reinterprets the adjacent terrace’s façade composition to ‘repair the existing out-of-pattern arrangement’. Photography by Rory Gardiner