Recalling the death of Richard Rogers a year ago reminds us of a time when the capital’s development was driven with a spirit of collaboration, purpose and fresh thinking, argues his former colleague Mark Brearley
Developed with Bordeaux-based Poggi Architecture for developer Matching Green, the 111-unit Dockley Apartments development is lent character by large balconies, generous communal areas and play spaces
It has been fascinating to see what has worked (and what has been less successful) in our recent series of building revisits, writes Emily Booth
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
dRMM’s Hastings Pier was hailed as a game-changer when it won the Stirling Prize in 2017 but within 12 months it had a new owner with very different plans for the attraction. Hayley Chivers visits the pier with three people who have had a close involvement with it. Photography by…
Artefact has completed the retrofit of a 1980s single-aspect house in Islington’s Grove Estate using pigmented timber to create key moves
Greg Moss spent eight years photographing the decommissioning and eventual demolition of Fawley Power Station in Hampshire. Fran Williams visits an exhibition displaying the results
The Blue House in east London was FAT’s first built project. Twenty years on, former director Sean Griffiths has remodelled and extended it, fulfilling its original design intention
Last month’s AJ Retrofit Live event, while sometimes fractious, showed how cross-disciplinary collaboration can foster innovation, writes Kunle Barker
Aparto Milan Giovenale comprises three interconnected volumes defining an urban block just south of Milan’s inner ring road and neighbouring the Bocconi University campus
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