The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Case study: Black Country Living by Napier Clarke Architects
A new visitor centre for the open-air museum in Dudley draws on the forms and materials of the attraction’s historic buildings. Photography by Lorenzo Zandri
Retrofit
Case studies and product information about sustainable architecture and retrofits
Case study: Roundhouse Works by Paddy Dillon, Reed Watts Architects and Allies and Morrison
Recycled railway sleepers are one of the elements used to form this creative centre for young people, part of the Roundhouse’s creative campus in London’s Chalk Farm. Photography by Fred Howarth
Case study: London South Bank University Hub by WilkinsonEyre
An extensive refurbishment of the university’s London Road building brings together a library, lecture theatres and other amenities as well as providing services for the community. Photography by Edmund Sumner
Case study: Belsize Park House by David Leech Architects
The practice has taken two flats in Hampstead – originally part of a single Victorian house – and converted them into a single home. Photography by Johan Dehlin, David Leech Architects
Case study: Pool Meadow Bus Station by Studio MUTT Architects
Studio MUTT has refurbished a 1990s Coventry bus station, adding a conservatory and art gallery