Fran Williams
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jmarchitects completes ‘bothy’ with tower at Clyde Gateway
The Glasgow office of jmarchitects has completed a £2.2 million ‘Bothy and Tùr’ in Cuningar Loop Forestry Park in South Lanarkshire to enhance visitor experiences → Read More
Adjaye Associates’ interfaith centre Abu Dhabi: full set of photos and drawings
The 6,500m2 Abrahamic Family House in Saadiyat Cultural District is a new centre for learning and practice of faith, encompassing three separate houses of → Read More
Immersive venue designed by Haworth Tompkins opens in King’s Cross
Haworth Tompkins has completed a new cultural venue in London’s King’s Cross for digital exhibitions → Read More
Curl la Tourelle Head completes Sutton social housing
Many of the sites chosen were tucked away, often occupied by run-down garages or lock-ups, and affected by fly-tipping. The architects designed 28 homes → Read More
NVB Architects completes ‘tree house’ primary school near Swindon
Located on a steeply sloping site at the southern end of the town of Wootton Bassett near Swindon, the new facility is accessed via a play deck at the → Read More
RSHP’s modular homes among only four finalists for RSAW Awards 2023
Just four buildings have been shortlisted for the The Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW) Welsh Architecture Awards – the first stage of the region’s RIBA Awards 2023 → Read More
Park Hill architect features on shortlist for 2023 MJ Long Prize
Park Hill retrofit architect Amy Waite of Mikhail Riches is among the architects shortlisted for the 2023 MJ Long Prize, part of the AJ and AR’s W Awards → Read More
Part W collective wins the inaugural W Awards research prize
Campaign group Part W has won the inaugural Prize for Research in Gender and Architecture 2023, part of AR/AJ’s W Awards, for its mapping project Women’s Work: London → Read More
AJ Retrofit Awards 2023 final shortlists: Workplace
The AJ is pleased to announce the final set of AJ Retrofit Awards shortlists in the three workplace categories → Read More
AJ Retrofit Awards 2023 shortlist reveal: house and listed building
The best retrofit of a house with a project value of up to £500,000 is a bumper category this year with 16 schemes shortlisted. Among them are: Studio → Read More
Timber all the way: The Black & White Building by Waugh Thistleton
When retrofitting a former Shoreditch warehouse proved unviable, The Office Group hired Waugh Thistleton Architects to replace it with what is now central London’s tallest mass timber office structure, the six-storey Black & White Building. How ambitious is its sustainability? → Read More
Nine projects shortlisted for 2023 RIBA East Midlands awards
Daykin Marshall's extension to a George Gilbert Scott cottage in rural Lincolnshire is among the nine buildings shortlisted for this year’s RIBA East Midlands regional awards → Read More
Latest AJ Retrofit Awards 2023 shortlists: Education, Leisure and Housing
The AJ can reveal the second set of shortlists for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2023 in the Higher Education and Campus, School and Further Education, Hotel, Retail and Leisure, and Housing categories → Read More
Greenaway retrofits 19th century office in St James’s
This £615,000 project comprises the extensive refurbishment and extension of 19th century No. 9 Mason’s Yard to create office space set among art galleries in St James’s, London → Read More
First of the AJ Retrofit Awards 2023 shortlists revealed
The AJ can exclusively reveal the first set of shortlists for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2023: the cultural and religious; and health and community categories → Read More
RIBA London awards 2023: all 92 shortlisted projects revealed
Three schemes by Peter Barber Architects are among a ‘bumper crop’ of 92 projects shortlisted for this year’s RIBA London regional awards → Read More
Knox Bhavan completes brick pool house disguised as wall
The practice has completed a low-lying brick pool house for the owners of a Georgian property in Pembury near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, nestled into a slope in the garden → Read More
Reed Watts completes 78 homes in Barking for Pocket Living
The scheme is arranged in two blocks of six and four storeys with expressed vertical circulation, creating a new edge to Barking Town Centre and marking → Read More
NBBJ’s delayed £1 billion Royal Liverpool Hospital finally opens
The 95,000m² hospital sits next to the former 1970s facility on the same site in central Liverpool, and includes 641 single en-suite bedrooms including 40 → Read More
6a’s ‘twin’ Greenwich Design District buildings complete
6a Architects’ A2 and B2 buildings are nearly identical, both being wrapped in a diamond pattern of glass and terrazzo stone cladding and having one steeply sloping side → Read More