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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Narrow in harrow! 🍋 💦 London and Milan-based outfit @ciao_archi has won approval for a £1.2 million scheme on a tight, unused car park site in Harrow. The 496m² mixed-use development consists of six flats and one ground-floor commercial unit and sits on a narrow plot close to Harrow and Wealdstone Station in north-west London. The site will be overlooked by a pair of five-storey residential schemes: the existing Birchfield House to the west and a proposed new development to the east. To avoid overlooking issues and ensure there is enough private amenity space, the scheme's massing features a series of voids and setbacks. Discover more of the plans, renders and drawings – and picis of the current site – online today!
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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A perfect new park has been beamed in to Brent Cross! 🏞️ 🎢 🎳 ☀️ East Architects has designed the Brent Cross Exploratory, a temporary park which opened in August and is intended to last for several years until the permanent Claremont Park is completed. It replaces the Rosa Freedman Centre and Clarefield Park and reuses landforms, paths and trees and the centre’s foundations as well as its spire, maintaining this as a local landmark. ♻️ 🗼 The park is intended as a ‘public space incubator’, providing an amenity for the local area and as a first step in the development of Brent Cross South's open spaces. It is part of the £5 billion Brent Cross Town scheme being developed in partnership by Argent Related and Barnet Council. 📷 John Sturrock – discover all the pics of the Exploratory on the AJ today!
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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This suburban-type house in Cramond Village, on the western outskirts of Edinburgh, has been insulated and internally reconfigured and refurbished by @tap_architects. Taking a cue from the unusual precast concrete stone-effect façade that had once been grafted on to the street-side to create a grander street frontage, the exterior of the new L-shaped extension has been wrapped in a perforated, powder-coated aluminium mesh trellis. This is intended to 'soften' the façade to the south-facing garden, encouraging plant growth over it. 🌿 🌱 🌴 🌾 Check out the full First Look online today! 📷 @davidbarbour
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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What do you think of this kitchen? @alderbriscoarc have completed this new extension which occupies the site of an earlier two-storey wing which had contained garage and kitchen extensions with adjoining pantry and utility rooms. With the garage suffering from subsidence and the kitchen landlocked out of reach of the house's fine gardens – previously cultivated by the plant geneticist who had lived there – the family decided to commission a new art studio and kitchen-dining space to replace the cluster of tight cellular spaces. Discover the exterior and more interior images, as well as project data and drawings online today! 📷 @buildingnarratives Kitchen carpentry by @peternencini featuring cabinetry by @naked_doors
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Another look at this recent barn conversion to studio by @hugohardy_architect. It was converted into an artist's studio for £200,000 in two phases. Structurally, the existing brick shell has been filled with a braced timber frame acting as stilts for the upper floor and roof – creating what is essentially a simple trussed building braced with Cor-ten weathering steel. As the architect says 'too often, in the wrong hands the conversion of old barns can destroy the very reason for the conversion of an old building. The clients, an engineer and a fine-art artist, waited four years to realise this project, as local community and planning opposition was intense.' Discover more of the story of this project, the drawings and photographs at the AJ online today! 📷 @siobhandoranphotography
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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AJ architecture editor @robguywilson explores Ditton Hill House by @surmanweston in a recent building study: 'the main superstructure is formed of a steel frame, chosen for ease and rapidity of construction on site. This is topped by a series of giant triangular steel trusses, which enabled the flexibility of large, clear-span spaces to be created below. The whole is highly insulated, and its exposed external ‘cold’ steel frame galvanised for durability; separated from an internal ‘hot’ steel frame, which supports the floors and internal blockwork walls, the frames are connected at a minimum number of highly insulated connectors points. It is these trusses that also define and create the scale and slope of the enormous ‘wendy-house’ gable – within which the first floor sits – and that nicely provide an over-scaled echo of the gables of the property’s Tudorbethan neighbours.' Ditton Hill House has recently been shortlisted by AJ sister title @thearchitecturalreview for the AR House Awards 2020. Discover all the photos and drawings online today! 📷 @johan_dehlin
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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This is the first purpose-built new-build community centre to be built in the heart of Soho for generations, located within the renowned @thephoenixgarden. It is the subject of one of 31 @openhouselondon films complementing an unusual festival year due to the impact of Covid-19. Open House have launched 3-minute films taking viewers through the keyhole of London's hidden architectural gems. Designed by Office Sian Architecture + Design @gurmeet_sian the arched opening in the brick wall leads to a community centre, lined internally with glazing that looks out onto garden hidden from the street. 🌱 🌾 🌲 🌿 🌳 Read our Q&A with the Open House team who led this project (and watch the film too!) on the Aj today! 📷 @clickclickjim
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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@johnpardey_jpa is waiting to see if plans for this private home will get approved. As the architect says 'part of the success of the design will be how the house interacts with the site so we worked with Charlotte Rathbone of the Rathbone Partnership Landscape Practice to provide a landscape that would heal the suburban past of the site. The wider site is to be re-wilded with wildflower meadows and the existing woodland will be managed and extended with new tree planting. As the landscape approaches the house, it becomes a little more tamed' – as you can see here in this courtyard space. Check out the full designs online today!
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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This two-storey studio in Hertfordshire has been converted from a derelict industrial barn into timber-lined artist’s studio by @hugohardy_architect Reclaimed and local handmade materials have been used to renovate the space, taking into consideration how the material weathers, its texture and finish, to complement contemporary detailing. Check out the full first look online today! 📷 @siobhandoranphotography
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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@haverstockarchitects have completed this new crematorium at Lea Fields, located in parkland near the village of Lea in Lincolnshire and consisting of a foyer, chapel, cremator and ancillary spaces. The chapel itself is designed to be flexible and high-performing, the form of its folded suspended soffit intended to give a sense of occasion, without dictating specific religious bias. ⚱️ Discover the full First Look online today 📷 @jonathanwgooch
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Due to the impact if Covid-19, in 2020 @openhouselondon – the largest festival of the urban landscape in the UK – has launched a series of 31 original films opening up buildings all across London that are normally closed to the public. Every year there will be those who can't make it to the actual open houses and explore in person, so while these films may have been prompted by coronavirus restrictions, they provide access to all (as well as an ongoing record of the buildings featured); 'an online but intimate version of Open House that everyone could enjoy.'
Pictured here is Salters' Hall – you can watch the full Open House film tour of this Brutalist building online today! Completed in 1976 to the designs of Sir Basil Spence of Spence Bonnington Collins, Salters’ Hall is an unusual example of a post-war Livery Company Hall. Built in the Brutalist style, it is Grade II-listed and features an impressive exterior featuring knapped, ribbed and fluted concrete. Following an extensive redevelopment by de Metz Forbes Knight Architects in 2016, the building is re-oriented to the east by the addition of a new glass and concrete entrance pavilion, providing a grand sense of arrival to the Hall which was missing from the previous entrance.
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Jan 01 1970 GMT00:33
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Meet @perp_architect – the latest to feature in the AJ's New Practice series. Founded in January 2020, Aelene Thorne and Patrick Usborne 'met in the corridors of the Architectural Association while queuing for diploma interviews and our 12-year discussion about setting up practice started there and continued throughout our time with @fcbstudios and @maearchitects (Aelene), and with @chrislee.serie at Serie Architects (Patrick). But it was our time at @drmmarchitects @drmmarchitects_studio, particularly on engineered timber projects, that solidified our passion for great quality, socially useful, and sustainable design. Perpendicular emerged from discussions about how to pair genuine environmental and social responsibility with innovation in offsite construction for healthier and happier living.' Swipe up in our story to read the full interview and learn about their young practice!
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Oct 04 2020 GMT07:55
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This two-storey studio in Hertfordshire has been converted from a derelict industrial barn into timber-lined artist’s studio by @hugohardy_architect Reclaimed and local handmade materials have been used to renovate the space, taking into consideration how the material weathers, its texture and finish, to complement contemporary detailing. Check out the full first look online today! 📷 @siobhandoranphotography
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This post got 56% more likes
compared to @architectsjournal's average. It uses 11% more hashtags
and its caption is 45% shorter
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Oct 08 2020 GMT06:55
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Another look at this recent barn conversion to studio by @hugohardy_architect. It was converted into an artist's studio for £200,000 in two phases. Structurally, the existing brick shell has been filled with a braced timber frame acting as stilts for the upper floor and roof – creating what is essentially a simple trussed building braced with Cor-ten weathering steel. As the architect says 'too often, in the wrong hands the conversion of old barns can destroy the very reason for the conversion of an old building. The clients, an engineer and a fine-art artist, waited four years to realise this project, as local community and planning opposition was intense.' Discover more of the story of this project, the drawings and photographs at the AJ online today! 📷 @siobhandoranphotography
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This post got 48% more likes
compared to @architectsjournal's average. It uses 11% more hashtags
and its caption is 1% longer
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Oct 09 2020 GMT06:55
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What do you think of this kitchen? @alderbriscoarc have completed this new extension which occupies the site of an earlier two-storey wing which had contained garage and kitchen extensions with adjoining pantry and utility rooms. With the garage suffering from subsidence and the kitchen landlocked out of reach of the house's fine gardens – previously cultivated by the plant geneticist who had lived there – the family decided to commission a new art studio and kitchen-dining space to replace the cluster of tight cellular spaces. Discover the exterior and more interior images, as well as project data and drawings online today! 📷 @buildingnarratives Kitchen carpentry by @peternencini featuring cabinetry by @naked_doors
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This post got 34% more likes
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Oct 03 2020 GMT07:15
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@haverstockarchitects have completed this new crematorium at Lea Fields, located in parkland near the village of Lea in Lincolnshire and consisting of a foyer, chapel, cremator and ancillary spaces. The chapel itself is designed to be flexible and high-performing, the form of its folded suspended soffit intended to give a sense of occasion, without dictating specific religious bias. ⚱️ Discover the full First Look online today 📷 @jonathanwgooch
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This post got 125% more likes
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Oct 09 2020 GMT06:55
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What do you think of this kitchen? @alderbriscoarc have completed this new extension which occupies the site of an earlier two-storey wing which had contained garage and kitchen extensions with adjoining pantry and utility rooms. With the garage suffering from subsidence and the kitchen landlocked out of reach of the house's fine gardens – previously cultivated by the plant geneticist who had lived there – the family decided to commission a new art studio and kitchen-dining space to replace the cluster of tight cellular spaces. Discover the exterior and more interior images, as well as project data and drawings online today! 📷 @buildingnarratives Kitchen carpentry by @peternencini featuring cabinetry by @naked_doors
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This post got 100% more likes
compared to @architectsjournal's average. It uses 16% more hashtags
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Sep 25 2020 GMT06:55
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Meet @perp_architect – the latest to feature in the AJ's New Practice series. Founded in January 2020, Aelene Thorne and Patrick Usborne 'met in the corridors of the Architectural Association while queuing for diploma interviews and our 12-year discussion about setting up practice started there and continued throughout our time with @fcbstudios and @maearchitects (Aelene), and with @chrislee.serie at Serie Architects (Patrick). But it was our time at @drmmarchitects @drmmarchitects_studio, particularly on engineered timber projects, that solidified our passion for great quality, socially useful, and sustainable design. Perpendicular emerged from discussions about how to pair genuine environmental and social responsibility with innovation in offsite construction for healthier and happier living.' Swipe up in our story to read the full interview and learn about their young practice!
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This post got 25% more likes
compared to @architectsjournal's average. It uses 5% more hashtags
and its caption is 13% longer