JTP’s four-tower Old Kent Road scheme gets the green light

Ground-floor amenities could include a new GP surgery, a grocery store, a café, and a 92m2 community hub, as well as a range of facilities for students. Two of the buildings will be for student accommodation – rising to 33 and 19 storeys each – with one stepped 20-storey tower for social rent affordable homes and … ادامه

This month’s AJ demonstrates why we all need a good home

This is also something that strongly comes across in this issue of the AJ, which focuses on later living. I’m not sure about you, but I’d always thought of almshouses as quaint curiosities in the city, mostly irrelevant when considering how the older generation might like to live out their autumn years in the twenty-first … ادامه

Sketchbook: AHMM Sketch Club

The club was set up by Luis Torres in 2014, with overwhelming support from the practice’s founders and colleagues. Luis brought his observational skill as a senior architectural assistant and representational skill as an artist and set up a friendly and inviting space for his colleagues to learn and develop skills, creating a vital addition … ادامه

Winner of Bristol contest for 100% affordable housing named

The Midland Road design competition represented a unique opportunity to engage with a number of locally based architectural practices, to tease out innovative designs for a complex, inner-city, brownfield site. Shortlisted teams for the Midland Road competition each received a £1,500 honorarium to further develop their ideas, to participate in community engagement and to receive … ادامه

The Harriet Hardy Extra Care Centre by Mæ

  Project data While it was not possible to see inside the flats, they are all designed to be 10 per cent larger than the Parker Morris Standards and access is planned to Part M(4), with generous circulation and open-plan layouts for ease of movement of wheelchairs. Low window ledges in the living spaces further … ادامه

London School of Architecture Part 2 student wins RIBA President’s Silver Medal

Ellie Harding, a postgraduate at the school and the first ever LSA student to win the award, won the President’s Silver Medal for her project ‘Nobody wants to live in a care home’. Harding’s project focuses on design for people with Alzheimer’s, looking at its effect on spatial perception, and how an architectural understanding of … ادامه

Angry residents say council heating upgrade will destroy listed Neave Brown estate

Camden proposes to install a limited choice of radiators or – if requested and where it is possible to fit them – trench heaters in a plinth leading to the balcony. The new system would be heated via existing gas-fired boilers, fitted in 2014 and controlled individually in each home. Another resident, Harry Charalambous, a … ادامه