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2 weeks ago | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams |Richard Waite
The 710m² project replaced a single, detached post-war family home on the ‘challenging’ hillside plot, which has a 10m level change. The three-storey development in Bradmore Way, Coulsdon, provides three houses, two maisonettes and two flats. It was one of the last projects to be given approval under a local policy allowing suburban intensification – Croydon’s Suburban Design Guide supplementary planning document – before it was revoked in July 2022 amid political upheaval in the borough.
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3 weeks ago | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams |Rob Wilson
This year we’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of AJ Small Projects. To mark this milestone – and to reflect the quality and variety of the almost 170 entries we received – we have, for the first time in the award’s history, shortlisted 30 projects. The shortlist includes every typology of project from saunas and wellbeing spaces to new parks and outdoor classrooms – and all completed well within a tight budget of £399,000.
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3 weeks ago | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams |Rob Wilson
This year we’re celebrating the 30th anniversary of AJ Small Projects. To mark this milestone – and to reflect the quality and variety of the almost 170 entries we received – we have, for the first time in the award’s history, shortlisted 30 projects. The shortlist includes every typology of project from saunas and wellbeing spaces to new parks and outdoor classrooms – and all completed well within a tight budget of £399,000.
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2 months ago | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams |Fran Williams
The project occupies the site of the former National Temperance Hospital – one of several empty plots in the Euston area to be transformed by HS2 into a meanwhile garden for public use, following the pause of the UK’s huge infrastructure project. It is the only one in the series to be co-designed with a local youth group, as well as the community that will use it. The Euston station leg of HS2 is currently on hold.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams |David E. Connor |Matheson Whiteley Architects |Martin Architects
The annual AJ Small Projects is a fantastic opportunity to publish and recognise schemes on more modest budgets. From home extensions to workspaces, pavilions to shop fit-outs, restaurants and small houses, it is a chance to celebrate great architecture on a budget, as well as feature smaller schemes that are the bread and butter of many practices all over the country.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams
The practice, which has worked on several projects for The Crown Estate since participating In the AJ’s Office for the Future competition In 2016, aimed to transform its existing commercial property through the creation of ‘flexible and healthy’ office spaces to support greater collaboration between occupants. This thinking was applied to 12 Little Portland Street, a Grade II-listed office building dating from the 1920s, close to Oxford Circus and Broadcasting House.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams
The scheme includes a freestanding flexible studio and workshop space for an artist/set designer and specialist picture framer, as well as an extension to the existing mill. Located in the setting of settling ponds and the River Test’s Mill Run, the project is a low-energy refurbishment which aims to preserve the charm of the heritage property while futureproofing it.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams
His practice Poulson Architecture relied on Paragraph 79 of the National Planning Policy Framework – the clause that allows new-build homes to be constructed in open countryside under special circumstances. It is understood that the four-bedroom house was the first Paragraph 79 project to be approved by South Cambridgeshire District Council’s planning committee, in May 2021. Poulson – a former chief executive of YRM – is also the client.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams
You’re celebrating your 20th anniversary this year. What has been your biggest achievement so far? The biggest achievement is surviving 20 years! No, joking apart, it’s setting up a second office in Crathie in Aberdeenshire, and building it as client, contractor and end-occupier. At the time, it was the culmination of what the practice had been doing for 15 years. Though it’s just one among many projects, it was specifically for us. To be in that position felt quite privileged.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams
Killingworth Towers in North Tyneside, a 750-flat housing estate plagued by problems, stood for just two decades before it was demolished in 1987. It was one of the shortest-lived post-war housing estates in the UK – only outdone by James Stirling’s Southgate Estate in Runcorn New Town, which lasted 12 years. The estate was designed by architect Roy Gazzard, and the towers’ façades featured an unusual textured panelised concrete.
