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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite |Fran Williams
The 4m-wide timber structure is also the first permanent part of British Land and pension fund AustralianSuper’s wider £4 billion development around the waterside plot in Southwark. This planned 21ha ‘new district’ will comprise nearly 100,000m² of shops and leisure space, 200,000m² of workspace, up to 4,000 homes, a new park and a leisure centre – as well as the first new high street in London for 100 years.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams
The tallest cube rises to 14 storeys with the others at 10 and 11 storeys respectively. The tallest element has been designed as a marker for the western end of Marylebone Road, while the southern and northern elements respond to the finer grain of Georgian terraces and the scale of Old Marylebone Road. The proportions of the façades reflect the cellularness of the hotel internally.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams
Located above Moorgate station’s new ticket hall, which has also been designed by the practice, the bridge-like office development also integrates new public realm to improve connections in the Moorgate area. During the project’s design, WilkinsonEyre had to overcome several challenges for developing over an operational railway. The 1.3ha site was entirely occupied by subsurface rail infrastructure including the Circle Line, which couldn’t be closed at any time.
