The Architects' Journal

The Architects' Journal is a weekly magazine focused on architecture, published in London by Ascential.

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The Manser Practice completes ferry terminal at Liverpool docks

2 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams

Completed last year, the ferry terminal has been designed to handle 600,000 passengers a year travelling between Liverpool and the Isle of Man capital, Douglas. It is the first time the Isle of Man government has invested in a land purchase outside the island, allowing it to have full control of sea links to the UK. The brief called for a simple, pavilion-style building on the 1800s Prince’s Half Tide Docks, which would mark the start of a passenger’s journey to the island.
Mayor of London to support building on green belt

5 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

In a keynote speech on Thursday evening (8 May), Khan said his position on building on the greenbelt had changed due to the ‘extraordinary challenge’ of ending London’s housing crisis, which he said was causing ‘pervasive and profound’ damage to residents. ‘We’ll be working with councils and others to secure as many new homes as we can on brownfield sites, both large and small,’ he said.
Bureau de Change’s mixed-use west London plans rejected

6 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Architect’s view (from October 2024)The site’s current single-storey unit is used as a warehouse. The development’s aim is to make more efficient use of the site footprint and improve the appearance and cohesion of the street. The history of the site has informed the materiality and design of the development. Multiple Victorian retail shops were found in the surrounding area – including perfumeries – all of which were characterised by their faceted bay windows.
RIBA reveals winners of South West and Wessex awards

6 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Former Stirling Prize winner Allford Hall Monaghan Morris picked up an award for its new-build office in Bristol for developer Nord, while Stonewood Design was recognised for in a restored Victorian rectory in St Ives.
Grimshaw wins approval for rejigged Birmingham HS2 station

6 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Ian Weinfass

Updated designs for the Birmingham terminus of the high-speed rail project were unveiled in September last year, consisting of 14 changes to the plans that were approved in 2020. They involved swapping out timber in the arched roof for aluminium, which HS2 said was better for fire safety and more cost-effective to maintain while remaining visually similar to the proposals in the consented outline plans.
Police consider using ‘full-scale’ Grenfell Tower replica in criminal trials

6 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Ian Weinfass

According to The Telegraph, the force’s senior investigating officer Detective Superintendent Garry Moncrieff wrote to survivors and victims’ relatives stating that the model might be built. He wrote: ‘The police, CPS, and our team of experts have spent a lot of time thinking about how we could best help those jurors understand really complicated evidence and technical topics.
Studio Hagen Hall upgrades north London Modernist townhouse

6 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Fran Williams

The Modernist townhouse is part of a cluster of nine properties, including five homes originally designed by South African architect Ted Levy, Benjamin & Partners in the late 1960s. Externally, each of the existing houses is uniformly designed with subtle references to Cape Town’s coastal developments of the 50s and 60s. Since the 60s, their interiors have been sporadically renovated with most of them stripped of their Modernist character.
Shedkm wins approval to convert multistorey carpark into homes

1 week ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Ian Weinfass

The projects, for developer Capital&Centric in Newcastle-under-Lyme, will convert the 1960s Midway five-storey car park into 111 flats, and turn the former York Place shopping centre into 42 one and two-bed flats. The client described the car park conversion as a ‘pioneering urban neighbourhood’ formed of 78 one-bed and 33 two-bed homes. The scheme will also include a social hub, gym, mini cinema and lounge. It added that lush landscaping would be created underneath a ‘stunning' three-floor atrium.
Leeds practice ceases trading after 22 years

1 week ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

The Leeds-based practice, formerly known as 2B Architecture, designed major housing schemes for developers such as Igloo Regeneration, Citylife and Citu – as well as a plan for Yorkshire’s tallest building and an 8,000 seat arena in Edinburgh. But the company, whose accounts show it employed up to nine people in 2020, stopped trading on 23 April with total debts of £334,000, according to a statement of affairs published by liquidator David Robson of Gaines Robson Insolvency.
Queen Elizabeth II memorial finalists’ designs revealed

1 week ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

The public has been invited to view each of the five shortlisted design concepts for the national memorial following the launch of an online exhibition today (7 May). The winner in the contest organised by Malcolm Reading Consultants, will create a ‘historic’ memorial to the UK’s longest-serving monarch on the site next to Buckingham Palace in London’s St James’s Park.