AJ 05.10.17: Offsite construction

AJ 05.10.17: Offsite constructionThe AJ looks at the latest wave of offsite construction, seen as a way to tackle both the housing crisis and the skills shortage. We investigate whether it will invigorate the profession or destroy it. There are related building studies on HKRs modular homes for Pocket Housing; Dalston Works mixed used scheme by Waugh Thistleton; and Eric Parrys 4 Pancras Square in Kings Cross PLUS also in Kings Cross, Duggan Morriss distinctively pink R7 office

Emmett Russell

as well as a 1980s house imaginatively transformed by Checa Romero Architects

while Haverstock’s Alexandra Centre for special needs pupils rejuvenates part of Neave Brown’s Camden estate

a news feature on whether the Garden Bridge is dead in the water

including a building study of the Tate Modern Switch House

while leading figures in the profession make their predictions for the year ahead

PLUS The Hoxton Press

Doors and windows

and the Virido development in Cambridge by Pollard Thomas Edwards PLUS We investigate what architects can do to mitigate the huge impact of construction on global warming

House Peacock

by Russian for Fish

Make Architects’ mixed-use scheme including Facebook’s new London HQ