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Gundry + Ducker creates concertina facade for London brewery

May 26, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A folded facade of galvanised steel and glass fronts the railway arches that house this beer hall in London by local studio Gundry + Ducker. Located in Kentish Town in North London, the brewery was designed for beer company Camden Town Brewery within railway arches in a cobbled mews. Its concertinaed frontage was designed by

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Birch Selsdon hotel takes over 19th-century mansion in Croydon

May 26, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

British hotel chain Birch has opened an outpost in south London, with grounds rewilded by designer Sebastian Cox and interiors conceived by local studios A-nrd and Sella Concept. Birch Selsdon is housed in a 19th-century mansion in the borough of Croydon and accommodates 181 rooms alongside a wellness space and lido, co-working facilities and a

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Eleven key pavilions at the Venice Architecture Biennale

May 26, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The 2023 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale kicked off last week. Here, Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft selects the most interesting national pavilions from the event. Curated by Lesley Lokko, the theme of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale was The Laboratory of the Future, and many of the national pavilions aimed to respond to this by

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MVRDV designs demountable office building as “source to harvest materials from”

May 26, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has created Matrix One, a laboratory and office building in Amsterdam designed to be dismantled into reusable parts. The six-storey building has a steel frame structure and prefabricated hollow-core concrete floor slabs, which were assembled without fixed connections so that parts can be detached and reused after the building’s life span.

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