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KPF set to cut terraces into Foster + Partners’ HSBC skyscraper

July 19, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio KPF has unveiled plans to turn the Foster + Partners-designed HSBC tower in Canary Wharf, London, into “a blueprint for the highly sustainable, mixed-use building of the future”. Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) will turn the office building at 8 Canada Square, which is owned by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) into a mixed-use development

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Buckingham Palace’s chinoiserie interiors revealed following five-year renovation

July 15, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Porcelain lions, nine-tiered pagodas and a lotus-shaped chandelier feature in Buckingham Palace’s newly refurbished east wing, which has opened to the public for the first time in its 175-year history. The east wing at London’s Buckingham Palace, which opened this month, houses a series of decadent interconnected rooms including the centre room, which leads to

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RSHP to transform world’s largest cluster of Victorian gas holders into housing

July 11, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

British studio RSHP has received planning consent to build cylindrical housing blocks within Victorian gas holders at the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks in London. RSHP’s plans to redevelop the gasworks will include refurbishing the Grade II-listed gas holder frames, which date back to the 1870s, and building residential buildings within and around them. The redevelopment, which was approved by

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Quincoces-Dragò & Partners creates “relaxed, seductive ambience” for Mayfair restaurant

July 7, 2024 Rupert Bickersteth 0

Architecture studio Quincoces-Dragò & Partners has unveiled The Dover restaurant in Mayfair, London, which was informed by art deco design. The first solo venture from Martin Kuczmarski, formerly group COO at Soho House, the restaurant was designed to be “unpretentiously elegant” and have a “relaxed, seductive ambience”. The long, narrow restaurant was made up of

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Barbie exhibition aims to show toy is “worthy proposition from a design point of view”

July 5, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

The Barbie dolls and Dreamhouses featured in Barbie: The Exhibition at London’s Design Museum reflect shifts in visual culture over the famed toy’s 65 years. With over 250 objects on display, Barbie: The Exhibition opens today and examines the history of the doll since it was created by Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler in 1959. According

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Will Gamble Architects modernises London Victorian house with “soft minimalism” interiors

July 5, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

UK studio Will Gamble Architects has extended and modernised a Victorian house in south London, using curved shapes and a palette of natural materials to create a calm and minimalist aesthetic. The clients – a married couple looking to create their forever home – asked Will Gamble Architects to oversee the transformation of the semi-detached

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Corstorphine & Wright carves scoop into office facade to celebrate neighbouring church

July 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Corstorphine & Wright has completed The Scoop, an office extension in London named after the gouge in its white-brick facade. The four-storey office building has been extended sideways and upwards and wrapped in glazed bricks, arranged to draw attention to the circular window of the neighbouring Grade II-listed church. “The church’s circular window

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Archmongers celebrates “raw beauty of brutalist concrete” in Trellick apartment refresh

July 3, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Newly exposed concrete walls are paired with a matching terrazzo in this sensitive home renovation by London studio Archmongers in North Kensington’s Trellick Tower. Led by architects Margaret Bursa and Johan Hybschmann, Archmongers reworked a duplex apartment on the 23rd and 24th floors of the listed 31-storey tower block. The design stays true to the

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Max Radford Gallery opens London showroom to get people “in front of real objects”

July 2, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Max Radford Gallery has opened a permanent space in east London that shows collectible designs from its past shows, including pieces by Carsten in der Elst and Amelia Stevens. Located in Hackney Downs, the showroom displays works that the gallery first showed at Belgium’s Collectible design fair, as well as pieces from earlier exhibitions. By

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Rising from the Water pavilion draws on architecture by Yasmeen Lari

June 28, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A circular pavilion formed of wood and reed, created by students with guidance from Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari and design studio Material Cultures is on display in Barking for the London Festival of Architecture. Named Rising from the Water, the pavilion is positioned close to Barking Creek Flood Barrier and explores building solutions for the

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