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“The only living Russian architect well-known abroad is a former fantasist”

November 29, 2017 Owen Hatherley 0

In the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Alexander Brodsky was the only national architect to offer a response. That says something about Russian architectural culture, suggests Owen Hatherley. There was a building in London this autumn, by the last Russian architect to have any name recognition whatsoever outside that country. The architect in question is Alexander

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Sybarite bases Japanese restaurant interior on bamboo forests

November 28, 2017 Ali Morris 0

The wood-lined interior of this high-end Japanese restaurant in London was designed by local practice Sybarite to evoke the feeling of a tranquil bamboo forest. Located on the city’s River Thames, close to Strand, the 450-square-metre restaurant is the second outpost of Yen – a 17-year-old soba restaurant in Paris owned by Japanese fashion company Onward

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Denizen Works designs floating chapel shaped like a giant organ

November 27, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

London architecture studio Denizen Works has revealed plans to build a canalboat that doubles as a church, featuring a roof that expands and contracts like the bellows of an organ. The Floating Church is designed to journey through London’s canal network to reach Christian worshippers. Based on the pop-up sleeping pods found on old VW camper vans,

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Michael Russum uses boatbuilding techniques to build his “mystery vessel” house

November 27, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Lighthouses and Noah’s Ark provided design cues for this nautical-inspired townhouse in north London – one of the properties vying to be named UK house of the year. Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects co-founder Michael Russum and his partner Sally spent 12 years planning and building 6 Wood Lane, which slots into a typical terrace of

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Vibrant yellow kitchen brightens basement of north London home

November 25, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Architecture studio Russian for Fish has injected colour into the basement of a London duplex flat by installing a bright yellow kitchen. The Beresford Road property is located in the north London borough of Islington, and is home to a young couple and their two dogs. Occupying the lower two floors of a Victorian terrace, the

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Vibrant yellow kitchen brightens basement of north London home

November 25, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Architecture studio Russian for Fish has injected colour into the basement of a London duplex flat by installing a bright yellow kitchen. The Beresford Road property is located in the north London borough of Islington, and is home to a young couple and their two dogs. Occupying the lower two floors of a Victorian terrace, the

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“Spectacularly tall” skyscraper by CZWG set to be built in Croydon

November 22, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Architecture studio CZWG is preparing to build a 228-metre-high tower in London’s Croydon, featuring Matisse-inspired facade patterns. The studio, which is led by architect Piers Gough, will create the 68-storey building as part of a major regeneration project in the south London borough. Named One Lansdowne Road, it will occupy a plot at the corner of Lansdowne Road

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The Ned is “a hideaway from real life” says designer Alice Lund

November 21, 2017 Calum Lindsay 0

In this movie, designer Alice Lund explains the concept behind The Ned, a club, hotel and dining venue in a converted London bank, which was named hotel of the year at the AHEAD Europe awards last night. Private members club Soho House was behind the huge project, which takes over the former headquarters of Midlands Bank in

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The Ned is “a hideaway from real life” says designer Alice Lund

November 21, 2017 Calum Lindsay 0

In this movie, designer Alice Lund explains the concept behind The Ned, a club, hotel and dining venue in a converted London bank, which was named hotel of the year at the AHEAD Europe awards last night. Private members club Soho House was behind the huge project, which takes over the former headquarters of Midlands Bank in

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Architectural Association accused of “destroying its own cultural mission” over redundancy plans

November 20, 2017 India Block 0

Staff cuts could put the publishing and exhibitions operations at the Architectural Association school at risk, prompting outrage from leading architects and writers. All six members of the AA’s publications department and the two employees in its exhibitions team are among sixteen members of staff threatened with redundancy, according to a report in the Architects

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