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Matthew Wood adds seven-square-metre extension to his small London home

November 20, 2017 Miranda Fitzgerald 0

The founder of MW Architects used black-blue engineering bricks to add an extension of just seven square metres to his renovated London home. Matt Wood’s narrow Victorian house had an area of just 19 square metres when he bought it. Small but significant, his extension takes the total size up to 26 square metres. Previously, the central

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Winning design revealed for new library at London’s brutalist Thamesmead estate

November 13, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Architecture studio Bisset Adams has won a competition to design a lakeside library and community centre in southeast London, as part of a major overhaul of the brutalist Thamesmead estate. Bisset Adams will build the Southmere Village Library to the south bank of Southmere Lake, right beside the the sprawling concrete housing estate that was made infamous by the film adaptation

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho where customers can get their cut and colour while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho where customers can get their cut and colour while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho, where customers get their hair cut and coloured while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Soho salon by JaK Studio gathers patrons around a fire pit

November 13, 2017 India Block 0

JaK Studio has designed a hair salon in London’s Soho, where customers get their hair cut and coloured while seated at giant jewellery boxes arranged around an open fire. Inlaid with a mirror, dark stained oak veneer and purple velvet, the boxes provide clients with everything they might need including a place to safely store jewellery, charge

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Gilbert and George are turning an east London brewery into an art gallery

November 11, 2017 India Block 0

Artists Gilbert and George are converting 19th-century brewery in London’s Spitalfields into their own public gallery “because the Tate never shows our work”. The building off Brick Lane is being converted by SIRS – a design firm founded by Gilbert Prousch’s architect nephew – and planning permission has been granted by Tower Hamlets council. George Prousch and George

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Checa Romero Architects “makes the most” of small brick house by extending in every direction

November 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Curro Checa Romero has refurbished and extended a 1980s house in east London, more than doubling its interior dimensions and creating a series of light-filled spaces with an improved connection to the rear garden. The Grim House was named for architect Checa Romero’s partner, Deborah Grim, who bought it over three years ago and

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Checa Romero Architects “makes the most” of small brick house by extending in every direction

November 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Curro Checa Romero has refurbished and extended a 1980s house in east London, more than doubling its interior dimensions and creating a series of light-filled spaces with an improved connection to the rear garden. The Grim House was named for architect Checa Romero’s partner, Deborah Grim, who bought it over three years ago and

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Sella Concept applies “cocoon of rich materials and colour” to interiors of east London workspace

November 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The smooth surface and soft-pink hue of a newly plastered wall provided the starting point for the design of communal workspaces at this new creative hub in east London by local studio Sella Concept. De Beauvoir Block is an Edwardian industrial building in Hackney that was transformed by developer The Benyon Estate into a workspace

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