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London’s Welbeck Street car park could be saved with alternative design by JAA

October 23, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Architecture firm JAA has developed a proposal that would see a celebrated brutalist-era car park in London preserved – rather than demolished to build a new hotel. The speculative scheme is being offered as an alternative to Westminister Council’s plans to demolish Welbeck Street car park, to make way for a hotel designed by Eric

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Laura Dewe Matthews creates spaces for birdwatching and painting in London home of a retired couple

October 20, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Architect Laura Dewe Matthews has added a staggered red brick extension to a London house, as part of a renovation that involved creating spaces for the clients’ various hobbies. The clients, a retired couple in their 70s and 80s, specified that they wanted to remodel their semi-detached Edwardian house in Barnes, west London, to accommodate

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Duggan Morris builds office with millennial-pink exterior in London’s King’s Cross

October 19, 2017 India Block 0

London firm Duggan Morris Architects has completed an office building in London, featuring an aluminium facade in this year’s trendiest colour. R7 is an 11-storey-high building in the fast-developing area of King’s Cross. Its gridded facade is finished in two shades of pink, one of which is a close match to 2017’s hottest hue, millennial pink. However Duggan Morris Architects director

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Pre-cast concrete staircase forms centrepiece of basement extension by Studio Octopi

October 19, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This south London house extension by Studio Octopi features a pre-cast concrete staircase that had to be craned into position. London-based Studio Octopi designed the zinc-clad basement extension for a four-bedroom terraced property in Wandsworth, to provide the owners with a guest bedroom, a shower room, a utility room and a playroom. The original building is typical of Victorian and Edwardian properties constructed in compact

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Carmody Groarke creates cave-like space to showcase Designs of the Year nominees

October 18, 2017 Alice Morby 0

For this year’s Designs of the Year exhibition, London architecture studio Carmody Groarke has created a cave-like interior made from sprayed paper pulp. Dezeen is media partner for the Beazley Designs of the Year awards programme and exhibition, which officially opens to the public today. Set on the basement level of the Design Museum in Kensington, the

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HASA Architects transforms London apartment into “seamless white box”

October 14, 2017 Ali Morris 0

HASA Architects has turned a dark and dingy apartment on the second floor of a three-storey Edwardian Terrace in London’s Bankside into an all-white minimalist family home. Located on a dense urban site in London Bridge, the two-bedroom apartment had previously been served as an office space – giving it a layout described by HASA Architects as “unconventional

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HASA Architects transforms London apartment into “seamless white box”

October 14, 2017 Ali Morris 0

HASA Architects has turned a dark and dingy apartment on the second floor of a three-storey Edwardian Terrace in London’s Bankside into an all-white minimalist family home. Located on a dense urban site in London Bridge, the two-bedroom apartment had previously been served as an office space – giving it a layout described by HASA Architects as “unconventional

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Dimore Studio uses velvet, brass and marble for opulent London supper club

October 11, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Dimore Studio took cues from the decadent 1960s nightlife spots on the French Riviera for the rose-tinted interiors of this new restaurant at a west London members’ club. Located on the lower-ground floor of members-only institution The Arts Club in Mayfair, Leo’s will act as a dining and clubbing venue, as well as a space to host creative talks.

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Dimore Studio uses velvet, brass and marble for opulent London supper club

October 11, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Dimore Studio took cues from the decadent 1960s nightlife spots on the French Riviera for the rose-tinted interiors of this new restaurant at a west London members’ club. Located on the lower-ground floor of members-only institution The Arts Club in Mayfair, Leo’s will act as a dining and clubbing venue, as well as a space to host creative talks.

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Dimore Studio uses velvet, brass and marble for opulent London supper club

October 11, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Dimore Studio took cues from the decadent 1960s nightlife spots on the French Riviera for the rose-tinted interiors of this new restaurant at a west London members’ club. Located on the lower-ground floor of members-only institution The Arts Club in Mayfair, Leo’s will act as a dining and clubbing venue, as well as a space to host creative talks.

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