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Diller Scofidio + Renfro wins contest to design £250 million concert hall for London

October 11, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

A major new concert venue replacing the Museum of London is to be designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the New York architecture firm behind the acclaimed High Line park. Diller Scofidio + Renfro is working with British firm Sheppard Robson on the Centre for Music, which will offer a permanent home to London Symphony Orchestra, which is currently based

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Exhibition Road accident shows it’s “time to review shared space”, says Labour MP Emma Dent Coad

October 9, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

“Shared space” streets have been called into question after a taxi ploughed into museum-goers on Exhibition Road, a broad boulevard shared by pedestrians and vehicles in London’s South Kensington. The driver of a Toyota Prius veered into a crowd of visitors in South Kensington’s semi-pedestrianised road on Saturday 7 October, injuring 11 people. Nine of the

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Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children’s bedroom into Barbican flat

October 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. The resident of the one-storey flat tasked the local architects to overhaul the bedroom for his two children who come and stay

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Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children’s bedroom into Barbican flat

October 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. The resident of the one-storey flat tasked the local architects to overhaul the bedroom for his two children who come and stay

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Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children’s bedroom into Barbican flat

October 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. The resident of the one-storey flat tasked the local architects to overhaul the bedroom for his two children who come and stay

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Studio Ben Allen inserts pale plywood children’s bedroom into Barbican flat

October 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

London architecture firm Studio Ben Allen has built a plywood structure inside a flat in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate to create a bedroom for two children, featuring archways, steps and a fold-down desk. The resident of the one-storey flat tasked the local architects to overhaul the bedroom for his two children who come and stay

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Black House is a duplex apartment above a converted Victorian warehouse in Hackney

October 7, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Simon Conder Associates has placed a prefabricated, black-stained timber extension on top of a former warehouse in east London, creating a new home for the designers whose studio occupies the old building. The three-storey Victorian warehouse is located in an industrial neighbourhood in Hackney, close to London Fields park, and is home to a multidisciplinary design agency.

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Black House is a duplex apartment above a converted Victorian warehouse in Hackney

October 7, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Simon Conder Associates has placed a prefabricated, black-stained timber extension on top of a former warehouse in east London, creating a new home for the designers whose studio occupies the old building. The three-storey Victorian warehouse is located in an industrial neighbourhood in Hackney, close to London Fields park, and is home to a multidisciplinary design agency.

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Universal Design Studio uses recycled aluminium to create sculptural entrance to Frieze London

October 6, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

The venue for the Frieze art fair in London this week features walls of pleated and folded aluminium that would otherwise have gone to waste. Designed by Universal Design Studio, the architecture and interiors firm founded by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, the venue for this year’s Frieze London is intended to promote sustainability – through use of

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Universal Design Studio uses recycled aluminium to create sculptural entrance to Frieze London

October 6, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

The venue for the Frieze art fair in London this week features walls of pleated and folded aluminium that would otherwise have gone to waste. Designed by Universal Design Studio, the architecture and interiors firm founded by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, the venue for this year’s Frieze London is intended to promote sustainability – through use of

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