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Portakabin builds temporary school for pupils of academy next to Grenfell Tower

July 21, 2017 Ali Morris 0

A temporary secondary school is being built to accommodate students of Kensington Aldridge Academy, a school next to Grenfell Tower, which has been shut ever since the devastating fire last month. UK company Portakabin is using its modular construction system to build the school just over a mile away, next to Wormwood Scrubs – an open space in the London Borough of

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Whale skeleton suspended over information kiosk and bar in revamped Natural History Museum foyer

July 17, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

The huge skeleton of a blue whale is now the centrepiece of the entrance hall at London’s Natural History Museum – but unlike the dinosaur cast there before, it is suspended from the ceiling, freeing up space below for an information desk that doubles as a bar. London interiors studio Casson Mann overhauled the foyer as part of an ongoing renovation of the historic museum. The 25-metre-long whale replaces

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McLaren Excell adds contrasting pale-brick extension to black-painted Victorian house

July 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pair of interlocking volumes clad in pale brick and fronted by large, frameless windows extend the rear of this Victorian house in west London, which has been overhauled by McLaren Excell. Local studio McLaren Excell was tasked with renovating the property and a former stable yard in the Richmond area of London to create a house

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31/44 Architects adds contemporary red-brick house to traditional London terrace

July 15, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The homogenous red-brick facades and decorative tiled relief of this house tacked onto the end of a south-London terrace by 31/44 Architects reference details found on its older neighbours. The London- and Amsterdam-based practice designed the Red House as a speculative project for developer Arrant Land, which had acquired the end-terrace lot and adjacent property

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Amin Taha Architects reconfigures London home around lightwells and a spiral staircase

July 9, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

London studio Amin Taha Architects has updated a 1950s terraced house in the city’s Bayswater neighbourhood, adding a basement level topped with a rugged concrete soffit and a lightwell set into a courtyard garden. The property at Caroline Place is part of a brick terrace that originally featured a layout informed by typical Edwardian homes,

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Dirty Bones restaurant in London’s Soho aims to recreate the glamour of Studio 54

July 8, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

London restaurant Dirty Bones took inspiration from 1970s Brooklyn for its new space in Soho, which features velvet seating, a wood-panelled bar and a toilet hidden behind a faux bookshelf. In-house designer Lotti Lorenzetti oversaw the fit-out of the restaurant, located on Denman Street. The aim was to combine the “the loft-style apartments of Brooklyn and the glamour

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Dusty Pink Tiles Help This New Retail Store Stand Out From The Crowd

July 4, 2017 Erin 0

Photography © Max McClure 2017   UK based interiors and branding studio, B, have recently completed a new Papersmiths retail store in Boxpark, Shoreditch. As B and Papersmiths are owned by the same people, Sidonie Warren and Kyle Clarke, it was easy for them to put their minds together to create an out-of-the-box idea for the new […]

This converted London print factory is a co-working space for makers

July 2, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

London’s Palmspace co-working studio occupies a former factory that has been adapted to offer extra room for artists and makers. The space – which was launched by Hackney Downs Studios and created by an in-house design team – has individual workspaces set apart by steel-framed shelves, which double as drying racks. There are also desks

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Grenfell Tower disaster exposes UK’s “dangerous, ugly, cruel and uncaring” approach to social housing, say architects

June 30, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Architects have attacked the culture of cost-cutting and “value-stripping” in UK construction, which they believe contributed to the fatal Grenfell Tower fire. “This terrible event may prove to be the shock that finally forces commissioning public clients and the construction industry to take design quality and specification seriously,” said Paul Karakusevic of London-based Karakusevic Carson Architects. “Value

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