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Cairn uses hand-poured hempcrete for House Made by Many Hands in London

May 30, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Cairn has used hand-poured hempcrete to form the rough textured walls at House Made by Many Hands, an extension of a Victorian home in east London. Approached to redesign the “dark and cramped” home in Hackney, London and Edinburgh-based Cairn reconfigured and expanded its ground floor using a palette of low-carbon and bio-based

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Tutto Bene balances steel and mirrors with wood and leather in Nightingale restaurant

May 30, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design studio Tutto Bene drew on “the sombre elegance of theatre and museum lobby cafes” when creating the interiors for the Nightingale restaurant in London. The 60-square-metre space, which opens to a courtyard in London’s Mayfair neighbourhood, references Viennese coffee houses, known locally as Kaffeehäuser. “We thought London is missing spaces with the atmosphere that

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Tabitha Isobel gives London townhouse a “surprising and bold” makeover

May 28, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Designer Tabitha Organ combined natural materials with metal details to transform this London townhouse into a home with a “slightly futuristic” feel for a client who loves entertaining. The five-storey property on St Pauls Road had recently been renovated by a developer using poor-quality finishes, so the client – a young tech entrepreneur and first-time

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Commonbond Architects self-builds Gardenhide Studio using hempcrete and timber

May 27, 2024 Katie Last 0

London practice Commonbond Architects has designed and built its own studio at the end of a garden in Abbey Wood using a combination of hempcrete and timber. Named Gardenhide Studio, the workspace in southeast London is intended to showcase the potential of hempcrete – a bio-composite material made from hemp and lime – as a

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Peter Morris designs Clerkenwell Design Week pavilion from pink imitation stone

May 22, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Peter Morris has unveiled The Possible Impossible Pavilion, which is made of multiple connected arches and constructed from a polystyrene-based imitation stone, at Clerkenwell Design Week. The pink pavilion, located outside the St James Church in Clerkenwell, is a smaller model of Morris’s upcoming project The Cloud House, which is being constructed in Gospel

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Lanterns dangle through hole between floors in “UK’s most expensive steak” restaurant

May 20, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Interiors studio Rosendale Design used paper pendants to illuminate hand-painted red-and-gold walls in the first overseas outpost of Japanese steakhouse Aragawa in London. Set across two floors in a Mayfair townhouse, the restaurant is widely credited as serving the “UK’s most expensive steak” – a £900 cut of wagyu beef from Shiga prefecture. Characterised by

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Museum of London set for demolition after Michael Gove decides not to call in proposal

May 20, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The Museum of London and Bastion House are set to be demolished to make way for the London Wall West scheme, after UK levelling up secretary Michael Gove decided not to intervene. Gove informed the City of London last Friday that he would not call in Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Sheppard Robson’s proposal, reported

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Gubi opens first UK showroom in London townhouse takeover

May 20, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A Georgian townhouse filled with period details is now Gubi House London, the first dedicated showroom that the furniture brand has opened outside Denmark. Gubi partnered with Danish surface design studio File Under Pop to reimagine the listed building as a showspace for its collection, which includes furniture by designers such as GamFratesi and Space

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Jean Prouvé house finds permanent London home in Ladbroke Hall garden

May 17, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Carpenters Workshop Gallery has unveiled a model of the Jean Prouvé-designed 6×6 demountable house in a London garden created by landscape designer Luciano Giubbilei. Maison Démountable will be a permanent fixture of the publicly accessible garden at Ladbroke Hall, the west London arts venue that Carpenters Workshop Gallery moved into in 2023. It forms the

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London extension by Collective Works blends Scandinavian and Mediterranean influences

May 14, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Terracotta-coloured facades and warm wood-lined interiors define Mid Terrace Dream, a terraced house in north London renovated and extended by local studio Collective Works. Collective Works has expanded the home, which it said was previously “run down”, with two adjoining pitched-roof volumes at the rear and a full dormer to expand its loft. The extensions

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