No Image

“Subtle luxury” defines Rachel Boston jewellery store

March 1, 2024 Clara Finnigan 0

Interior design studio Hollie Bowden Interiors has created fine jeweller Rachel Boston’s flagship store and showroom in London. Located in Shoreditch’s Redchurch Street, the store is split into four main areas – the retail space, private appointment area, workshop and office space for the jeweller’s team of 12. The store aims to blend a neutral

The post “Subtle luxury” defines Rachel Boston jewellery store appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Allies and Morrison completes “21st-century factory” for London College of Fashion

February 29, 2024 Starr Charles 0

British architecture studio Allies and Morrison has completed a university building for London College of Fashion at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. Conceived as a “21st-century factory”, the London College of Fashion (LCF) building is defined by its gridded concrete structure and a rectilinear facade lined with tall warehouse-style windows. “We think of

The post Allies and Morrison completes “21st-century factory” for London College of Fashion appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Foster + Partners unveils curving office building at Battersea Power Station

February 28, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed 50 Electric Boulevard, an 18,580-square-metre workplace within London’s Battersea Power Station development. Located along Battersea Power Station’s pedestrianised high street, Foster + Partners designed the building and its interiors to function as flexible and adaptbale office space. “50 Electric Boulevard’s soft undulating form creates a varying floorplate, which

The post Foster + Partners unveils curving office building at Battersea Power Station appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

AHMM to transform office into co-living space next to London’s Barbican estate

February 26, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Developer HUB and investor Bridges Fund Management have revealed plans to convert a 1950s office building in London into Cornerstone, a co-living residential scheme designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Located on the edge of the Barbican estate, the Cornerstone project will draw from the iconic Barbican architecture to transform 45 Beech Street into 174

The post AHMM to transform office into co-living space next to London’s Barbican estate appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Chai Guys Portobello cafe interior evokes “the colour of spices”

February 26, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio SODA has used warm colours and natural materials to create the first store for tea brand Chai Guys on Portobello Road in London’s Notting Hill neighbourhood. The studio drew on the “informal nature” of drinking masala chai tea when designing the interior for the cafe – the first one for the Chai Guys

The post Chai Guys Portobello cafe interior evokes “the colour of spices” appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Surman Weston self-builds “characterful family home” with three gardens in London

February 23, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. Peckham House was designed for and built by the directors of Surman Weston, Tom Surman and Percy Weston. It is currently occupied by Weston and his family. The nature

The post Surman Weston self-builds “characterful family home” with three gardens in London appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Heatherwick Studio set to turn “extraordinary” BT Tower into hotel

February 21, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK practice Heatherwick Studio is set to turn the 177-metre-high BT Tower in central London into a hotel, following its sale to American hotelier MCR Hotels. MCR Hotels announced today that it had purchased the Grade II-listed tower from the BT Group telecommunications company with Heatherwick Studio and is set to turn the structure into a

The post Heatherwick Studio set to turn “extraordinary” BT Tower into hotel appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Studio Egret West to transform former Heinz HQ into London housing

February 21, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

UK architecture firm Studio Egret West has shared its plans to create housing within two concrete 1960s buildings in London, which were formerly the headquarters of food company Heinz. Studio Egret West has received planning permission to create 124 apartments across the two office buildings while preserving their external concrete frames. Named Hayes Park Central

The post Studio Egret West to transform former Heinz HQ into London housing appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

“Fried-egg” canopy tops Sunny Side Up extension by THISS Studio

February 20, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture practice THISS Studio has reconfigured the dark interior of an interwar house in east London, adding an extension characterised by timber joinery and a curved aluminium roof. Designed to have “a fun and unconventional presence”, the extension was conceived by THISS Studio as though it were a piece of furniture rather than a conventional

The post “Fried-egg” canopy tops Sunny Side Up extension by THISS Studio appeared first on Dezeen.

No Image

Unknown Works creates “otherworldly” music studio in London garden

February 13, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture studio Unknown Works has completed Shou Sugi Bangers, a sunken music studio clad in charred timber, which sits in the garden of a London home. Designed for an electronic music producer, the soundproof studio is playfully named after its scalloped Accoya wood cladding, which has been charred using the Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban.

The post Unknown Works creates “otherworldly” music studio in London garden appeared first on Dezeen.