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Dezeen Agenda features Europe’s tallest modular residential tower

October 17, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the completion of Europe’s tallest modular residential tower. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. HTA Design has completed College Road, a 163-meter-tall apartment building in Croydon, UK, which it claims is “Europe’s tallest residential building to be completed using volumetric construction methods”. The structure is comprised

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Architecture for London creates demountable wood interior for Present & Correct store

October 16, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Local studio Architecture for London has designed an interior for stationery store Present & Correct in London, which features gridded joinery and draws on “wunderkammer” cabinets of curiosities. The studio designed bespoke joinery and storage for the Present & Correct shop in Bloomsbury, central London, which sells vintage and new stationery from across the globe.

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Witherford Watson Mann “opens up” The Courtauld’s 18th-century home

October 15, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Witherford Watson Mann balanced “studious conservation and bold intervention” for its redevelopment of the historic Courtauld Institute of Art in London. One of six projects shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023, the three-year project to update The Courtauld Gallery completed at the end of 2021 and marks the first phase of a

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HTA Design completes Europe’s tallest modular residential tower in Croydon

October 13, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

British architecture studio HTA Design has completed a 163-metre-tall apartment building in Croydon that it claims is “Europe’s tallest residential tower to be completed using volumetric construction methods”. Named College Road, the building is made up of two adjoining 50 and 35-storey towers wrapped in a pleated ceramic facade. It sits across the street from

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Eight projects by POOR Collective that reimagine co-design as “a two-way street”

October 12, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

To mark POOR Collective winning London’s Emerging Design Medal, co-founder Shawn Adams rounds up eight must-know projects by the social enterprise, focused on involving young people in the regeneration of their communities. POOR Collective, which is an acronym for power out of restriction, is a social-impact design studio that aims to engage young people from disadvantaged

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WilkinsonEyre set to open London’s secret world war two tunnels to the public

October 10, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio WilkinsonEyre has unveiled designs to turn London’s Kingsway Exchange Tunnels into an experience centre, revealing their wartime history as a secret government communications exchange. Located 40 metres below the street of High Holborn in central London, the passageways were built in the 1940s to provide shelter from the Blitz during world war two. After

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George Fisher creates modular social space for homeless hostel in London

October 7, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Architectural designer George Fisher has created an outdoor social space for Project Malachi, a homeless hostel in London, using the modular U-Build system developed by Studio Bark. The project was initiated by Fisher after observing that the 42-unit hostel in Ilford was in need of outdoor space during the Covid-19 pandemic and later built in

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Dion & Arles creates “salon in which you can dine” for Il Gattopardo restaurant

October 6, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

French design and interiors studio Dion & Arles drew on the work of 20th-century Italian designers Carlo Mollino and Gio Ponti for the interior of Mayfair restaurant Il Gattopardo in London. “We envisioned Il Gattopardo to be a salon in which you can dine – not just a restaurant,” the designers told Dezeen. The studio

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Stanton Williams unveils UCL East building where “structure is the architecture”

October 2, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

British architecture studio Stanton Williams has designed a 35,000-square-metre academic building for the University College London, located in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Named UCL East Marshgate, the concrete building has teaching and study space for 4,000 students and 700 staff and is roughly six times bigger than the university’s next largest building – the UCL

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Chair of Virtue presents experimental seating at London Design Festival

September 26, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Digitally shrink-wrapped skin, armrests salvaged from parks and “frozen” resin featured in Prototype/In Process, an exhibition of seating presented by virtual magazine Chair of Virtue during London Design Festival. Displayed under a railway arch at Borough Yards, Prototype/In Process was made up of 1:1 scale prototypes of chairs, as well as chairs that are still

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