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Arched brick forms enliven London children’s centre by Adam Khan Architects

August 27, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Inverted brick arches crown the Central Somers Town children’s community centre near King’s Cross, London, created by local studio Adam Khan Architects. The project forms the home of Plot 10, a community children’s play project established in the 1970s that previously occupied a series of self-built timber structures on the site. It sits adjacent to

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Most Architecture creates micro factory with “everything on display” for Charge Cars

August 18, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UK studio Most Architecture has converted an industrial shed in west London into an all-black-and-white showroom and production facility for electric car start-up Charge Cars. Created to manufacture Charge Cars’ first vehicle the ’67 – an all-electric version of the 1960s Ford Mustang Fastback built using components from electric vehicle brand Arrival – the facility also acts as

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Satish Jassal Architects squeezes brick bungalow onto enclosed London site

August 16, 2023 Joohee Won 0

London studio Satish Jassal Architects has created a two-bedroom bungalow from handmade-bricks behind shops and restaurants on Turnpike Lane in Haringey, England. Named Haringey Brick Bungalow, the 66-square-metre home is accessed through a one-metre-wide passageway hidden between the high street’s commercial premises. The 110-square-metre site and narrow passageway was “like building through a straw”, dictating many design and construction decisions. “This

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James Corner landscapes “magical lookout” at Battersea Power Station

August 15, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Landscape studio James Corner Field Operations has created a roof garden with 23,000 plants and 55 trees on top of a Foster + Partners-designed residential building alongside Battersea Power Station in London. The greenery adorns the winding roofscape of Battersea Roof Gardens, a residential building by British studio Foster + Partners, which is due to complete next to the former power

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A Re-Imagined Side Extension With A Slatted Wood Design

August 14, 2023 Erin 0

YARD Architects has shared photos of a side extension they re-imagined for a home in Greater London, England, that creates an open and bright dining area and kitchen. A large pivoting window connects the interior spaces with the outdoors. Inside, the architects removed a wall to connect the old and new spaces, while the kitchen […]

Sergison Bates Architects completes courtyard housing block in south London

August 11, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A planted communal courtyard designed to promote “neighbourliness” and grey brick define this infill housing block by Sergison Bates Architects in Clapham, London. Positioned in an enclosed site behind rows of terraced Victorian houses in an urban block, Lavender Hill Courtyard Housing was designed to bring light into the nine apartments on the site through

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Dowen Farmer designs cubic ten-storey tower for ghost kitchens

August 10, 2023 James Parkes 0

British architecture studio Dowen Farmer Architects has released plans for Portal Road, a multistorey ghost-kitchen tower block in west London that would shuttle food to a public food hall like the “Ministry of Magic”. The studio has filed plans for the building, which would be built in North Acton, London, and replace an unrealised scheme

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Bottega Veneta channels Veneto design sensibilities at Sloane Street store

August 4, 2023 James Parkes 0

Fashion brand Bottega Veneta has opened a store on London’s Sloane Street that draws on materials, furniture and design techniques from Italy’s Veneto region. Located at the base of a nine-storey 1920s red brick apartment complex, the store sits behind a white-rendered frontage with doric column-style detailings. It was opened as the first store to

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Tate Modern’s Corner cafe revamped to be less “Herzog & de Meuron-y”

August 4, 2023 Jennifer Hahn 0

Architecture studio Holland Harvey has overhauled the ground-floor cafe at the Tate Modern in London so it doubles as the gallery’s first late-night bar. Tucked away in the museum’s northwest corner, the interior of the Corner cafe was originally designed in 2000 when Herzog & de Meuron created a home for the UK’s national collection of modern

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Piles of green-hued books characterise London Aesop store

August 3, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

The interior of London’s most recent Aesop store in Marylebone was organised to reference a bookshop and features bespoke timber cabinetry by furniture designer Sebastian Cox. Skincare brand Aesop’s in-house design team created the concept for the Marylebone store, which recently relocated from its original home in the London neighbourhood to Marylebone High Street. The

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