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Dezeen Debate features “robust and luxurious” brick-clad townhouses

March 23, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a row of townhouses by The DHaus Company featuring brick-clad arches. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Architecture studio The DHaus Company has finished a row of brick-clad townhouses within the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area in north London called The Arches. The homes, which replace a derelict petrol

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Dalston Works demonstrated that “timber is a viable alternative to concrete and steel at scale”

March 23, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Up next in our Timber Revolution series we look at the Dalston Works apartment complex in London by Waugh Thistleton Architects, which is the world’s largest cross-laminated timber building. Completed in 2017, Dalston Works is a 10-storey residential development in east London that contains 121 apartments with balconies as well as two ground-level courtyards, retail and

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Design should “transform people’s realities” says Resolve Collective

March 23, 2023 Francesca Tesler 0

Interdisciplinary design studio Resolve Collective talks to Dezeen about its community-focussed designs ahead of the opening of its exhibition at the Barbican Centre later this month, in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. The design collective transformed the Barbican’s Curve gallery, building a wave-like installation on site using materials that have been recycled and foraged

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Monumental brick arches outline London townhouses by The DHaus Company

March 19, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Architecture studio The DHaus Company has completed The Arches, a row of six brick-clad townhouses in a north London conservation area. Replacing a derelict petrol station, the terrace is named after the monumental arches that form the facades of each partially sunken, three-level home. The DHaus Company designed the row to echo its surroundings, which

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Dezeen Debate features BIG’s “attractive and fun” plans for River Thames office

March 16, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features BIG’s plans for an office block on the Thames. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Architecture studio BIG has been granted approval to build an office block on the South Bank in central London. The proposed development will replace a block that was built in 1989 and is

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Thirdway transforms Georgian townhouse into women-only members’ club in London

March 14, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

American members’ club Chief has set up its first London outpost inside a centuries-old townhouse in Bloomsbury, with cosy interiors conceived by design studio Thirdway. Established in 2019, Chief has locations in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where women working in senior leadership roles can connect, learn from industry peers and find

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Murray Grove housing by Waugh Thistleton kickstarted “tall-timber movement”

March 10, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

The second case study in our Timber Revolution series is Murray Grove, a London housing tower by Waugh Thistleton that has a superstructure built almost entirely from cross-laminated timber. Slotted into a residential area in Hackney, the groundbreaking Murray Grove garnered international recognition when it was completed in 2009. With a nine-storey superstructure constructed almost

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BIG set to create stepped office block on the River Thames

March 10, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Danish studio BIG has won approval for a 10-storey office described as a “series of jumping blocks” on the South Bank in central London. The 21,000-square-metre office for developer Landsec is set to replace a block that was built in 1989 alongside the former Financial Times building on the Thames. It will have a central 10-storey

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Coffey Architects adds dedicated cycle-in entrance to Broadgate office

March 9, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio Coffey Architects has revamped an office in central London and added a dedicated entrance that lets cyclists ride straight into the workplace. Coffey Architects aimed to update the “underperforming and outdated” 10 Exchange Square building in Broadgate, which was originally designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) in 2004. The studio retrofitted the lobby and three upper

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Pashenko Works adds corrugated metal and blockwork extension to Camberwell home

March 8, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Exposed blockwork and corrugated steel were used to bring a brutalist feel to this extension of a Victorian terrace in Camberwell, south London, designed by local practice Pashenko Works. Commissioned to extend the terraced home in order to accommodate several generations of the same family, the studio more than doubled its existing floor area, including the addition

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