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Platform 5 Architects completes textural home on London infill site

January 18, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Local practice Platform 5 Architects has completed NW10 House, a family home on an infill site in north London with exposed concrete interiors and a textured brick exterior. Occupying a corner site that was formerly a builder’s yard, Platform 5 Architects designed the three-storey home’s irregular, blocky form in response to the area’s planning constraints and

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Waugh Thistleton Architects designs “visibly sustainable” mass-timber office in London

January 18, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

London studio Waugh Thistleton Architects has unveiled the Black & White Building, a mass-timber office building designed for The Office Group in Shoreditch with a slatted tulipwood facade. The 17.8-metre-high office building, which the studio says is the “tallest mass-timber office building in central London”, was built from a combination of beech, pine and spruce

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Studio Hallett Ike adds dark brick extension to London flat

January 11, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

White, minimalist living spaces sit within a raw exterior of rough brick walls and galvanised steel openings at this extension to a ground-floor flat in east London, designed by local practice Studio Hallett Ike. Set within a Georgian townhouse in the De Beauvoir area of Hackney, London and Oxford-based Studio Hallett Ike was tasked with

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Yellow Cloud Studio extends London home with internal courtyard

January 6, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

London architecture and design practice Yellow Cloud Studio has completed Courtyard House, the renovation of a Victorian terrace in Stoke Newington, creating bright living spaces that overlook an internal courtyard. Yellow Cloud Studio completely overhauled the east London home, retaining only its “bare tectonic skeleton” and introducing new finishes throughout alongside a newly-created rear extension.

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PDP refurbishes art deco office block with jewel-like extensions in glass and steel

January 5, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

London practice PDP has renovated Eighty Strand, an art deco office building on the Strand, restoring its original finishes and complementing them with glazed pavilions that reference the style’s geometric forms. Located at 80 the Strand, the building was originally designed in 1930 by architects Messrs Joseph, serving as the headquarters of Shell-Mex and British

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Cast House extension by EBBA features brown concrete and vaulted ceiling

January 2, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

EBBA Architects has completed a house extension in east London that combines brutalist-style materials with details inspired by a classic Roman villa. The project, called Cast House, is a rear extension to a Victorian terraced house, creating an enlarged room incorporating a kitchen, a dining space and a conservatory. EBBA’s design features a number of distinct

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Tala Fustok fills Hyde Park apartment with contemporary art and vintage furniture

December 28, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Tala Fustok Studio has transformed the interior of an apartment in west London into a “calm sanctuary” containing carefully chosen artworks and furnishings influenced by the travels of its owner. The Palace Gate apartment is located on the fourth floor of a Victorian mansion block neighbouring Hyde Park in the Royal Borough of Kensington and

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Dallas Pierce Quintero references industrial sheds for Forest Houses on London infill site

December 24, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Dallas Pierce Quintero has completed a cluster of houses in London with sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding that nod to the site’s former use as a builders’ yard. The project, named Forest Houses, is located beside Wanstead Flats parkland in Newham and is conceived as a prototype for reimagining unloved brownfield and infill sites.

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Rooftop extension to FAT’s Blue House revealed in drone film

December 22, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This video shot by architectural photographer Edmund Sumner shows the pebbledash-covered rooftop studio that architect Sean Griffiths recently added to the postmodern Blue House in London. The extension is designed “in the spirit” of the much-lauded original house, which Griffiths designed in 2002 as his own home alongside FAT partners Charles Holland and Sam Jacob. Clad in pink-toned pebbledash, the addition

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Renovated Mayfair pub The Audley is filled to the brim with art

December 22, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Artworks by Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud and more can be seen throughout The Audley pub and its restaurant in London’s Mayfair, designed by architecture studio Laplace. The venue occupies a listed five-storey building dating back to 1888, which formerly functioned as a pub with rooms for staff upstairs. Now, the ground-floor public house has been

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