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Dockley Apartments in London take cues from collective housing in Europe

December 20, 2022 Katie Last 0

Residential units and a shared courtyard feature in this angular mixed-use scheme in London, designed by architecture firms Studio Woodroffe Papa and Poggi Architecture to encourage communal living. Named Dockley Apartments, the Southwark development comprises 111 homes around a central courtyard, along with commercial, restaurant and retail spaces on the ground floor. The building ranges

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Sean Griffiths adds pebbledash extension “in spirit of original house” to FAT’s Blue House

December 19, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architect Sean Griffiths has added a pebbledash-covered rooftop studio to the seminal postmodern Blue House he designed 20 years ago as part of architecture studio FAT. The extension completes the house that Griffiths designed, along with Charles Holland and Sam Jacob, as one of FAT’s first built projects in 2002. “The project was very much a piece of unfinished

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Dishoom Canary Wharf recalls 1970s Irani cafes near Bombay Stock Exchange

December 19, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Prolific restaurant Dishoom has opened its first new London venue in five years, featuring an interior designed around a “financial fraudster from the 1970s”. As with previous venues, restaurant co-founders Shamil and Kavi Thakrar teamed up with architecture studio Macaulay Sinclair on the design of Dishoom Canary Wharf. Referencing its setting near many of London’s banking

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C20 campaigns for Peckham Library to be made UK’s first 21st-century listed building

December 12, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architectural charity Twentieth Century Society has made a bid for architect Will Alsop’s Peckham Library to become the first 21st-century building in the UK to receive protected status. The Twentieth Century Society (C20) submitted an application to make Peckham Library a grade II*-listed building to protect it from plans to add “intrusive new rooftop plant

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Holloway Li co-founder’s apartment features kitchen informed by fish-and-chip shops

December 12, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

A steel kitchen that references London’s many fast food shops takes centre stage in this apartment designed by local studio Holloway Li for its co-founder Alex Holloway, which also has a bathtub in the living room. Located in north London’s Highbury, the apartment is set in a converted Victorian house and was renovated to create

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Self-Portrait wraps London store in mint-hued Cornish clay and tonal surfaces

December 12, 2022 James Parkes 0

Luxury fashion brand Self-Portrait has opened a store in London with mirrored surfaces and Cornish clay walls that combines “minimalism, materiality and colour.” Located on the corner of Kings Road and Duke of York Square in Chelsea, London, the 200-square-metre store was designed by Self-Portrait founder and creative director Han Chong in collaboration with New

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Butterfly House renovation contrasts traditional features with modern materials

December 12, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

British studio Will Gamble Architects has modernised a heritage-listed terraced house in south London, adding a series of bespoke joinery elements that help to repurpose the existing living spaces. Known under the nickname Butterfly House, the project involved the refurbishment and reconfiguration of a Grade II-listed home in Lambeth for a couple of lawyers and

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Christ & Gantenbein adds “techno-futuristic” lobby to Oxford Street office

December 8, 2022 Katie Last 0

Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein has completed its upgrade of UK House on Oxford Street, adding a baroque-influenced lobby informed by the building’s history. The renovation of the Grade II-listed building aims to respond to the need for communicative corporate architecture. Designed to be a welcoming “place of arrival”, the new lobby combines the baroque

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“Ordinary yet quirky” Red House in Dorset named UK’s best new home

December 7, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

The Red House in southwest England by London studio David Kohn Architects has been named the RIBA’s House of the Year for 2022. Located in rural Dorset, the two-storey family home is distinguished by its playful yet restrained exterior that juxtaposes patterned red brickwork with bright green details. The House of the Year award is

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Monumental Damien Hirst sculptures feature inside Bacchanalia London restaurant

December 6, 2022 Rupert Bickersteth 0

Interior architect Martin Brudnizki Design Studio has created a classical Greek and Roman mythology-informed restaurant complete with sculptures by British artist Damien Hirst in Mayfair, London. Named Bacchanalia London, the restaurant is located on a corner site of 1 Mount Street in Mayfair that was previously a Porsche showroom. Opened 1 December, the restaurant has an opulent interior designed by

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