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Foster + Partners to design “one of London’s largest timber buildings”

November 23, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

British studio Foster + Partners has unveiled plans for The William, which will be made from cross-laminated timber and become the studio’s first timber office building in the UK. The William will be located in Queensway, Bayswater, across from The Whiteley shopping centre, which Foster + Partners is also redeveloping as part of a wider regeneration

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Glass lift viewpoint opens within Battersea Power Station chimney

November 19, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Lift 109 viewpoint designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates has opened within the rebuilt chimney of Battersea Power Station in London, which was recently revamped by architecture studio WilkinsonEyre. Named Lift 109, due to the fact the lift will take visitors 109 metres up in the air to give views across London and the power station,

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Black larch shingles cover Schindel Studio in London by Archer + Braun

November 18, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Black-painted larch shingles cover the exterior of this artist’s studio in London, designed by local architecture practice Archer + Braun. Commissioned by landscape painter Amelia Humber for the garden of her home in Leytonstone, Schindel Studio nestles between mature trees, with a black finish intended to provide a “backdrop to the changing daylight and changing

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Sumayya Vally creates Notting Hill Carnival pavilion with “a diasporic logic”

November 15, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

For this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, South African architect Sumayya Vally created a pavilion made up of fragmented parts that only came together during the course of the parade. The Counterspace principal collaborated with local artist Alvaro Barrington to create the pyramid-shaped structure, which offered a place to sit and rest during the three-day-long event

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Object Space Place uses reclaimed materials to refurbish London restaurant

November 11, 2022 Amy Peacock 0

Interior design practice Object Space Place has revamped the Apricity restaurant interior in London with second-hand furniture and reclaimed materials. The project has been shortlisted in the sustainable interior category of Dezeen Awards 2022, which will announce its winners next week. Part of the refurbishment involved removing a timber staircase to maximise usable floor space in the

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Victorian warehouse in London transformed into Greencoat Place office

November 11, 2022 Ali Morris 0

British architecture practice Squire and Partners and office design firm Modus Workspace have retained the ornate cast-iron columns and glazed tiles of a 19th-century warehouse in London while turning it into a contemporary workspace. Located in London’s Victoria, the Greencoat Place building was originally used as a warehouse, storeroom and food hall for the Army

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Nina + Co brings biomaterials into MONC eyewear store in London

November 10, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Cornstarch-foam shelves meet mycelium display plinths in this London store that Nina + Co has designed for bioplastic eyewear brand MONC. Nestled among a parade of high-end shops in Marylebone, MONC sells glasses made from bio-acetate – an acetate produced completely without fossil fuels – which are packaged using recycled leather cases and compostable cornstarch

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Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Leo Villareal “enliven the atmosphere of Thames” with Illuminated River installation

November 9, 2022 Nicole Rambla 0

Architecture studio Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has collaborated with New York artist Leo Villareal to create a light installation that spans nine bridges in London. Shortlisted in the architectural lighting design category at this year’s Dezeen Awards, the LED installation was installed across nine bridges on a 3.2-mile stretch of the River Thames in central London. Commissioned by the Illuminated

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Studio Weave adds wood-lined community space to east London library

November 5, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Studio Weave has added a wood-lined community centre to Lea Bridge Library in east London, with a red-concrete colonnade that references the original grade II-listed redbrick building. Built in 1905 in the Edwardian style, Lea Bridge Library in Waltham Forest backs onto a large green space called Friendship Gardens, which the new community

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Dezeen Debate features Selencky Parsons’ “sleek” and “handsome” Victorian extension in London

October 27, 2022 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Debate newsletter features Selencky Parsons’ extension of a Victorian home in London. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Architecture studio Selencky Parsons has extended a Victorian house in South London, adding a steel-framed structure and sliding glass doors that link its interior with a large terrace. Selencky Parsons remodelled the

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