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Mae designs senior day-care centre in southeast London to tackle social isolation

October 25, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Mae Architects has completed the John Morden Centre, a day-care and health facility that explores solutions to the issue of loneliness among elderly people. The centre forms part of Morden College, a long-standing retirement community in Blackheath, southeast London, that is home to more than 300 senior residents. As well as providing medical facilities that include

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Former RIBA presidents say revamp will turn the Sainsbury Wing into “an airport lounge”

October 24, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

Eight former presidents of the Royal Institute of British Architects have objected to Selldorf Architects’ revamp of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, calling it “insensitive”. Paul Hyett, Sunand Prasad, Ruth Reed, Angela Brady, Stephen Hodder, Jane Duncan, Ben Derbyshire and Alan Jones filed their objections in the public comment section of the Westminster planning portal

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Selencky Parsons adds pavilion-like extension to The Weathered House in London

October 24, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

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. Named The Weathered House, the project was designed for a client who requested improvements to the living spaces of their semi-detached property in Sydenham. Selencky Parsons remodelled

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Nimtim Architects extends London home to create “sanctuary” overlooking walled garden

October 22, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Nimtim Architects has renovated a Victorian maisonette in Camberwell with a warm palette of natural materials and a lush walled garden. Appropriately named Walled Garden, the project was designed by Nimtim Architects to provide the owner with a “place of reflection and sanctuary from the city”. The design responds to a brief calling for

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Hayhurst & Co designs London school with a “landscape sensibility”

October 21, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Hayhurst & Co has completed the Edith Neville Primary School near King’s Cross, with pockets of landscape and external play spaces wrapped by a filigree screen of white aluminium mesh. Located within a wider masterplan for Central Somers Town developed by architecture practice DSDHA, the new school stands on a site that was

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Magpie House extension is a “personal museum” for client’s furniture collection

October 20, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice DGN Studio has extended a terraced home in east London with spaces and materials that form a backdrop to the client’s mid-century furniture collection. The brief for Magpie House initially focused on opening up the ground floor of the north-facing home, before expanding to encompass a renovation of its first floor, with the

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Selldorf Architects revises plans for National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing

October 20, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

New York studio Selldorf Architects has made changes to its revamp of the postmodern Sainsbury Wing at London’s National Gallery, which had been criticised as “damagingly destructive”. The plans to remodel Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s postmodern Sainsbury Wing were first revealed earlier this year and met with heavy criticism from heritage bodies and architects. The

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Apple reveals Foster + Partners-designed offices at Battersea Power Station

October 19, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Apple CEO Tim Cook has unveiled visuals of the tech giant’s offices within Battersea Power Station, which it is designing with UK studio Foster + Partners. As revealed by Cook in a tweet, the office is expected to open early next year and will provide a workspace for many of Apple’s corporate employees based in

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Surman Weston uses architecture as “enabler for a great cause” at Hackney School of Food

October 17, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Architecture studio Surman Weston has created a teaching space for children to learn about food in Hackney, London, which has been awarded the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2022 by the RIBA. Named the Hackney School of Food, the project occupies a red-brick house adapted by Surman Weston into a community hub for the area in east London.

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“Highly-intelligent” 333 Kingsland Road named UK’s best affordable housing

October 13, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road in London, which was designed by local architecture studio Henley Halebrown, has won RIBA’s Neave Brown Award for Housing. The hybrid project containing a school and 68 apartments for not-for-profit housing charity Dolphin Living, was named this year’s winner at a ceremony in London. Awarded by the Royal Institute

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