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Ten designers create products from a single dying ash tree for SCP

September 25, 2022 Alice Laycock 0

Furniture company SCP has tasked a group of British designers including Faye Toogood and Sebastian Cox to craft objects from the wood of a tree infected with ash dieback disease for this year’s London Design Festival. The resulting pieces, ranging from furniture and lighting to decorative objects, are currently on display as part of the One Tree exhibition the brand is hosting in its

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Jan Hendzel tracks down “super special” London timbers to overhaul Town Hall Hotel suites

September 23, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Living room of suite 109 in Town Hall Hotel with pink-upholstered sofa and armchair by Jan Hendzel at LDF

Reclaimed architectural timber and wood from a felled street tree form the furnishings of two hotel suites that designer Jan Hendzel has revamped for London’s Town Hall Hotel in time for London Design Festival. Suites 109 and 111 are set on the first floor of the Town Hall Hotel, which is housed in a converted Grade II-listed

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Stanton Williams draws on Stonehenge and Shakespearian theatres for Henge installation

September 22, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

Henge in Canary Wharf by Stanton Williams

British architecture studio Stanton Williams looked to ancient and historical communal designs when creating Henge, a sculptural stone installation that is on display in Canary Wharf as part of London Design Festival. Located at Wren Landing in London’s business hub Canary Wharf, the monolithic Henge installation comprises thirty 2.4-metre-high stone slabs, each weighing 300 kilograms

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“Open House champions the city as a form that can inspire you”

September 21, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

As the 30th-anniversary edition of the Open House Festival draws to a close today, commenters including mayor of London Sadiq Khan and architect Farshid Moussavi and incoming RIBA president Muyiwa Oki reflect on the impact the event has had on the city. Launched in 1992, the Open House Festival has seen thousands of London’s most significant buildings,

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Revamp of Venturi Scott Brown’s National Gallery extension would be “an act of vandalism”

September 13, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architects, critics and academics are concerned about Selldorf Architects’ plans to remodel Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s postmodern Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London. Plans to overhaul Venturi, Scott Brown’s extension to the National Gallery in central London have been described by detractors as “damagingly destructive”, “an act of vandalism” and a “tepid shower of

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Thirty of London’s most architecturally significant buildings to mark 30 years of Open House

September 8, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This year, Open House Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary. Since it began in 1992, many of London’s most significant buildings have opened their doors during the festival. Here are 30 of the most interesting. The festival, which aims to engage people living in London with the buildings surrounding them, has seen thousands of landmarks and

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Opening buildings to strangers is “a funny thing” say Open House Festival curators

September 2, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Portraits of Zoë Cave and Phineas Harper

As the Open House Festival embarks on its 13th year, curators Zoë Cave and Phineas Harper reflect on the value, past and future of the annual architecture event in this exclusive interview. “During the Open House Festival you can visit London’s most iconic historical and contemporary architecture and on the very same day,” explained Cave, who

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AMO recreates “Provence atmosphere” with clay Jacquemus shop-in-shop

August 22, 2022 James Parkes 0

Image of the Jacquemus Selfridges store through a window

Dutch studio AMO has created a terracruda-clad shop-in-shop with curving tiered shelving for French-fashion brand Jacquemus at luxury department store Selfridges. The boutique was installed as a permanent retail space located on the ground floor of London department store Selfridges and is host to Jacquemus bags and accessories. Designed by AMO, the research and design

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Cake Architecture creates London office space spread across two contrasting floors

August 21, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Ask Us For Ideas office by Cake Architecture

Cake Architecture has designed a workspace for London agency Ask Us For Ideas using materials and forms that are in “complimentary contrast” with each other. Split across the ground floor and basement of a building in southeast London’s New Cross, the office offers a new home to Ask Us For Ideas (AUFI) – a consultancy

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Mole Architects completes iridescent building in London’s Design District

August 17, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Iridescent aluminium sheets clad the rhomboid-shaped D2 building, a creative workplace by Cambridge studio Mole Architects that forms the latest addition to London’s Design District. D2 is Mole Architects’ second completed building at the Design District development on Greenwich Peninsula, where eight firms including SelgasCano, 6a Architects and David Kohn Architects each designed two structures

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