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Black & Milk creates understated bachelor pad in London’s Canaletto Tower

May 19, 2017 Ali Morris 0

British interiors studio Black & Milk has redesigned an apartment for a city trader in Canaletto Tower, a luxury residential skyscraper designed by UNStudio on London’s City Road. Black & Milk’s client asked the firm to create an interior with “a hint of understated luxury”. In response, the studio redesigned the apartment’s open-plan living room to accommodate a formal

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Trevor Horne Architects completes 12-sided art gallery in south London park

May 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

London studio Trevor Horne Architects has completed a gallery and apartment building on the site of the former Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, featuring folded brick walls topped with a glazed events space. The building on Tyers Street is the first permanent location for Cabinet Gallery, which was founded in Brixton in 1991 but had previously been operating from premises

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Hand-glazed tiles cover Savile Row office building by EPR Architects

May 9, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Ten thousand ceramic tiles make up the facade of this office building on London’s Savile Row by EPR Architects, which is shown in a movie by photographer Jim Stephenson. The seven-storey structure is situated on the corner of Conduit Street and Savile Row, the street synonymous with London’s tailoring history, and home to the city’s

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Simon Astridge stacks shipping containers to create backyard London office

May 8, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

UK architect Simon Astridge has used shipping containers, exposed plasterwork and clay lighting to create the offices and showroom for a London tile manufacturer. Astridge designed the Porcelain Gallery for Pentagon Tiles in a conservation area within Hatton Garden in London’s Camden. As part of the brief, Astridge was tasked with creating office space in the backyard of the showroom, and so chose

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Edwin Lutyens’ Midland Bank reopens as hotel and members’ club The Ned

May 5, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Edwin Lutyens’ Midland Bank building in the City of London has been renovated by Soho House & Co and the Sydell Group to accommodate a lavish hotel, club, multiple dining venues and a bar in the former vault. The Ned is the latest project by Soho House & Co, which also transformed a derelict farm in

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Silver & Co transforms London garden shed into multifunctional studio for artist couple

May 4, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A sunken bed and folding ping-pong table feature in this studio converted from a derelict garden shed for a pair of artists in west London. London-based studio Silver & Co renovated and refurbished the garden shed for a sculptor, a painter and their child, creating a self-contained studio that can also be used as a gallery or a guest bedroom. Most of the

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McLaren Excell contrasts smoked oak with white panelling for London home in a former office

May 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

White ribbed panelling provides a neutral backdrop for smoked-oak furnishings and marble bathrooms in this former west London office, which McLaren Excell has converted into a family home. London-based McLaren Excell completely overhauled the two-storey Rylett Crescent building in London’s Shepherds Bush, which was originally an industrial laundry facility before it was converted into offices. The architects

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McLaren Excell contrasts smoked oak with white panelling for London home in a former office

May 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

White ribbed panelling provides a neutral backdrop for smoked-oak furnishings and marble bathrooms in this former west London office, which McLaren Excell has converted into a family home. London-based McLaren Excell completely overhauled the two-storey Rylett Crescent building in London’s Shepherds Bush, which was originally an industrial laundry facility before it was converted into offices. The architects

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London mayor pulls plug on Garden Bridge

April 28, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

London mayor Sadiq Khan has withdrawn support for the Thomas Heatherwick-designed Garden Bridge by refusing to sign the vital financial guarantees that would allow building to go ahead. In a letter addressed to the Garden Bridge Trust chair Mervyn Davies today, Khan said he would not guarantee funds for the bridge’s operation and maintenance. He cited the potential for spiralling construction costs

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Overseas investors are exacerbating London’s housing crisis, say experts

April 25, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Foreign investors are using illicit wealth to buy up property in luxury developments across London, out-pricing locals, according to a new anti-corruption report. The UK anti-corruption organisation Transparency International (TI-UK) investigated the sale of 2,066 properties across 14 new developments in the capital to calculate the number of overseas buyers and the effect on the capital’s housing crisis. The

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