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Studio Octopi adds mint-green extension to Georgian house in London

March 21, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

Architecture practice Studio Octopi has added a rear extension clad in mint-green metal to The Saddlery, a Georgian house in southeast London. Wedged between a pub and a row of Georgian homes in Lewisham, the dwelling has been extended to create an additional entertaining space and a secondary entrance. Studio Octopi’s design uses the extension to

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Cúpla decorates Rixo Marylebone store with hand-painted murals

March 19, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Interior design studio Cúpla has completed a boutique for fashion brand Rixo in central London that features hand-painted illustrations and colourful zellige tiles. The clothing store on Marylebone High Street was revamped by Cúpla, whose creative director Gemma McCloskey is the twin sister of Rixo co-founder Orlagh McCloskey. The interior designer had previously designed the brand’s

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“Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites”

March 18, 2024 Owen Hatherley 0

Peter Barber’s architecture proves that providing social housing at scale without making the design mistakes of the past is eminently possible, writes Owen Hatherley as part of our Social Housing Revival series. Once upon a time, everyone knew how to solve a housing crisis, or at least they thought they did. The solution was quantity.

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V&A’s Tropical Modernism exhibition explores “the politics behind the concrete”

March 14, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has launched its Tropical Modernism exhibition, which highlights the architectural movement’s evolution from colonial import to a “tool of nation building”. According to the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), the exhibition aims to examine the complex context, power dynamics and post-colonial legacy of tropical modernism – an architectural style that

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Ten modernist council estates that made a “vital contribution” to London’s architecture

March 13, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

As part of our Social Housing Revival series, Dezeen asked the creator of the new London Estates book to select the 10 most influential examples of modernist council housing built in the UK capital in the post-war period. Balfron Tower and Dawson’s Heights are among the estates featured in the book, which showcases social housing

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James Shaw installs jumbo foot in London Camper store

March 12, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

British designer James Shaw has renovated a shop for fashion brand Camper on London’s Regent Street, which features a giant foot-shaped sculpture that functions as a till and a bench for trying on shoes. Located in a ground-level room within a building on Regent Street in central London, the store reopened last week. Shaw redesigned

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Matthew Lloyd Architects’ Bourne Estate was designed for “extreme longevity”

March 11, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Continuing our Social Housing Revival series, we revisit the regeneration of the Grade II listed Bourne Estate in north London, completed in 2018 by local studio Matthew Lloyd Architects. Situated in the London borough of Camden and commissioned by the local council, the project by Matthew Lloyd Architects saw the demolition and replacement of an existing

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“Subtle luxury” defines Rachel Boston jewellery store

March 1, 2024 Clara Finnigan 0

Interior design studio Hollie Bowden Interiors has created fine jeweller Rachel Boston’s flagship store and showroom in London. Located in Shoreditch’s Redchurch Street, the store is split into four main areas – the retail space, private appointment area, workshop and office space for the jeweller’s team of 12. The store aims to blend a neutral

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Allies and Morrison completes “21st-century factory” for London College of Fashion

February 29, 2024 Starr Charles 0

British architecture studio Allies and Morrison has completed a university building for London College of Fashion at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. Conceived as a “21st-century factory”, the London College of Fashion (LCF) building is defined by its gridded concrete structure and a rectilinear facade lined with tall warehouse-style windows. “We think of

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Foster + Partners unveils curving office building at Battersea Power Station

February 28, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed 50 Electric Boulevard, an 18,580-square-metre workplace within London’s Battersea Power Station development. Located along Battersea Power Station’s pedestrianised high street, Foster + Partners designed the building and its interiors to function as flexible and adaptbale office space. “50 Electric Boulevard’s soft undulating form creates a varying floorplate, which

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