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Crafty past of London’s East End informs Norton Folgate offices

October 29, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Universal Design Studio has brought in weavers, enamelers, and other creative makers to decorate workspaces within the Norton Folgate development in east London’s Spitalfields neighbourhood. Norton Folgate is a 330,000 square foot mixed-use site comprising a total of six buildings, three of which have interiors curated by Universal Design Studio: 16 Blossom Street, Nicholls &

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Hawkins/Brown and East to lead pedestrianisation of London’s Oxford Street

October 24, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studios Hawkins/Brown and East have been selected to lead the pedestrianisation plans for Oxford Street, initiated by London mayor Sadiq Khan. The news, revealed by the Greater London Authority (GLA) this morning, follows Khan’s announcement in June that plans for the redevelopment would move ahead “as quickly as possible”. More than 1.1 kilometres of the

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Uncanny Studio revamps and reconnects rooms within 1930s London penthouse

October 23, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

A better sense of flow has been created between the rooms of this London penthouse, which design firm Uncanny Studio has decked out with marble, walnut wood and other luxury materials. The studio overhauled Primrose Apartment, which is set on the top floor of an art deco-era building that overlooks Regent’s Park in central London.

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Infill housing centre by Owain Williams Architects is “a public building in miniature”

October 22, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Owain Williams Architects has transformed a disused garage site in London into the Stroud Green Housing Centre, creating a public drop-in space and office fronted by a large timber gate. Tucked between terraced houses on a 38-square-metre site near Finsbury Park, the centre forms the headquarters of Stroud Green Housing Co-Operative, which relocated

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Uchronia designs celadon-hued suite at Mandarin Oriental hotel as “weird underwater world”

October 17, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design studio Uchronia has showcased works by British artists, including chairs made from extruded plastic and seafoam-green glass sculptures, in a suite at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park for Frieze Art Fair. The suite, which comprises a bedroom, bathroom and lounge, is decorated in the hotel’s signature celadon-green shade, developed with colour specialist Pantone. It

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Mason & Fifth offers short and long stays in canal-side building by AHMM and TiggColl

October 17, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

London studios AHMM and TiggColl have completed a 12-storey building near Notting Hill, combining hotel stays and residences under the same roof. Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park is located beside the Grand Union Canal, on a site that once housed the headquarters of London’s Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association. It is the third property for operator

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Chilean rock library forms centrepiece of Mareida restaurant by DAW

October 14, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

Forty-eight rocks were handpicked from a Chilean mine to form the centrepiece of Mareida, a London restaurant designed by Macarena Aguilar Izquierdo of Santiago-based studio DAW. Mareida is the brainchild of owner Prenay Agarwal, who wanted to bring Chilean food, design and culture to London. The rock library is one of several custom pieces inside

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DHaus brings “sense of openness” to Datum House with wall-to-wall skylight

November 12, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio DHaus has used a full-width skylight to draw light into this extension in north London, which is finished with a pared-back palette of pale brick, plaster and oak. Named Datum House, the existing Victorian maisonette in the Dartmouth Park Conversation Area has been opened up by DHaus at its lower ground-floor level and

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Jason Good Architecture tops London home with patinated copper “top hat”

November 10, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A roof of dark patinated copper distinguishes this house in Wimbledon Village, London, designed by local architecture studio Jason Good Architecture. Jason Good Architecture drew on the leafy neighbourhood’s combination of Arts and Crafts-style architecture and more modern houses for the two-bedroom dwelling, which replaces an existing 1980s cottage. “We aimed to design a house

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EBBA and Charlotte Taylor design London listening bar “dedicated to sound”

November 10, 2024 Clara Finnigan 0

Warm adaptive lighting, acoustic panelling and woodblock columns cocoon Space Talk, a listening bar in London designed by local architecture practice EBBA and designer Charlotte Taylor. The hi-fi bar, set on St John’s Street in the central neighbourhood of Clerkenwell, is divided into four distinct zones – each featuring a different curation of sound and

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