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Dezeen and ASUS Zenbook to host Design You Can Feel exhibition during London Design Festival

September 4, 2024 Benedict Hobson 0

Dezeen has teamed up with ASUS Zenbook to curate a major exhibition during London Design Festival exploring materiality, craftsmanship and artificial intelligence. Titled Design You Can Feel, the exhibition will showcase how material qualities such as form, colour and texture can be combined to create objects or moments that awaken the senses. Featured designers include

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“Instead of the restrictive modernist concept of heritage, how about a postmodern one?”

September 3, 2024 Owen Hopkins 0

An updated, postmodern value framework for architecture preservation is needed to protect buildings that are young or ubiquitous as well as those that are exceptional, writes Owen Hopkins. It’s not uncommon for architects and clients to disagree. In fact, it’s often better that they don’t entirely see eye-to-eye. A lively exchange of ideas and opinions

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Linda Boronkay selects bold shapes and colours for The Sessile

August 29, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Former Soho House design director Linda Boronkay drew on her experience of members’ clubs when creating communal spaces at The Sessile, a rentable apartment block in north London. Created by contemporary rental brand Way of Life, The Sessile is a 310-apartment building in Tottenham Hale. Boronkay designed the interiors for the building’s communal areas, which

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Tabitha Isobel completes “warm and inviting” Regent Street store for Carl Friedrik

August 29, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interiors studio Tabitha Isobel has designed a gallery-like store in central London for luxury luggage brand Carl Friedrik, featuring a rich and inviting palette comprising dark wood, metal and draped fabrics. Carl Friedrik approached studio founder Tabitha Organ to design the company’s first physical store, located in a Grade-II listed building on Regent Street just

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Critical letter found hidden inside Sainsbury Wing false column

August 28, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

A decades-old letter has been found at the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, in which donor John Sainsbury calls its false columns “a mistake” of architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. The letter, which was found last year as the wing was undergoing work for its controversial revamp by Selldorf Architects, was written by Sainsbury, one of

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Intervention Architecture hides fold-out furniture behind walls of Florin Court flat

August 26, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

British studio Intervention Architecture designed bespoke plywood joinery to conceal furniture including a pull-down bed and a collapsible dining table inside this micro apartment in north London. The flat is located within Florin Court, a nine-storey art deco building overlooking Charterhouse Square that was designed by Guy Morgan and Partners and built in 1938. The

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Aesop clads London store with tactile bars of soap

August 22, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Skincare brand Aesop has opened a minimalist store in London’s Knightsbridge, featuring a “soap corridor” created with uniform tiles made from the everyday bathroom product. Set within a slim and narrow room on Brompton Road, the Aesop outlet is characterised by a floor-to-ceiling installation made of cream-coloured soap bars. The installation, created by architect Nicolas

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EBBA Architects brightens home in Camden with “Victorian-like” metal extension

August 20, 2024 Katie Last 0

London studio EBBA Architects has completed the renovation of a terraced house in Camden, London, adding a metal frame structure that takes cues from Victorian design. Named Camden Residence, the project comprises a number of sensitive alterations within the existing building as well as a glazed, double-height extension based around a rigid white frame structure.

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Hawkins\Brown converts former Vitra showroom into own street-front office

August 19, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Architecture studio Hawkins\Brown has taken over a former furniture showroom, giving its staff a workspace with a shop window, a social kitchen and a Richard Woods-designed cabin. The former Vitra showroom on Clerkenwell Road is now a three-level office for 250 of Hawkins\Brown’s 350 staff. The new street-front address was designed to give the architects

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Studio Est adds “brutalist elements” to Battersea Power Station apartment

August 18, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

London interiors firm Studio Est referenced the industrial heritage of Battersea Power Station when creating the interiors for this apartment set within the redeveloped landmark. The apartment’s owner wanted to transform the empty shell into a space that would reflect both his personal tastes and the home’s setting within the former art deco power station.

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