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Erbar Mattes creates “expansive feel” for brick house in London

July 31, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

London studio Erbar Mattes has completed a timber-framed house in Wimbledon that is formed of three mono-pitched structures unified by buff-brick cladding. Erbar Mattes was tasked with creating a modern four-bedroom family with the same footprint as a bungalow that previously occupied the site at the end of a street in the former Belvedere Estate.

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Tutto Bene uses silk and glass details to create “artist’s loft” Cubitts store

July 30, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Design studio Tutto Bene looked to surrealist artworks and Italian modernist exhibition design when creating the interior for this eyewear store in Islington, north London. Set in the Angel area, the 60-square-metre store belongs to eyewear brand Cubitts and features an interior concept conceived by Tutto Bene based on the architecture of the space itself. “It’s a

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Tuckey Design Studio creates “monastery-like” interiors for Bough Terrace in London

July 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

London practice Tuckey Design Studio has refurbished a Victorian terrace in Knightsbridge, stripping back its interiors to create a tactile yet minimalist home. Named Bough Terrace, the existing three-storey building had suffered severe water damage and had over-compartmentalised interiors with poor access to natural light. Tuckey Design Studio prioritised the retention of the building’s original

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John Lewis set to build its first housing development in London

July 29, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

UK department store John Lewis has received planning approval to create 353 rental homes on its Waitrose supermarket site in Bromley, London. The build-to-rent homes will be owned and managed by the John Lewis Partnership, the company that operates John Lewis stores and Waitrose supermarkets, among other services. With approval granted by the London Borough of

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James Shaw’s light-filled London home is almost entirely underground

July 26, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Lumpy recycled plastic furniture and circular skylights characterise this sunken London house, which designer James Shaw concealed on a 60-square-metre plot for himself and his family. Located in a conservation area in east London, the two-storey dwelling was constructed by Shaw and his friend, architect Nicholas Ashby. The neighbourhood’s planning restrictions required the pair to build

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Alison Brooks Architects creates copper-clad London home with “folding geometry”

July 25, 2024 Katie Last 0

Site constraints and local architecture guided the angular form of Mesh House, a copper-clad home that London studio Alison Brooks Architects has completed in Belsize Park. Characterised by recessed and projecting bays, the home’s playful form responds to its narrow, triangular site and planning restrictions limiting building height and prohibiting any impact on the daylight

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KPF set to cut terraces into Foster + Partners’ HSBC skyscraper

July 19, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture studio KPF has unveiled plans to turn the Foster + Partners-designed HSBC tower in Canary Wharf, London, into “a blueprint for the highly sustainable, mixed-use building of the future”. Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) will turn the office building at 8 Canada Square, which is owned by Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) into a mixed-use development

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Buckingham Palace’s chinoiserie interiors revealed following five-year renovation

July 15, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Porcelain lions, nine-tiered pagodas and a lotus-shaped chandelier feature in Buckingham Palace’s newly refurbished east wing, which has opened to the public for the first time in its 175-year history. The east wing at London’s Buckingham Palace, which opened this month, houses a series of decadent interconnected rooms including the centre room, which leads to

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RSHP to transform world’s largest cluster of Victorian gas holders into housing

July 11, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

British studio RSHP has received planning consent to build cylindrical housing blocks within Victorian gas holders at the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks in London. RSHP’s plans to redevelop the gasworks will include refurbishing the Grade II-listed gas holder frames, which date back to the 1870s, and building residential buildings within and around them. The redevelopment, which was approved by

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RSHP to transform world’s largest cluster of Victorian gas holders into housing

July 11, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

British studio RSHP has received planning consent to build cylindrical housing blocks within Victorian gas holders at the Bromley-by-Bow Gasworks in London. RSHP’s plans to redevelop the gasworks will include refurbishing the Grade II-listed gas holder frames, which date back to the 1870s, and building residential buildings within and around them. The redevelopment, which was approved by

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