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Moroccan riads inform London extension by Merrett Houmøller Architects and All & Nxthing

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Merrett Houmøller Architects and interior designer All & Nxthing renovated and extended the Victorian home for clients who have travelled extensively to Morocco and the Mediterranean. Merrett Houmøller Architects was founded in 2014 by architects Peter Merrett and Houmøller, and All & Nxthing was established in 2015 by Nash.

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Destudio inverts day and night zones at redesigned Casa Inversa apartment

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The clients, who recently worked with Destudio to design their pharmacy in the Spanish city, invited the studio to oversee the renovation of the 150-square-metre apartment that had been their home for two decades. This informed the decision to reduce the size of the dedicated dining area by incorporating it into a corner of the living room.

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BDP Architects Practice Information + News

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Our plans for the success of our practice will be measured against higher levels of recognition for excellence of design, employee contentment and client satisfaction. He will be the first architect to become chief executive of the BDP firm when he takes up the role on 1 January 2014. BDP Projects Information. 23 Jul 2021.

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2014 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition - The Winners

Life of an Architect

Home / Playhouse Competition 2014 / 2014 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition – The Winners 2014 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition – The Winners Bob Borson — May 26, 2014 — 15 Comments On Friday, May 23rd – we took the top 21 entries that were selected and whittled them down to the top two.

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Kaleidoscopic substation in London "celebrates the spirit of the local community"

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UK architecture studio IF–DO and artist Lakwena have wrapped an electrical substation in Brent Cross, London , in an artwork informed by rotating billboards. It was designed to be viewed by passing cars According to Lakwena, this effect was informed by the rotating billboards often seen alongside major roads.

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Who should decide what new buildings look like?

Brandon Donnelly

Founded in Sweden in 2014 as a public Facebook group, the Uprising is a collective of citizen design critics who object to what organizers call the “continued uglification” of developments in Nordic cities, and push for a return to classically informed design. How would you feel about your work?

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Roundtable: Can technology aid sustainable improvements in design?

Hotel Designs

I we need to take responsibility to keep sustainable decisions at the forefront of the design scheme because sometimes clients say sure, we want it to be sustainable but then they realise the cost implications and so you have to be creative to get through the value engineering. The question we often hear is ‘has that been done before?’