Archinect

MARCH 17, 2022

Our lives fluctuate, but save for the odd floating office or experimental walking house, our buildings remain anchored in place. A new building in London, however, offers an interesting alternative: demount and move elsewhere. Image courtesy IF_DO Learn more about the building here.

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Deezen

MAY 1, 2024

UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has been granted planning approval for office and residential development 18 Blackfriars Road, which the studio claims will be net-zero carbon. Located on a two-acre brownfield site in London 's Bankside, 18 Blackfriars Road will contain two residential blocks and a 45-storey office skyscraper.

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Architectural Record

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Amin Taha–led studio preserves and expands a humdrum postwar building at 8 Bleeding Heart Yard while cleverly echoing its Victorian predecessors.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Developer HUB and investor Bridges Fund Management have revealed plans to convert a 1950s office building in London into Cornerstone, a co-living residential scheme designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. AHMM was established in 1989 by Simon Allford, Jonathan Hall, Paul Monaghan and Peter Morris in London.

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Archinect

APRIL 3, 2023

The west coast operation of London-based auction house Phillips has a new home courtesy of Los Angeles’ Formation Association. Their West Hollywood design was unveiled recently and features a remodeled series of existing structures that includes three showrooms, a covered patio, and offices set amongst a bespoke covering of ficus trees.

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Deezen

APRIL 30, 2024

Interior design studio Holloway Li has reimagined the office of advertising agency Mother London using bespoke furniture that nods to the 1970s to enhance its industrial setting in Shoreditch, London. The photography is by Felix Speller.

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Deezen

MAY 2, 2024

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the approval of Foster + Partners' 18 Blackfriars Road development in London. UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has been granted planning approval for 18 Blackfriars Road, a development that will contain two residential blocks and a 45-storey office skyscraper.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

UK practice Heatherwick Studio is set to turn the 177-metre-high BT Tower in central London into a hotel , following its sale to American hotelier MCR Hotels. This is an extraordinary building and an amazing opportunity to bring it back to life," said Heatherwick Studio founder Thomas Heatherwick.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2024

London studio dMFK Architects has renovated a 1970s office in Fitzrovia with an interior designed to match the building's original character and heritage. London studio dMFK Architects was established in 2000 by Julian de Metz, Paul Forbes and Ben Knight.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

British architecture studio Allies and Morrison has completed a university building for London College of Fashion at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London. It has a concrete structure Spread across 17 floors, the 40,000-square-metre building by Allies and Morrison is designed to operate as a "vertical campus".

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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

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Archinect

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Heatherwick Studio has offered a first look inside their new Shanghai studio, the first overseas office to be opened by the London design firm. The office is located within 1000 Trees, a building designed by Heatherwick which opened in 2021.

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Deezen

APRIL 12, 2024

Promotion : Swiss furniture brand Vitra is expanding its European presence through a programme of showroom openings in renovated, distinctive historic buildings. The brand, which is known for high-end office and home furniture by leading designers, has embarked on a programme of showroom expansion and renovation to add to its global presence.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 2, 2022

UK real estate developer Art-Invest has announced Matthias Hollwich and the team at HWKN Architecture will be the designers for a new commercial tower at the Canada Water Dockside in London. The tower will be one of three new commercial buildings built on the 4.5-acre acre development, which will be master-planned by BIG.

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Deezen

MAY 6, 2024

Architecture studio EBBA has completed a store for coffee brand WatchHouse that draws on modernist design to provide a calming environment in the heart of the City of London. In particular, Allan drew on the large lobbies of banks and civic buildings such as libraries, which he said seem to "carry a particular feeling of calmness".

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2024

Below are eight examples that showcase the versatility of internal openings and partitions, ranging from a colourful home extension featuring playful, circular windows in London to an open-plan kitchen punctuated with brass-lined portals in Toronto.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Architecture studio Eric Parry Architects has updated its plans for the One Undershaft skyscraper in the City of London , increasing its height to make it the UK's joint tallest building. The updated plans would increase the skyscraper's height making it, by one metric, the joint-tallest building in the UK. metres AOD.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan , has refused a planning application for the Populous -designed spherical music venue MSG Sphere London , as it would have caused "unacceptable harm to hundreds of residents". It was also concerned that due to its high energy usage, the building would not be sustainable.

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

London studio Oskar Kohnen has outfitted a Mayfair office with mid-century modern furniture and contemporary pieces, which "are so well curated that no one would ever dare to throw them away". Spread across three floors, the office is housed within a rectilinear building in London's Mayfair neighbourhood with a gridded facade.

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The Spaces

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Soaring 51 storeys up on the western fringe of London’ s City cluster, a new office tower is taking the capital’s otherwise languishing commercial real estate market by storm. In tough conditions, 8 Bishopsgate is demonstrating there is life in the UK offices sector yet. The dark glass we have used is 40% insulated.

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2024

Architecture office Mooradian Studio used spray-on paper pulp to create a bumpy texture across the walls and ceilings of north London menswear store Natalino. The studio focuses on reusing materials as part of a "gentle building philosophy" that also engages with contemporary craft practices. The photography is by Thomas Adank.

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Deezen

APRIL 29, 2024

Architecture studio dMFK Architects has restored and renovated the Voysey House office in Chiswick, London , which was originally designed as a wallpaper factory by architect CFA Voysey. This included replacing the non-original windows with steel reproductions of the original frames.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

The interiors in this lookbook show how even period buildings, from an Edwardian London townhouses to a 1950s Norwegian home, can be renovated to have colourful, modern and playful interiors. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The site for a new 21-story office building, dubbed Friars Bridge Court, from PLP Architecture is unique in terms of the surrounding architecture. The new building will replace an old office building from 1991 at the northern end of Blackfriars Road in the London Borough of Southwark.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Netflix release follows the story of Izi and Benji, played by actors Kane Robinson and Jedaiah Bannerman, who are residents of London's last remaining social housing complex, The Kitchen. Is the dystopia here or is it in this more polished version of London?" I wanted to flip the idea of dystopia on its head," he added. "Is

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Deezen

JUNE 20, 2023

Built alongside Victorian mansions and Regency villas in the north London suburb of Hampstead, the two-storey house was made from lightweight steel and glass and is accessed across a drawbridge. These structures were surrounded by two independently structured wings that contain offices and laboratories.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Dezeen has announced the 235 projects longlisted for this year's Dezeen Awards in the architecture categories, including buildings by Santiago Calatrava , Renzo Piano and MAD Architects. Read on for the full architecture longlist: Townhouse Neubaugasse by PSLA Architekten. 24 Public dwellings in Platja d'en Bossa by 08014 Arquitectura.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

UK architecture firm Studio Egret West has shared its plans to create housing within two concrete 1960s buildings in London , which were formerly the headquarters of food company Heinz.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Katherine and James and their two kids are originally from New Zealand but have lived in London, UK for many years. Budget dictated a facelift of the existing structure rather than a rebuild so the design is a sort stage-set behind which a lot of the original building still sits. How long…and how much?

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Deezen

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This year's roundup of the most popular and interesting projects UK architecture featured on Dezeen also features award-winning homes , including a remote house in Ayrshire named Scotland's best new building and a London home with a bamboo-planted facade that was awarded RIBA's House of the Year.

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Deezen

MAY 4, 2024

Curved metallic surfaces influenced by early 20th century American industrial design form displays at this compact store in New York City , designed by London studio Tutto Bene for eyewear brand Cubitts. The post Tutto Bene references Streamline Moderne in tiny New York eyewear store appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Local studio SODA has used warm colours and natural materials to create the first store for tea brand Chai Guys on Portobello Road in London 's Notting Hill neighbourhood. The brand is a modern take on chai with its black dynamic typography layered over clean and minimal design," Menezes explained.

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Deezen

MAY 3, 2024

In London, dMFK Architects restored and renovated the Voysey House office in Chiswick. Originally designed as a wallpaper factory by architect CFA Voysey, the building is Grade II-listed and has a striking facade that was carefully repaired to its "former glory".

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The top project city locations are London , with 18 longlisted entries, followed by Shanghai with seven and Sydney and Paris tied with four each. Other longlisted projects include a monochromatic office in Barcelona, a restaurant with a curved metal-mesh ceiling in London and a retail space featuring salvaged and biomaterials.

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Deezen

JUNE 21, 2023

A home clad in recycled TV screens and a fishbone-shaped bridge have been named among the winners of the Royal Institute of British Architects ' National Awards for 2023, which was dominated by projects in London. These include Agar Grove in Camden, London, a Passivhaus social housing project by Mæ that comprises 57 new homes.

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The Spaces

JANUARY 11, 2023

A lot of history imbues this City of London property designed by Bank of England architect Arthur Conran Blomfield as offices for Christ’s Hospital. Inigo is listing the London property for £1.7m. Inigo is listing the London property for £1.7m. Artist Mark Humphrey’s London flat is a living artwork.

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Deezen

JANUARY 25, 2024

UK architecture studio DaeWha Kang Design has designed a pavilion and courtyard for The OWO hotel at the site of the former Old War Office in Whitehall, London. The pavilion is as much a sculptural piece as it is a building within the courtyard." The photography is by Kyungsub Shin.

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