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Selldorf Architects reveals first round of designs for National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing redevelopment

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An important update has been issued to one of the most-watched cultural projects in the UK this afternoon after Selldorf Architects released their initial plans for the redesigned Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery of Art in London. A proposed loop connection of the Sainsbury Wing. Image courtesy Selldorf Architects.

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National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London

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No longer awkward or overlooked, the National Portrait Gallery can now stand confidently facing the city: the great historic building Londoners never knew they had.” The Gallery in St Martin’s Place, London is currently closed until 2023, while essential building works take place on the [link] redevelopment project.

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St Pauls Cathedral Library London building

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Paul’s Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD, England, UK St Pauls Cathedral Library Restoration 12 th October 2023 – St Paul’s Cathedral has reopened its Library to members of the public, after five years of restoration work starting in 2018.

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Bell Phillips creates The Tree House pavilion at London's Elephant Park

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London studio Bell Phillips has completed a timber pavilion in a park in Elephant & Castle featuring an elevated viewing gallery nestled among the boughs of a mature plane tree. The 18-square-metre kiosk is located in a unit at the prominent southern corner of the site. Paths wind through and around the building.

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James Gibbs' Book of Architecture, Draughts for a Menagery

Jane Griswold Radocchia

But first: what he is best known for: St, Martin in the Fields, in Trafalgar Square, London. Its plan is composed of squares, all the same size. The layout is simple: 6 squares. Or, one square and a third of the next one. The Lines of the crossed squares locate the columns. Draw the square, add the x.

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Woods Bagot explores ‘the future’ of the luxury hotel design

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Samer Charara, Woods Bagot Principal and Dubai Studio Chair, explores why hotels are leaving behind escape in favour of experience… In his role at Woods Bagot , Charara has worked on The Londoner , the recently-completed Minthis Hills, 25hours Hotel One Central Dubai and many other hotels and hospitality projects.

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James Gibbs' steeples

Jane Griswold Radocchia

Martin in the Field, Trafalgar Square, London, begun in 1722, completed in 1726. The parts layer one on the other following a diagram, a pattern - which I refer to as the square and its circle. This is the square base, Part 1, upon which Part 2 - the base of which is the crenelated line - will be built.

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