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McLaren Excell adds contrasting pale-brick extension to black-painted Victorian house

July 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pair of interlocking volumes clad in pale brick and fronted by large, frameless windows extend the rear of this Victorian house in west London, which has been overhauled by McLaren Excell. Local studio McLaren Excell was tasked with renovating the property and a former stable yard in the Richmond area of London to create a house

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31/44 Architects adds contemporary red-brick house to traditional London terrace

July 15, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The homogenous red-brick facades and decorative tiled relief of this house tacked onto the end of a south-London terrace by 31/44 Architects reference details found on its older neighbours. The London- and Amsterdam-based practice designed the Red House as a speculative project for developer Arrant Land, which had acquired the end-terrace lot and adjacent property

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Amin Taha Architects reconfigures London home around lightwells and a spiral staircase

July 9, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

London studio Amin Taha Architects has updated a 1950s terraced house in the city’s Bayswater neighbourhood, adding a basement level topped with a rugged concrete soffit and a lightwell set into a courtyard garden. The property at Caroline Place is part of a brick terrace that originally featured a layout informed by typical Edwardian homes,

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Dirty Bones restaurant in London’s Soho aims to recreate the glamour of Studio 54

July 8, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

London restaurant Dirty Bones took inspiration from 1970s Brooklyn for its new space in Soho, which features velvet seating, a wood-panelled bar and a toilet hidden behind a faux bookshelf. In-house designer Lotti Lorenzetti oversaw the fit-out of the restaurant, located on Denman Street. The aim was to combine the “the loft-style apartments of Brooklyn and the glamour

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Dusty Pink Tiles Help This New Retail Store Stand Out From The Crowd

July 4, 2017 Erin 0

Photography © Max McClure 2017   UK based interiors and branding studio, B, have recently completed a new Papersmiths retail store in Boxpark, Shoreditch. As B and Papersmiths are owned by the same people, Sidonie Warren and Kyle Clarke, it was easy for them to put their minds together to create an out-of-the-box idea for the new […]

This converted London print factory is a co-working space for makers

July 2, 2017 Emma Tucker 0

London’s Palmspace co-working studio occupies a former factory that has been adapted to offer extra room for artists and makers. The space – which was launched by Hackney Downs Studios and created by an in-house design team – has individual workspaces set apart by steel-framed shelves, which double as drying racks. There are also desks

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Grenfell Tower disaster exposes UK’s “dangerous, ugly, cruel and uncaring” approach to social housing, say architects

June 30, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Architects have attacked the culture of cost-cutting and “value-stripping” in UK construction, which they believe contributed to the fatal Grenfell Tower fire. “This terrible event may prove to be the shock that finally forces commissioning public clients and the construction industry to take design quality and specification seriously,” said Paul Karakusevic of London-based Karakusevic Carson Architects. “Value

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Gianni Botsford Architects’ Corten steel extension hosts private art collection in central London

June 30, 2017 Lizzie Crook 0

Rust-toned frames cover the facade of this extension to a central London home, which Gianni Botsford Architects designed to house its owner’s private collection of photographs, prints and lithographs. The client’s need for storage evolved into the design of a gallery added to the rear wall of the Grade II-listed five-storey home, which forms a connection with the outside. “The aim

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Jailmake overhauls south London home to make kitchen garden the focal point

June 26, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

South London studio Jailmake has redesigned this once “ill-functioning” 1960s house in Peckham by opening up the kitchen and dining area to a spacious garden. The East Dulwich-based studio, which is made up of 3D designers and engineers, completely reorganised the layout of the two-storey home, opening up the ground floor to redirect the “flow”of movement though the house. The sense of

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MWAI uses pale grey tones in west London flat renovation for two design enthusiasts

June 25, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

London studio MWAI has used a soft-grey palette to update an apartment on the upper floors of a Victorian terrace in Little Venice, applying the tone to chevron-patterened tiling and oak floors. The architects used geometric tiling and shades of white and grey to emphasise the space and lightness within the minimalist home, which they created for two design enthusiasts and their growing family.  At

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