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Step House extension built around perforated birch-ply staircase

August 17, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Step House extension in London by Grey Griffiths Architects

A staircase punctured with rectangle-shaped holes is the focal point of this two-storey extension Grey Griffiths Architects has added to a workers’ cottage in west London. The bespoke staircase allows light to pass from the original end-of-terrace workers’ cottage into the extension, which Grey Griffiths Architects have aptly named Step House. Situated in the district

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Step House extension built around perforated birch-ply staircase

August 17, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Step House extension in London by Grey Griffiths Architects

A staircase punctured with rectangle-shaped holes is the focal point of this two-storey extension Grey Griffiths Architects has added to a workers’ cottage in west London. The bespoke staircase allows light to pass from the original end-of-terrace workers’ cottage into the extension, which Grey Griffiths Architects have aptly named Step House. Situated in the district

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ARC Club is a London co-working space for people wanting to escape working from home

August 14, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
ARC Club co-working office in Homerton, London designed by Caro Lundin

Architect Caro Lundin took a less-is-more approach for the creation of ARC Club, a fuss-free co-working space in east London for those struggling to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic. It took just six weeks for Lundin and her self-titled studio to complete ARC Club, which takes over a formerly characterless retail unit in

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Morris + Company to extend Walter Segal’s former London home

August 4, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Morris + Company to extend Walter Segal's home in Highgate, London

Architecture studio Morris + Company has designed an extension for the self-built home of Walter Segal in north London that is “a direct homage” to the architect’s body of work. Located in Highgate, London, Segal built North Hill House for himself and his family in 1964. The London-based architecture studio will renovate and extend the home in

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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designs net-zero-carbon timber office in London

July 31, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Paradise net-zero carbon office, London, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

UK architecture studio Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has designed a six-storey cross-laminated timber office named Paradise, which will be net-zero-carbon to align with its Architects Declare commitments. The architecture studio designed the carbon-neutral office as it focuses on creating more sustainable architecture to meet the aims of climate change network Architects Declare. “As founding signatories of

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Grey brick and yellow polycarbonate contrast to create striking Peckham primary school

July 27, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Bellenden Primary School in Peckham, London, by Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture

Cottrell and Vermeulen Architecture has combined grey brick with bright-yellow polycarbonate to create a distinctive identity for Bellenden Primary School in Peckham, south London. The architecture studio designed the primary school and nursery for a site that’s enclosed by housing on all sides to be a “beacon” that fits within its south London context. “Our

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Tsubo House in Hackney features tiny Japanese-style courtyard

July 21, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

Architecture practice Fraher & Findlay has renovated and extended a home in east London, adding a small courtyard that offers glimpses of old and new parts of the property. Tsubo House was originally built in Hackney during the Victorian era and over the years had come to look shabby and unloved. The house’s current owners

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Eva Franch i Gilabert fired as AA director for “specific failures of performance”

July 13, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Breaking news: Architectural Association director Eva Franch i Gilabert has been fired by the London school two weeks after losing a vote of no confidence in her leadership. “It is with regret that AA Council has terminated the employment contract of its director, Eva Franch i Gilabert,” said a statement from the Architectural Association. AA alleges

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Aesop’s London store takes its colour from the red sandstone of Glamis Castle

July 12, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Aesop store by Al-Jawad Pike at Westfield shopping centre in Sheperd's Bush, London

Precast stone blocks coloured with red sandstone from Glamis Castle in Scotland form the walls of this refuge-style Aesop store that architecture studio Al-Jawad Pike has created in a west London shopping centre. The studio designed the small store for skincare brand Aesop to be a retreat from the bustling aisles of Westfield shopping centre

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12 mews houses that take advantage of London’s backstreets

July 11, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
10 London mews houses

The mews lanes behind London’s main streets that once contained stables and outhouses now contain homes and shops. Here are 12 of the city’s most interesting modern mews houses. Primrose Hill Mews House by Threefold Architects, Primrose Hill Threefold Architects renovated this Victorian mews house in Primrose Hill to reinstate some of the building’s original details and reorganise its

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