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October 13, 2023
Creative co-working in de Beauvoir Trellik Design Studio has revamped a former Victorian nuts a bolts factory into a co-working creative space in Hackney’s de Beauvoir town. Photos Ed Dabney and Mariell Lind Hansen Hackney-based practice Trellik Design Studio has turned a small site in de Beauvoir town, originally a Victorian nuts a bolts factory […]
October 2, 2023
Dodi Moss and SAB have teamed up to transform the site of a disused confectionary factory in Genoa into a welcoming community centre. Jacopo Gresleri visits a project that represents the first move in a strategy of reclaiming former industrial spaces to enrich civic life. Words Jacopo Gresleri Photos Anna Positano, Gaia Cambiaggi /Studio Campo […]
September 28, 2023
Landfall In 2008 Rupert Cook designed an energy-efficient, flood-proof retirement home for his parents on Hayling Island in Hampshire. John Pardey pays a visit to see how the house, and its occupants, have weathered the last 15 years. Words John Pardey Photos Timothy Soar Hayling Island, situated in the midst of the idyllic Chichester Harbour, […]
September 18, 2023
Madrid-based practice SelgasCano has completed a visually-striking office building at London’s Design District as the creative neighbourhood celebrates its second birthday. Photos Taran Wilkhu Designed by SelgasCano, Building B1 forms part of London’s Design District – the capital’s first permanent, purpose-built workspace for the creative industries located on Greenwich Peninsula. The visually-striking four-storey building includes […]
September 12, 2023
Haworth Tompkins’ industrial achievement Haworth Tompkins gives the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham the UK’s first new-generation vertical industrial building Haworth Tompkins has completed Industria, the UK’s first multi-storey light-industrial scheme, for BeFirst, the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’s regeneration company. The project provides over 11,400 sqm of floor space, accommodating 47 small […]
August 31, 2023
Jonathan Tuckey Design has restored a 19th century hillside farmstead in the Piemonte region of Northern Italy into a home and studio for a fashion designer and naturalist. Nestled on a hillside in the Piemonte region of Northern Italy Cascina was built as a 19th century farmstead consisting of three stone volumes – a two-storey […]
August 31, 2023
Oliver Leech Architects’ skilful manipulation of light, space and materiality has resulted in a visually-striking Surrey home that supports assisted living. Designed by Oliver Leech Architects, Butterfly House is a multi-generational dwelling located in Esher, Surrey. Commissioned by Nikki and Richard Earthrowl, the two-bedroom property occupies part of the couple’s garden and is intended for […]
August 29, 2023
Senior Technical and Design Advisor Marcus Franklin of Wienerberger UK – sponsor of the School of Specification – answers readers’ questions on brick rainscreen cladding. Wienerberger’s Corium brick tile cladding was specified by Marks Barfield Architects for the Cambridge Mosque Why choose a brick rainscreen over a traditional brick façade? Brick rainscreen cladding offers the […]
August 25, 2023
dMFK Architects has delivered a cluster of slender towers on a brownfield site near Wembley Stadium dMFK has completed a new 24 storey building for Barratt London on a brownfield site close to Wembley Stadium. The building, which contains 229 new homes, affordable workspaces, and carefully considered new public realm, is conceived as a composition […]
August 24, 2023
Charles Holland Architects’ multicoloured lighthouse illuminates Dover’s historic seafront. When Charles Holland sends you an email with the subject line, “I’m Looking Out For You” – you open that email. Sadly, however, Charles was not looking out for me quite as sincerely as his email subject indicated. In fact, the email, as I quickly realised, […]
August 21, 2023
KnoxBhavan has completed an exemplar low-carbon house on a challenging brownfield site in south-west London. Photos Edmund Sumner Designed by KnoxBhavan, Threefold House is a new-build, low-energy, single-family dwelling located on triangular-shaped site in Teddington, south-west London. Restricted access had rendered the 450-square-metre plot unsuitable for industrial use and for local housing associations. The client, […]
August 14, 2023
London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman’s colourful work, Abundance, gently makes its way around Paddington Central. Greeting visitors to Paddington’s amphitheatre is Abundance. Designed by Adam Nathaniel Furman, who was born just a stone’s throw away at St Mary’s hospital, the artwork, as its name suggests, abounds with colour — and delight. Gently tracing and demarcating a […]
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