Crown Estate West End developments news

21-29 Glasshouse Street London property design news

The crown estate unveils next major West End projects as part of its largest ever development programme. Pair of landmark schemes to deliver more than 169,000 sq ft of commercial space at 10 Piccadilly and 21-29 Glasshouse Street, bringing together high-quality workplace with retail and hospitality uses

Spring Gardens Piazza London design news

Spring Gardens Piazza London design news

Planning permission has been granted by Westminster City Council for Spring Gardens Piazza, creating an inviting new oasis in the heart of central London. A significant site between Trafalgar Square, The Mall, St James’s Park, next to Grade I listed buildings Admiralty Arch and Carlton House Terrace

Botanica Sales Gallery, Phuket, Thailand

Botanica Sales Gallery Phuket Thailand property design

Inspired by Zen philosophy, the Botanica Sales Gallery, Phuket, Thailand, is a study in the duality of weight and lightness, as well as an exploration of spatial versatility. Rhyme Design Group’s design challenges the conventional boundaries of a sales gallery

Rennie Mackintosh Architect, Glasgow architecture

Glasgow School of Art building ruin news

The Glasgow School of Art will apparently announce that fire-ravaged art school will not be rebuilt as it was — replaced instead by a modern block behind a retained façade. This wolrd-famous building by celebrated Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is of great significance for Scotland’s design heritage

Chaves House, Vila Real, Portugal home

Chaves House Vila Real Portugal home

Chaves House is not only a response to a place—it is a mediation between architecture and nature. NOARQ saw the site’s fragility as a design opportunity, turning a seemingly unbuildable plot into a home that hovers lightly above the earth. Its form is born from respect: for water, for light, and for the land it inhabits in Portugal

Rotterdam ROCKS, The Netherlands by MVRDV

Rotterdam ROCKS Visitors Centre The Netherlands

Rotterdam ROCKS! by MVRDV is the first Shift Embassy – initiated by the Shift Foundation, whose ambition is to make sustainability visible, tangible, and actionable for a broad public. Located on the south bank of the Maas, at the landing of Rotterdam‘s future third city bridge

Casa De La Juventud, Alcalá de Guadaíra Youth Centre

Casa De La Juventud, Alcalá de Guadaíra Youth Centre

Alcalá de Guadaíra Youth Centre, 17 km southeast of Seville, Spain designed by Felipe Retuerto + Dunar Arquitectos. In contrast to the enclosed nature of the pre-existing building—the former municipal market—the Casa De La Juventud project proposes an open, accessible and permeable place, capable of connecting the different levels of its surroundings and becoming part of the network of public spaces in the town centre

E.Wedel Chocolate Factory, Warsaw exhibition

E.Wedel Chocolate Factory, Warsaw exhibition design

E.Wedel Chocolate Factory Warsaw, Poland design by architecture studio WWAA. This exhibition takes visitors on a journey from the cocoa bean to Wedel’s iconic packaging, revealing the remarkable expertise, creativity and human effort behind flavours that generations have come to cherish

EcoNeo Summerhouse, North West Zealand, Denmark

EcoNeo Summerhouse North West Zealand Denmark

SAGA Space Architects has revealed EcoNeo, a 35 m² digitally fabricated summerhouse that brings the studio’s space-habitat thinking back to Earth. Designed around the same principles that guide architecture for extreme environments – compact living, resource efficiency, and human well-being in Denmark