NLA Exhibition, New London Architecture Centre

NLA Exhibition, Architecture, Buildings, Images, Dates, Venue, Planning, Suburbs NLA Exhibition London : Architecture Shaping the Polycentric City, England – Architectural Event UK 26 Sep 2008 From Pizza to doughnuts: How the new Mayors planning policies will change the flavour of London NLA Exhibition A major new exhibition at the New London Architecture centre (NLA) … Read more

London Fire Brigade HQ Building – Headquarters

London Fire Brigade HQ, Architect, Albert Embankment Building, Residential Development London Fire Brigade Headquarters : Extension Mixed-use Architecture on the Albert Embankment – design by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands 23 Sep 2008 London Fire Brigade Headquarters Extension Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands to celebrate history in redesign of London Fire Brigade HQ Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has been appointed … Read more

John Latham Flat Time House London

John Latham Flat Time House London

The House is now home to the John Latham Foundation and the John Latham Archive, and will be the primary location for a 10-month programme of exhibitions and events exploring the artist’s practice, his theoretical ideas and their continued relevance.

Libertys Store London – Regent Street Shop

Libertys Store London, Architecture, Shop, Images, Location, Shopping, Picture Liberty of London : Store Regent Street Store, central London, England, UK: Information + Photos 17 Sep 2008 Liberty of London Store Photos © Adrian Welch, Sep 2008 Liberty’s department store Location: Regent Street, east side, south end – between Soho and Mayfair Tube Station: Oxford … Read more

Young Vic Theatre, London Southwark

Young Vic Theatre, London Southwark building

Young Vic Theatre, London arts venue design by Haworth Tompkins Architects. The Cut is a cheerfully scruffy part of south London into which in the 1970s architect Bill Howell introduced the Young Vic at a cost of a mere £60,000

Serpentine Pavilion Gallery 2008: Frank Gehry

Serpentine Pavilion Gallery 2008 by Frank Gehry

The highly articulated structure – designed and engineered in collaboration with Arup – comprises large timber planks and multiple glass planes that soar and swoop at different angles to create a dramatic multi-dimensional space.

Hampstead House, Heath Park Property

Robert Adam Architects’ designs for a substantial classical house in Hampstead, replacing the 1970s Heath Park building, have been granted planning permission

45 Park Lane Mayfair, London Dorchester Collection

Paul Davis + Partners, in collaboration with The Office of Thierry W. Despont Ltd., has achieved planning permission from Westminster City Council for the conversion, refurbishment and re-facing of 45 Park Lane for client Dorchester Collections

Architecture Foundation Discussion: Brutalism

Francis Bacon’s life, from 1909 – 1992, covered an exceptional period of transformation in architecture and art. He worked at a time when continental modernism, in art, architecture and design, was reinvented in a British context.

Bishopsgate Project, 120 Middlesex Street

Starting on site this month is the transformation of two (1930’s and 70’s) back-to-back low-rise office buildings on a busy London thoroughfare into tranquil residential accommodation overlooking a secluded courtyard.

Michael Faraday School, Southwark Building

Planning permission has just been granted by Southwark Council for the SMC Alsop designed Michael Faraday Community School – the first primary school to be transformed under the Southwark Schools for the Future programme.

Private Library, London Contemporary Interior

The new library space was conceived as an architectural celebration of liberation through enlightenment. The journey to the new space requires a climb through the seventeenth century to reach the twenty first.