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Keith Williams Architects’ residential-led project at 38-44 Rye Lane, for developer Reality Holdings, unanimously approved: 716 m2 of retail with 27 residential units above, replacing a dilapidated 3 storey 1960s converted office building.
Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Richard Rogers Fellowship winners news. Richard Rogers’s Wimbledon House in London was restored by British architect Philip Gumuchdjian and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan.
A timber extension has been completed by Studio Carver in Belsize Park, North-West London. Designed for a young Anglo-American family, the extension was inspired by traditional timber conservatories of the Mid-West.
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. The new public space at the base of The Leadenhall Building spans over half an acre, the largest area of publicly accessible space created in the City of London for a decade.
Grenfell Tower Fire – massive blaze engulfs 24-storey block of flats in west London, dating from 1974. Over 200 firefighters are tackling the blaze. The building was recently reclad and renewed internally.
PDP London Architects achieve Planning Consent for Luxury Hotel and Residences at the former In & Out Club on Piccadilly. Heritage driven scheme approved at Westminster City Council committee paving way for 102 key five star hotel and 7 apartments on site of the former In & Out Club and adjacent properties.
Second Home opens a new 15,000 sq ft rooftop space in its critically-acclaimed building in Spitalfields, East London, designed by Spanish architects SelgasCano. Surrounded by pools filled with aquatic plants on all sides and featuring over 800 tropical trees and plants, it extends the original building.
London-based architecture practice Sybarite designed a new Japanese restaurant, Yen in London. The restaurant design includes Japanese materiality, design cues and construction techniques.
Foster + Partners’ plans for the rebirth of the Snowdon Aviary building at ZSL London Zoo – transforming the historic exhibit into a state-of-the-art walk-through primate enclosure, and restoring the Grade II* listed structure.
SimpsonHaugh has produced a building underpinned by a taut geometry. 31-storey Dollar Bay features an angular, glass façade with folds and creases which capture the light differently and evoke a waterfall gathering pace as they descend.
LLI Design complete a total redesign and refurbishment of a 7 storey townhouse in Highgate, a leafy and desirable part of North London. The owners desired a colourful and practical home.
The Borough of Islington unanimously voted to grant consent for a new commercial tower development, designed by Make, marking the corner of Ropemaker Street and Finsbury Pavement.
BuckleyGrayYeoman’s refurbishment has in-filled under-used spaces, rearranged the cores and servicing and added a two-storey extension to create 2,900 sqm of additional space on the site in London.
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets approves plans by Stockwool Architects for a 785-home regeneration scheme – the first major project to come forward as part of the Poplar Riverside Housing Zone.