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Architecture for London designed these house extensions – they are a sensible way to enlarge and improve your home, but sharing the overall costs demonstrates a future economic model for Londoners living on a budget in terraced housing.
A pair of grade II listed Georgian townhouses – one transformed into a retail unit, the other returned to a family home. The project includes 79,000 sqft of office space over 6 floors, 33,000 sqft of retail space over 3 floors, as well as an enhanced public realm and an internal courtyard.
Commissioned in 2012, architects Coupdeville were asked to design a five bedroom house on a large 0.26 acre single plot, while retaining the existing building.
The timber frame structure clad with corrugated Onduline sheets, can be dismantled and re-erected. The materiality and approach evoke agricultural building forms. The interior is dominated by British Douglas Fir wood, bathed in natural light.
Working with Mace to produce a turnkey project, architects Bennetts Associates complete a new Training and Operations facility for the Metropolitan Police Service at their historical Hendon site, creating a contemporary, flexible learning and working environment.
Fairfax House by architect office Coupdeville replaces a modest 1930s bungalow, which sat on a generous plot that the family had lived in for 10 years, always with the idea of creating a new family home on the site.
Architects: Orms. Located by the new Crossrail exit at the crossroads of Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road, New Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, St Giles Circus has just started onsite and will provide two new live music venues within the Tin Pan Alley revival scheme.
Crowdfunding campaign raises £64k, almost double its initial target. Transformation of a 0.8km disused Camden railway line into a new public park. Inspired by New York’s iconic High Line it will provide pedestrian and cycle routes to world-famous Camden Market.
British artist Alexander Chinneck has completed his latest monumental artwork entitled ‘Six pins and half a dozen needles’ on Assembly London, the new office campus in Hammersmith developed by AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets.
Architects: BuckleyGrayYeoman. Situated on a brownfield site, 140-150 Earlham Grove will consist of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments, arranged over 6 storeys in blocks A and B and 5 storeys in block C.
News of ‘systems tests’, assessing the fire safety of whole buildings, from Building Research Establishment (BRE). The first test was of a wall cladding system consisting of ACM with polyethylene filler and foam insulation. 82 buildings are known to have this combination of materials in their wall cladding systems.
Building design by Cartwright Pickard Architects comprising new café pavilion and event space carefully inserted into original Boilerhouse courtyard. The project also renewed the Grade I Listed Founders Building plus the original stable block.
Blackhorse Workshop and specialist regeneration company U+I present new installation celebrating maker culture at Equipment Works site near Blackhorse Road station, acknowledging rich history and heritage of former factory whose prototypes inspired iconic Routemaster bus designs.
Architects pH+ and City & Suburban Homes have received planning permission to build 38 new homes in Brent Cross, an area soon to be transformed by multiple developments. The design of Gladstone Parade therefore responds to the local vernacular