Tandem House in East London

Tandem House

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.

1 New Burlington Place Offices, London W1

1 New Burlington Place London building interior

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.

Hilltop House in Kingston-upon-Thames

Hilltop House Kingston-upon-Thames

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.

Feilden Fowles Studio, Waterloo City Farm, London

Feilden Fowles Studio London 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.

Metropolitan Police Training and Operations

Metropolitan Police Facility

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 in Teddington, Southwest London

Fairfax House

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.

St Giles Music Venue Tottenham Court Road

St Giles Music Venue

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.

Camden Highline London Design Proposal News

Camden Station Building Highline London | www.e-architect.com

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.

Alexander Chinneck Artwork at Assembly London

Alexander Chinneck Artwork London | www.e-architect.com

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.

Earlham Grove Apartments in Forest Gate: Housing

Earlham Grove Apartments

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.

Grenfell Tower Cladding, West London Fire

Grenfell Tower London cladding exposed

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.

The Boilerhouse for Royal Holloway, UoL Campus

The Boilerhouse for Royal Holloway, University of London | www.e-architect.com

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.

Sideshow London by Blackhorse Tube

Sideshow London by Blackhorse Tube Station in Walthamstow | www.e-architect.com

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.

New homes in Brent Cross, NW4 properties

New homes in Brent Cross, NW4 properties

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