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Project • By IQ Glass UK • Residential Landscape
Ravensdon Street
A Victorian Side Return Extension Enhanced by Slim Pivot Doors
Located within a traditional Victorian terrace in South London, Ravensdon Street demonstrates how contemporary glazing solutions can transform existing homes through light, openness and a stronger connection to outdoor space. The project centred on the creation of a side return extension that reconfigured the property's layout, creating a larger kitchen and dining area while establishing a direct relationship between the interior and garden.
A pair of bespoke aluminium pivot doors supplied by IQ Glass became the defining architectural feature of the extension, providing expansive views, generous access to the garden and a refined contemporary aesthetic that complements both th... More
Project • By Tola Ojuolape • Art Galleries
Collector's Lounge
The Collectors Lounge (2026) set within the West Wing of Somerset House is imagined as a contemporary take on the Maker’s Library, an inviting, flexible space where craft, materiality and curiosity sit side by side.
We wanted the space to feel like a place people naturally gravitate toward: tactile, storied, and quietly expressive. Sponsored by Trimble SketchUp, the lounge also reflects the tools that shape how many of us work today. We sketched, tested ideas, and modelled the space in SketchUp, using it as a way to play with form and bring the vision into focus, showing how digital tools can support a design process rooted in hand, material, and intuition.
James Harris
Nick Benett
Nick Benett
Part working loung... More
oxford street 334
For 334 Oxford Street, anodized aluminium was used to create a façade with depth, rhythm and warmth. The building is a repurposed mixed-use development in the heart of London, where much of the existing structure was retained to reduce embodied carbon while creating a renewed and energy-efficient exterior.
Alex Upton Photography
Alex Upton Photography
Alex Upton Photography
What makes the façade especially interesting is the number of anodized colours used. Instead of working with one or two aluminium tones, the design repeats a broad palette across the building. This creates more variation and colour depth, while still keeping a clear architectural rhythm. The colours include AluRed 01, AluRed 02, AluRed 03, A... More
Project • By IDK • Universities
London School of Architecture
The restoration and refurbishment of a late 19th century church hall in Dalston to provide a design education centre for the most accessible architecture school in the UK, the London School of Architecture.
Jim Stephenson
Jim Stephenson
Jim Stephenson
Working within a tight budget, IDK designed an affordable scheme to convert a church hall in disrepair into a design education centre for the London School of Architecture.
Jim Stephenson
Jim Stephenson
Resources were channelled to where absolutely necessary, with the layers of previous piecemeal additions stripped out to return the building to a sense of its former self. This created the necessary spaces for a super flexible community institution. The Lo... More
Project • By Urban Radicals • Streets
Street Assemblies
What if civic buildings in London’s Square Mile transformed from enclosed institutional structures into a horizontal system integrated into the fabric of the streets, opening up and encouraging public participation across discussions on the future of London and its people?
Luke O'Donovan
For the 20th anniversary of the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) this summer, Urban Radicals has designed 4 Street Assembly platforms across the Square Mile, which re-imagine alternative parliament typologies and forms. The installations aim to make the idea of civic assembly accessible to a diverse audience, prompting Londoners to actively engage in shaping the city’s discourse.
Luke O'Donovan
Historically focused on trade and... More
Project • By Yellow Cloud Studio • Apartments
Goldsmiths
Located inside the recently refurbished old Grade II listed Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in Hackney, London, the project is a two storey flat that has been completely reinvented, from its external building fabric and floor slab being upgraded in terms of thermal performance to its bespoke interior and decoration.
Alex Forsey
Alex Forsey
True to the studio ethos, the Goldsmiths apartment renovation combines design principles and aesthetics that showcase a belief in the use of natural materials, a muted colour palette with prominent accents and a focus on tactile, timeless qualities.
Alex Forsey
Alex Forsey
On the ground floor, a playful earthy pink tonality introduces you to the space and gets picked up i... More
Project • By OZA Design • Private Houses
Doro Apartment
IntroNearly a century ago, Battersea Power station started producing electricity for London’s expanding population. Along the river Thames, boats carried the black coal to feed the enormous steam engines that once pumped dark clouds into the sky from its notorious four chimneys. As actors of the industrial revolution, workers walked daily out the front door of their identical row houses heading to work in the foggy streets.
Edvinas Bruzas
This project has been thought as a deliberate break away from the darkness of the past to instil calm and lightness into a space that still references its historical origins. The designWorking from the traditional canvas of a Victorian house layout, the Doro apartment ha... More
Project • By OZA Design • Housing
Cranleigh Lodge
“A new definition of luxury and calm in the centre of the city.’’
Project Brief and LocationIn Cranleigh Lodge every detail is designed to distil the project to its essence, to emphasize balance and harmony rather than a superficial shine. The feeling of a peaceful sanctuary is provided by emotional design and its application with ultimately sophisticated detailing. The house stands behind a door framed by a distinctive classical stone portal. Although it is invisible from the bustling street, it lies as a hidden gem at the heart of Chelsea.
Edvinas Bruzas
As soon as you enter the garden, you are taken to a tranquil oasis, far from the commotion and chaos of the surrounding metropolis.Originally built as a smal... More
News • News • 19 Dec 2023
Chancery House transformed into new flexible workspace in Central London
Located on Chancery Lane near Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Chancery House is the site of the Silver Vaults historically used beginning in the nineteenth century for the storage and sale of fine art and silverwork. The original building was constructed in 1885 but bombed during World War II, before being reconstructed in the 1950s with portions of the original basement vaults remaining intact. The building has been sophisticatedly revitalized by local studio dMFK Architects with the interior design by Copenhagen-based Norm Architects, transforming it into a new flexible workspace featuring meeting rooms, a fitness studio, rooftop terrace, courtyards and a cafe.
Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen & Jake Curtis
The 16000 square meter project bo... More
Project • By andre kong studio • Private Houses
Stepped Loft
Andre Kong Studio has extended a Victorian terraced house in southeast London by extruding a series of stepped brick volumes hosting a new bedroom, study and bathroom.
Luke O'Donovan
The brief emerged out of two significant post-lockdown changes for the family: the arrival of another child and a shift to permanently working from home. Suddenly the family were outgrowing their house and needed more space and a refuge from the rest of the busy youth-filled household.
Luke O'Donovan
Echoing the original plan of the house, the massing follows its L-shape, breaking down an otherwise imposing mass. This is achieved with volumes that step down like a telescope, pulling out of each other, articulating clerestories for ligh... More
News • News • 8 Nov 2023
Henley Halebrown transforms former industrial building into workplace for creatives in London
98-100 De Beauvoir Road is a sophisticated adaptive reuse project located in De Beauvoir Town, Hackney, a predominantly residential neighborhood in central London. In its design for the project, London-based architecture studio Henley Halebrown remodeled a 2,500 square meter industrial building constructed in the nineteenth century into a campus-like collection of studio workspaces intended for local emerging creatives.
Nick Kane
Henley Halebrown
This retrofit project retained much of the existing fabric and embodied energy by giving new life to the brickwork, timber, cast iron and in-situ concrete frame. The original craft-based, low-tech building techniques are highlighted, while new architectural elements were de... More
Project • By GRID architects and GRID interiors • Apartments
Verna, Acton Gardens
GRID Architects’ Verna is a new development containing 210 high-quality homes in west London, and forms a key element in Ealing Council’s Acton Gardens regeneration masterplan, delivered as a joint venture between Countryside Properties and L&Q. The development provides a 50/50 split between private and affordable homes, with several different dwelling typologies comprising of maisonettes and lateral apartments forming a secluded courtyard development around a communal landscaped podium.
Jack Hobhouse
Jack Hobhouse
Verna consists of four blocks between two and twelve storeys high, with differing heights responding to the hierarchy and scale of the adjacent streets, and serving as useful wayfinding markers wi... More
Project • By Studio Tashima • Private Houses
Sekforde Stretet
At the start of our work, particularly for listed properties as this one, we like to explore the history of the building and its context. This research often finds its way into how we approach our design and defining its character.
The Modern House
Typical of the period the area of Sekforde Street was filled with a rich mix of residential, commercial and industrial activity. The street was cut into the Medieval urban fabric by the Seckford Estate in the late 1820. The construction of houses did not start until the 1830’s and completed in early 1840s - just at the start of the Victorian period. The houses were mostly owned by skilled craftspeople in trades associated with printing and the making of books … as well as trade... More
Project • By Alumil S.A • Shopping Centres
Taberner House
At a site that until 2015 housed the City Council offices in the Croydon region of London, the construction of a new residential building complex was approved. The intention for this new construction was to combine the commercial element with the needs of the local community for affordable housing. Taberner House, located almost 15 kilometers south of the London city center, is a highly anticipated project that was assigned to the architectural firm AHMM. According to the plan, 4 buildings were erected, including a 32 -story tower, which upon its completion will offer 513 new residences for rental and sale, as well as retail spaces.
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The architectural approach follows the aesthetics of its environment. The design is... More
News • News • 5 Jan 2022
Ghost Houses explores the unique nature and slim configuration of the traditional London terraced house
Exploring the unique nature and slim configuration of the traditional terraced house, the Ghost Houses project in Nunhead, London, by Fraher & Findlay takes its cue from neighbouring properties to infill the existing street scene.
Adam Scott
The two new units feature submerged rear extensions with elevated gardens that extend past the traditional building line into the garden and provide additional living space for the 2-3 bedroom dwellings. The submerged nature of the new space ensures that garden walls are low, thus protecting the neighbouring gardens and light to existing windows.
Adam Scott
Activities on each floor are linked together by a spacious ‘social’ staircase that provides space for rando... More