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Gary Card redesigns London’s LN-CC store with orange tunnel and LED-lit club

April 11, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designer Gary Card has given London’s LN-CC boutique a redesign that includes a sci-fi-looking wooden tunnel and a room “shaped like the inside of a foot”. Card, who designed the original interior of the east London store in 2011, said the challenge for him was using the knowledge he has accumulated since then to create

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Bell Phillips creates Cosway Street housing block with fluted precast brick facades

April 8, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

Scalloped facades featuring tones of cream and red brick define a U-shaped housing block by Bell Phillips in Marylebone in central London. Named Cosway Street after the road on which the building sits, the design of the 49-home development in the Lisson Grove Conservation area aims to repair the fragmented streetscape by re-establishing the urban

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Fletcher Crane Architects completes pale brick home overlooking Richmond Park

April 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

UK studio Fletcher Crane Architects has completed Kingston Villa in Richmond, London, offering a contemporary “evolution” of the area’s typical suburban architecture in pale brick and metal. Tasked with turning a dilapidated bungalow on the edge of Richmond Park into a new family home, the Surrey-based studio drew on its neighbouring buildings to create a

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Barbican’s Unravel exhibition explores the subversive power of textiles

April 5, 2024 Francesca Tesler 0

Curator Lotte Johnson discusses the transformative power of textiles in this video produced by Dezeen for the Barbican’s latest exhibition. Titled Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, the exhibition examines how textiles have been employed to explore themes spanning power, oppression, gender and belonging. It features over 100 works that make use of

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Fulham reveals swimming pool-topped stadium alongside Thames

April 2, 2024 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Football club Fulham FC has unveiled renders of its Populous-designed Riverside Stand at its Craven Cottage stadium in London that show a rooftop swimming pool. Described as “a European football stadium first”, the rooftop pool overlooking the Thames forms part of the redevelopment of the Riverside stand for the Premier League football team. Designed by

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Tigg + Coll Architects moves studio into converted Victorian mission church

April 2, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

Tigg + Coll Architects has converted part of an abandoned mission church in west London into a flexible studio, with the rest of the building set to be turned into homes. The studio, led by architects David Tigg and Rachel Coll, has completed the first phase of a redevelopment project that will see all of

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Mooradian Studio sprays London boutique interior with recycled newspaper pulp

March 27, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture office Mooradian Studio used spray-on paper pulp to create a bumpy texture across the walls and ceilings of north London menswear store Natalino. Taking over a former art gallery in Fitzrovia, Natalino’s first physical store was designed to reflect the brand’s garments. “Nathan’s clothes use a lot of natural textures and you can often

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The DHaus Company revamps London house with butterfly-roof extension

March 25, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. The DHaus Company reconfigured and extended the ground floor of the home to improve its dining area while providing more private living spaces for the client’s teenage children.

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Selfridges launches The Joke Shop with playful Slapstick Generator artwork

March 24, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

London department store Selfridges has opened The Joke Shop, a “shoppable comedy store” that sells products including sneezing powder and has windows filled with whoopee cushions and slipping bananas. Located in the corner store space on Selfridges’ ground-floor level, The Joke Shop pop-up store was designed by the retailer’s in-house team. The shop, which the

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Studio Octopi adds mint-green extension to Georgian house in London

March 21, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

Architecture practice Studio Octopi has added a rear extension clad in mint-green metal to The Saddlery, a Georgian house in southeast London. Wedged between a pub and a row of Georgian homes in Lewisham, the dwelling has been extended to create an additional entertaining space and a secondary entrance. Studio Octopi’s design uses the extension to

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