Apr 25
Retailer John Lewis approached Grimshaw to provide a temporary exhibit and event space capable of showcasing a variety of designers within its store on Oxford Street. This unique ‘pop-up’ installation called for an innovative proposal which fused exhibition design and architecture, whilst enabling John Lewis to express its brand in an exciting and striking space. …
Mar 10
Canaletto is a 30-storey residential tower on London’s City Road, designed by internationally renowned UNStudio Internationally respected architects UNStudio are bringing their visionary interpretation of how buildings should interact with their environment to a part of London which is at the nexus of some of the capital’s most creative and exciting communities. City Road Basin, on the northern …
Mar 05
Foster + Partners has confirmed to the Airports Commission, the organisation investigating airport capacity in the UK led by Sir Howard Davies, that it intends to submit a proposal to the Commission in July for a new hub airport in the Thames Estuary. The airport is part of the proposed Thames Hub, a unique opportunity …
Mar 04
Description from Foster + Partners: The ME Hotel – the first flagship hotel in which everything, from the shell of the building to the bathroom fittings has been designed by Foster + Partners – has opened in London. An elegant fusion of interior and exterior design, the scheme completes the grand sweep of buildings that make …
Nov 26
Inspired by Aztec and Mayan patterns, as well as contemporary Mexican street life, Chimichanga is a two-floored restaurant rendered in bold red and green with shiny glass tiles, patterned floors of reclaimed wood, and walls of cracked antique mirrors designed by London-based Brown Studio, in Billericay, UK
Nov 13
The Linear Park borrows much from the New York’s High Line, providing gathering places for play and leisure, whether active or passive, away from the traffic-laden streets. The inspiration for the Linear Park comes from New York’s magical High Line, a mile long park built on an elevated section of the former New York Central …
Nov 09
Description from BuildTank (Emma-Kate MATTHEWS & Wendy Teo BOON TING): The ‘striphouse’ is designed to wrap and twist around the trunk of a coconut palm tree. The stair treads clamp gently onto the tree trunk to provide an ascending, twisting route into the main enclosure, which sits above ground like a cocoon. The cladding consists …
Oct 08
Mixed-Use Building of the year award: Steven Holl Architects with Daeyang Gallery & House, South Korea Residential Building of the year award (single occupancy): Architectureburo Govaert & Vanhoutte with Villa Roces, Bruges, Belgium Residential Building of the year award (multiple occupancy): Rafiq Azam with S.A Residence, Dhaka, Bangladesh Commercial Building of the year award: WOW …
Aug 16
First stage winning proposal for Isover Multi-Comfort House Contest 2012, an international two-stage competition. The aim of the competition is to create regeneration and community development in Trent Basin, Nottingham, UK, which meet passive house requirements. Under the current economic pressure, cities are no longer able to develop the way they used to, especially in …
Aug 14
Description from Serie Architect: The British have a particular fondness for the Victorian bandstand. Not much more than a lightweight roof supported on slender columns the idea of the bandstand is to get close to nature by stripping back the architecture to a minimum. There is no role for exotic form and shape-making: the architecture’s …
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