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10 Pavilion Highlights from the London Design Biennale 2025

Antonia Piñeiro — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:30:00 +0000

The fifth edition of the London Design Biennale is taking place at Somerset House from 5 to 29 June 2025. The theme of this year's edition is "Surface Reflections," an invitation to explore "the dynamic interplay between internal experience and external influence." The curatorial proposal, set by British artist and designer Samuel Ross, encourages a focus on the underlying layers of the objects, systems, and spaces that shape our daily lives. The Biennale exhibition is a journey through 35 pavilions by countries, institutional design teams, and curators, presenting soundscapes, immersive experiences, and performances, as well as sculptural and evocative objects. To confront contemporary global challenges, topics include identity, memory, innovation, technology, craftsmanship, ecology, and belonging.

Rammed Earth Yoga Studio / Invisible Studio

Andreas Luco — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The new Yoga Studio at the Newt Hotel in Somerset is the third building at the Hotel completed by Invisible Studio and is a complementary building to both the Gym (Room in a Productive Garden) (to which it sits adjacent) and the Beezantium.

Fitzjames Teaching and Learning Centre / Feilden Fowles

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 14 May 2015 03:00:28 +0000

The Fitzjames Teaching and Learning Centre, Hazlegrove School by Feilden Fowles has won an RIBA South West Award 2015 and the RIBA South West Client of the Year Award 2015. The jury commented that the ‘building is a testament to the fact that the client - architect relationship was extremely capable of delivering stunning architectural solutions that inspire and enhance the users' experience’.

Drawing Matter Archive / Hugh Strange Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Site & Brief

Kings College Library / Mitchell Taylor Workshop

Megan Jett — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Mitchell Taylor Workshop have an increasing interest in education buildings, that grew out of working on projects like the (RIBA award winning) ‘Room 13’ project. Kings College in Taunton commissioned the new 500m2 library in 2008. The site is tight and reasonably complex: existing listed buildings had to be retained at ground level and were enveloped in a jigsaw like fashion by the new building. At ground floor are offices, resource spaces and teaching spaces, and at first floor is the library. The site dictated a deep plan building, which ultimately drove the architectural solution – a series of lofty saw tooth north lights that provide large levels of natural light and ventilation. This also evolved from a series of earlier proposals which were more ‘conventionally radical’: it is often easier for architects – us included – to proposal an alien, radical piece of design, and our first proposals were for a shimmering, brass and copper clad box with a series of continuous fins that varied as to the level of light control they provided.