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Central London Flat / VW+BS

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

It is always tricky to understand how some properties in London turn out as they do. Even with the help of the amazing site, www.british-history.ac.uk, which details the history of the development of nearly every street in London, you still can’t quite fathom why someone would divide up what should have been a gracious first floor drawing room into an awkward galley kitchen with a more than four metre high ceiling, and then a long and narrow but again very high living room. At the rear of the flat on two floors, were a warren of dark bedrooms and bathrooms. This was the flat in a Kensington street at the time we were asked to redesign it.

Periscope / VW+BS

Megan Jett — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Periscope is an office building located in the Upper Circular Road conservation area in Singapore. This area is made up of warehouses and shophouses that serviced the commercial activity around the nearby Singapore River until the latter half of the 20th century. The area has recently undergone regeneration and the restored buildings that now accommodate offices, hotels, restaurants and shops.

De La Beche Manor / VW+BS

Megan Jett — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

An entrepreneurial couple approached us with 5 children, a sixth on the way and a number of pets, to help them refurbish the house they had just bought on a 20-acre estate in Berkshire. The house, dating from the 19th century, had been added on to in a piece meal fashion by various owners with very mixed results. This resulted in a series of awkwardly arranged and disconnected rooms that were very dark and did not suit modern family life.