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Locke at East Side Gallery / Grzywinski+Pons

Valeria Silva — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Locke at East Side Gallery is a 176 room hotel with a cafe, bar, lounge, co-working and event spaces that Grzywinski+Pons designed at the heart of the eponymous memorial in Berlin’s Friedrichshain neighborhood. When the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall — among history’s most direct architectural manifestations of repression — organically transformed into a canvas for the free expression of international artists, The East Side Gallery was born.

Corner View House / Freehaus

Andreas Luco — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Corner view house was built by Architect and Certified Passivhaus Designer Tom Bell for his partner Sophie Bell managing director at the creative agency Toast and their family Isla (7yrs) and Ada (5yrs) and their dog Woody. Corner View House reimagines an orthodox 1960’s local authority house to deliver a contemporary family home in the Cotswolds, where ex-council properties are often overlooked and undervalued.

Buckle Street Studios / Grzywinski+Pons

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 21:00:00 +0000

Buckle Street Studios, located in the Aldgate East neighborhood of London, is a new thirteen-story building comprised of 103 compact apartments, a mezzanine co-working space, a coffee shop, meeting rooms, and a concept store. Grzywinski+Pons designed the building from the ground up as well as all of the interiors and much of the furniture. The urban infill site is part of a dense and varied assemblage of buildings in both scale and style.

WSECU Offices / SkB Architects

Luciana Pejić — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:00:00 +0000

The building is designed to take advantage of the unique properties of the small, yet prominent site,” according to Brian Collins-Friedrichs, principal-in-charge for the project. “Sensitivity to pedestrians—scale, texture, materials, transparency, and public amenities—drove the design. The goal was to create a building that feels a part of its neighborhood and that also provides a signature identity for WSECU.”

The Market Building Showroom / Holloway Li

Andreas Luco — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Holloway Li unveils an experience-led showroom and co-working space in Clerkenwell inspired by the lost forms of the Industrial Revolution for bathroom brand Coalbrook. Coalbrook takes its name from the town of Coalbrookdale in the Midlands, the site of the world’s first iron bridge and cradle of the Industrial Revolution. Holloway Li’s design evokes industrial forms and materiality: the chimneys which towered over the skylines of cities, the searing heat of the furnaces and engine rooms, and roughly chiselled quarries.

Shelter From The Storm / Holland Harvey Architects

Andreas Luco — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 02:00:00 +0000

Shelter from the Storm is a London based homeless shelter that provides 42 beds, freshly cooked food and holistic support to its guests to help them reintegrate back into society. Shelter From The Storm (SFTS) approached us with a challenging site, a disused supermarket to be transformed into a permanent home for the charity. The brief was to re-provide the shelter’s current facilities that would open during the daytime as a new community café to serve local residents. At the heart of this project are the people; in order to develop the design, it was fundamental to understand the mindset of a guest entering the shelter for the very first time.

Recycling Brick Constructions in the UK: 14 Building Restorations and Extensions

Paula Pintos — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 11:00:00 +0000

The use of brick plays a very important role in the architectural history of the United Kingdom. Construction techniques that involve brick and stone have been in constant progress. In fact, brick production improved over time, making the material the most popular one in the construction industry. From the 18th century onwards, brickwork was predominantly used in domestic and industrial architecture, but later on, it was introduced to the structure of warehouses and factories, as well as other various forms of infrastructure.

Recycling Tiles: 15 Examples of Repurposed Tiles in Walls, Facades, Flooring, and Furniture

Belén Maiztegui — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:35:00 +0000

Whether you're looking for an upgrade or to replace broken pieces for floors or walls, tiles are always an effective and readily available option for any project that you have in mind. With their relatively low production cost, tiles are rarely reused or recycled and, if they are, it's usually for their original function.

Love Walk House / Vine Architecture Studio

Andreas Luco — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:00:00 +0000

This project was for the refurbishment, reconfiguration and extension of a late Victorian coach house that complements the architectural spirit of the building. The building was converted into a residential dwelling thirty years ago and had been untouched ever since. It still echoed its late Victorian origins and function with stable doors and a first floor fireplace for the coachmen which we re-instated and repaired. It was important to maximise the living space with an open-plan ground floor and combining domestic functions creating a practical family home. New floorspace was created by converting the garage while also annexing a dark and unused corner of the courtyard and bringing it into the home. This new garden room extension employs a light touch with the continuation of the external floor and wall finishes resulting in unity with the courtyard.

New York's Interiors: Apartments, Penthouses and Lofts in the Big Apple

Mónica Arellano — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 04:00:00 +0000

One of the most important cities in the world –and the most populated in the United States of America–, New York is home to a great mix of cultures and history that has been shaped over the years, while art and architecture play a fundamental role in this development.

Broken Wharf London Apartment / Grzywinski+Pons

Andreas Luco — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 01:00:00 +0000

Locke at Broken Wharf is a 113 room hotel with a bar, restaurant, lounge and coworking space that we designed in London, England. This adaptive reuse project comprised an addition, complete gut renovation and comprehensive fit out of an existing seven story office building in the very heart of the British capital. While the incredible riverfront location of the site was a true gift, the disused commercial block that we were poised to transform was hardly predisposed towards a hospitality program.

Mile End Road Apartment Refurbishment / Vine Architecture Studio

Andreas Luco — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0000

The significant refurbishment and reconfiguration of an East London top floor apartment to re-invigorate the lost soul of the building. The existing apartment was in a state of disrepair accessed via a shared stairwell with offices below. The project ambition was to re-imagine the proportions, arrangement and flow of this cramped flat. We sought to rationalise the layout while retaining the intersecting load-bearing masonry walls that subdivided the space into equal quarters which, in turn, allowed us to define the four living functions of washing, dining, relaxing and sleeping. A level change and roof valley help demarcate these interconnected spaces and provide undulating height and rhythm which is designed to animate and unite the apartment.

Whitworth Manchester / Grzywinski+Pons

Martita Vial della Maggiora — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Whitworth Locke is a 160 room hotel with a bar, cafe, lounge and co-working space at the ground floor that we designed in Manchester, England. This adaptive reuse project was an addition, complete gut renovation and comprehensive fit out of a collection of three linked buildings on an island site in Central Manchester with elevations on Princess Street, Whitworth Street, and the Rochedale Canal.

35 Fireplaces that Spark Architectural Interest

María Francisca González — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

From the beginning of time, human beings have gathered around the fire. The first settlements and huts included in their interior a small bonfire to cook and maintain the heat of its inhabitants. This tradition has continued to the present, and chimneys and fireplaces have developed into the most varied designs and forms, providing possibilities both inside and outside a home.

To give you ideas for materials, structures, and spatial configurations, we present 35 remarkable meeting places around the fire.

Nobu Hotel Shoreditch / Ben Adams Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 07 May 2018 23:00:00 +0000

The client required a beautiful hotel that could accomodate a variety of unique rooms, from suites to luxury apartments, a gym, spa and state-of-the-art restaurant.

Union Wharf / Nicholas Szczepaniak Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Union Wharf is a mid terrace canal side property built within the footprint of a converted factory building. It is located along the Regents Canal in Islington, London. The aspiration of the project was to transform a dated, under-performing and compromised couple’s dwelling into a contemporary, energy efficient and spatially generous family home.

Eden Locke Edinburgh / Grzywinski+Pons

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 03:00:00 +0000

Eden Locke is a 72 room hotel with a cafe and bar on the ground floor that we designed in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. The project was a complete gut renovation and comprehensive fit out of an existing hybridized structure. We took an 18th Century Georgian mansion and its 20th Century extension down to their respective bones and created the hotel from there.

Treves & Hyde / Grzywinski+Pons

Sabrina Leiva — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 05:00:00 +0000

Treves & Hyde is a new restaurant and bar that we designed near Whitechapel in East London. The environment is also intended to accommodate both formal and casual occupation, staying open for interstitial use between meal service. It was also important to us and our client that the space could function without compromise from early morning through late night while maintaining its functional variability. So we provided ample and flexible seating, power points and areas geared equally towards both privacy and the happenstance run-ins increasingly found in modern workspaces or a cafe. We postulated that while guests might feel comfortable working or socializing in a space seemingly appropriate for dining, they could feel less at ease dining in an environment geared towards co-working. Accordingly the aesthetic typology is unabashedly that of a restaurant.