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Architects: Benedetti Architects
- Area: 2465 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: panoramah!®, 3V Architectural Hardware, AJK, Armaria, Artisan of Devizes, +27
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Professionals: Price & Myers, Harley Haddow, DP9, LAPD, Charcoal Blue, +3
London: The Latest Architecture and News
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Headquarters / Benedetti Architects
How Are Co-Living Spaces in London Offering Solutions for Rising Urban Density and Real Estate?
Co-living is a residential community living model, referring to a modern form of group housing that has significantly transformed London life and the UK as a whole. The notion of co-living has even more so been popularized by the rise of housing startups, with many offering affordable housing in homes and apartments alike shared by a handful of adult housemates.
Installations at the 2022 London Design Festival Explore Materiality, Movement and Light
The London Design Festival is an annual event that brings together designers, practitioners, retailers, and educators from across the globe. This year’s program of events, exhibitions, and installations invites creative leaders to exchange ideas and solutions for some of the most pressing issues of our time, like climate change, pollution, and resource depletion. The festival includes the Landmarks Projects. As part of this initiative, Rotterdam-based designer Sabine Marcelis has created “Swivel”, an outdoor installation in central London. Other installations like Sony Design’s “Into Sight” pavilion or Sou Fujimoto’s “Medusa” exhibition explore visual and sensorial effects through physical and virtual mediums.
Buckle Street Studios / Grzywinski+Pons
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Architects: Grzywinski+Pons
- Area: 3530 m²
- Year: 2022
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Professionals: Manhire Associates, Applied Energy
Compton & Edrich Stands Lord’s Cricket Ground / WilkinsonEyre
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Architects: WilkinsonEyre
- Area: 11500 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: AGROB BUCHTAL, Trimo, Bluecube, Constructional Timber, FP McCann, +6
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Professionals: Buro Happold, ISG, DP9, Gardiner & Theobald, KCCJ, +3
Ziggurat and Rhomboid Buildings London Design District / Mole Architects
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Architects: Mole Architects
- Year: 2022
“Functionalism, Rationalism, and Conceptualism Are Not Enough”: In Conversation with Alison Brooks
London-based architect Alison Brooks was born and grew up in Canada and studied architecture at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. Upon graduation in 1988, she left for London where after working with designer Ron Arad for seven years she started Alison Brooks Architects in 1996. Her most representative works include the Stirling Prize-winning Accordia Brass Building in Cambridge, Exeter College Cohen Quad in Oxford, the Smile Pavilion for the 2016 London Design Festival, and several expressive single-family residences in London: VXO House, Fold House, Lens House, Mesh House, and Windward House.
Among the studio’s current projects are The Passages in Surrey, Canada; Homerton College in Cambridge, and other residential and cultural projects throughout Britain and in North America. This month the architects’ design was shortlisted for the LSE Firoz Lalji Global Hub and Institute for Africa in London. Together with Nigerian practice Studio Contra, the ABA-led team was one of six finalists chosen from 190 international submissions.
Earthrise Studio / Studio McW
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Architects: Studio McW
- Area: 101 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Clayworks, Karven Roest , Piet Boon , Tala, Watermark Collection
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Professionals: Sunbeam Group, Hexagon Construction Ltd
The Lexi Cinema & Lexi Hub / RISE Design Studio
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Architects: RISE Design Studio
- Area: 260 m²
- Year: 2022
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Manufacturers: Barco, Dulux, EGE, Harvey Maria , London Reclaimed Brick Merchants , +3
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Professionals: Omnex Pro Film, RISE Design Studio, Enhabit
Apple Brompton Road / Foster + Partners
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Architects: Foster + Partners
- Year: 2022
Henrietta House / MoreySmith
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Architects: MoreySmith
- Area: 144500 ft²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Kvadrat Soft Cells, Boon Edam, GD Stones, Grestec, Havwoods, +7
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Professionals: The Morton Partnership, Troup Bywaters + Anders, Faithdean PLC
Industrial Loft / Francesco Meneghello
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Architects: Francesco Meneghello
- Area: 550 m²
- Year: 2022
RIBA Announces Six Shortlisted Projects for the 2022 Stirling Prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings competing for the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize. Marking its 26th edition, the award honors the United Kingdom’s best new building, and is considered the country's highest accolade in architecture. The six projects range between educational, cultural, and residential buildings, all designed for sustained community benefits that "demonstrate the power of exceptional architecture to enhance lives". The winner of the 2022 Stirling Prize will be announced on October 13th, 2022 at RIBA's 66 Portland Place in London.
Penfold Treehouse / De Matos Ryan
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Architects: De Matos Ryan
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: Garnica Plywood, Timber Workshop
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Professionals: Price & Myers, Redline Building Services Limited, Timber Workshop Limited
Fandangoe Skip Ice Cream Kiosk / CAUKIN Studio + Fandangoe Kid + SKIP Gallery
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Architects: CAUKIN Studio, Fandangoe Kid, SKIP Gallery
- Area: 5 m²
- Year: 2022
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Professionals: Centrespace Design
Grimshaw Launches a Charitable Foundation Focused on Creative Education
The Grimshaw Foundation is a charitable organization aiming to bring access to creative learning tools to a diverse range of young people. The organization was established by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, in partnership with the partners of international architecture practice Grimshaw. The central purpose is to bring together a globally linked educational community of artists, architects, and designers to support and empower young people. It hopes to reach them at the stage of navigating their career options and help them discover the varied options and opportunities that the creative industry can offer. The Foundation officially launched on 6 July 2022 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
In London, a Venturi-Scott Brown Masterpiece Is Threatened
This article was originally published on Common Edge.
Despite its dazzling collection of masterpieces, London’s National Gallery has been cursed with a series of ill-advised architectural schemes over its two-century existence. Only once have its leaders made a truly inspired and visionary choice: in the mid-1980s, the gallery held a competition, won by Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown (VRSB) of Philadelphia, to build a special collections building.
The addition was constructed from 1988 to 1991, using funds donated by the Sainsbury family as a gift to the nation and was immediately hailed as one of the finest buildings of its type erected in the 20th century. It has remained popular with Londoners and has served well as an expansion of William Wilkins’s undistinguished classical building ever since. Experts on the work of Robert Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott Brown consider it one of their masterpieces. Apparently, the National Gallery has a different opinion.