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DGN Studio uses sandstone bricks in north London home extension

December 1, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

Stone bricks form the multi-textural walls of this family home extension in London’s Highbury area, designed by DGN Studio in collaboration with creative director Sarah Izod. Titled Stone and Steel House, the project involved updating the three-storey townhouse with a new kitchen and dining room at the rear and a loft extension upstairs. The design

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Exposed blockwork walls introduce “earthy tone” to THISS Studio’s Butterfield extension

November 30, 2025 Alyn Griffiths 0

The walls of this extension to a post-war terraced house in north London were made from interlocking clay blocks that local firm THISS Studio left exposed to create a warm and textural finish. THISS Studio was asked to design a rear extension for the house, located near Butterfield Green in Stoke Newington, and to reconfigure

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Haworth Tompkins clads The Old Vic extension in recycled spotlights

November 29, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Haworth Tompkins has extended The Old Vic in London, giving the historic theatre a new home for its outreach programme that is fronted by a colourful facade of recycled spotlights. Named Backstage, the 1,250-square-metre extension to the Grade II*-listed cultural landmark replaces a former restaurant on Waterloo Road with spaces dedicated to The

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EBBA founder’s all-timber London apartment celebrates “alive and imperfect” wood

November 27, 2025 Jane Englefield 0

EBBA Architects founder Benni Allan has renovated his own London apartment in a former tea factory, which features walls, floors, furniture and even speakers crafted from Douglas fir. Located on the top floor of a canalside plot in east London, Living with Timber is the self-designed home of Allan, who runs the nearby studio EBBA.

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Mentze Ottenstein creates space for “calm discovery” at Tekla store in London

November 24, 2025 Clara Finnigan 0

A calming and natural material palette of clay plaster, cherry wood and wool characterise Danish homeware brand Tekla’s store in London. Located on Marylebone High Street in west London, the space was designed by architect duo Mathias Mentze and Alexander Ottenstein of Mentze Ottenstein. Having previously designed the brand’s Modern Romance exhibition at this year’s

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Stanton Williams creates faceted retirement complex in Hampstead

November 13, 2025 Rheanna Hopkins 0

A faceted form wrapped in bricks characterises The Oren, a retirement complex overlooking Hampstead Heath in London, completed by local architecture studio Stanton Williams. Spanning four interconnected volumes, the structure was configured by Stanton Williams to frame views over communal gardens and the surrounding woodland landscape. “The Oren was developed as four distinct but connected

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Design Museum pushes for stone construction in the UK with Stone Demonstrator

November 11, 2025 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Stone makes up the facade, frame, foundations and floor slabs in the Stone Demonstrator, a project by London’s Design Museum aimed at getting the British construction industry to embrace the “ultra-low-carbon” material. A traditional but these days sometimes overlooked structural material, stone is given centre stage in the Stone Demonstrator, a 1:1 scale prototype of

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Viral video captures London’s Olympic velodrome “reflecting fireworks as farts”

November 11, 2025 Amy Peacock 0

A video of London’s Olympic velodrome, designed by local studio Hopkins Architects, has gone viral on social media for echoing fart-like sounds while fireworks exploded nearby. Passerby Matt McClafferty captured the footage of the unusual sounds coming from the velodrome, now named Lee Valley VeloPark, last Thursday as firework displays went off in celebration of Bonfire

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Nike and Palace Skateboards unveil transforming skatepark in Victorian public bathhouse

November 4, 2025 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio Jam has designed the Manor Place sports hub in south London for brands Nike and Palace Skateboards, which includes a skatepark that can be transformed into a football pitch. Set to open on November 11, the sports hub by Jam occupies a 19th-century bathhouse and swimming pool complex near Elephant and Castle. The

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Crafty past of London’s East End informs Norton Folgate offices

October 29, 2025 Natasha Levy 0

Universal Design Studio has brought in weavers, enamelers, and other creative makers to decorate workspaces within the Norton Folgate development in east London’s Spitalfields neighbourhood. Norton Folgate is a 330,000 square foot mixed-use site comprising a total of six buildings, three of which have interiors curated by Universal Design Studio: 16 Blossom Street, Nicholls &

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