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Istituto Marangoni London now accepting applications to its interior design masters course

July 3, 2019 Dezeen staff 0
Istituto Marangoni London calls for applicants to its Interior Design Masters course

Dezeen promotion: applications are now open to attend Istituto Marangoni’s MA Interior Design course at its London location, which starts in October 2019. Istituto Marangoni is looking for individuals who want to “challenge the world of interiors” to join its new 15-month design course, which has a focus on luxury interiors and new aesthetics. Located

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SOM completes double-cantilevered Manhattan Loft Gardens tower

July 2, 2019 India Block 0
SOM completes Manhattan Loft Gardens tower

Manhattan Loft Gardens is a 143-metre-high tower with two cantilevers designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill that overlooks London’s 2012 Olympic Games park. Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) engineered the concrete and steel frame so that it could accommodate three sky-gardens notched into the 42-storey building. Most of the floors of Manhattan Loft Gardens are

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World’s tallest shipping-container building to be built in London

July 2, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
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Patalab Architecture has won approval to build a nine-storey office block from shipping containers, which will be the world’s tallest building made from the modular structures. When built, the office block in Whitechapel, east London, will be 26-metres-high plus a lift overrun. This will make it taller than the Freitag Store in Zurich – the current tallest building made from

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Fatkin, Patrick McEvoy and PATRI create city parklets in central London

June 28, 2019 Rebecca Grove 0
The London Cablet by Fatkin

A decommissioned black cab and curb-side art gallery are among the mini parks designed by the London-based architects and designers as part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture. The three miniature landscaped spaces, designed by architecture studios Fatkin and PATRI and artist Patrick McEvoy, are dotted across the capital’s historic financial district. The city parklets

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Universal Design Studio and Map relocate to office that showcases their process

June 27, 2019 Augusta Pownall 0
Universal Design Studio Map Project Office office interior

Architecture and interior design practice Universal Design Studio has completed its own office interior and that of its sister company Map Project Office. The offices for both companies have relocated to the third-floor of a Clerkenwell block where they share an open-plan 1,020 square-metre space. Universal Design Studio and industrial design consultancy Map created the

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Architects of Air creates “sense of wonder” with inflatable architecture maze

June 25, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Architects of Air creates Daedalum inflatable architecture maze

The Daedalum maze, which consists of 19 interconnected egg-shaped domes made from translucent material, is the latest piece of inflatable architecture designed by Alan Parkinson, founder of Architects of Air. Named after Daedalus – the architect of the Labyrinth of Minos in Greek mythology – the blow-up maze was created to let people experience the

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DROO creates London apartment block with dramatic curved window bays

June 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
VI Castle Lane by DROO

Curved bow windows animate the facades of VI Castle Lane, a housing block in London designed by architecture studio DROO. The steel-framed masonry block is a high-end residential development in Westminster containing 28 apartments and three townhouses for developer Land Securities. Located in the Birdcage Walk Conservation Area, DROO designed the block to be sensitive to

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Financial Times returns to renovated Bracken House

June 24, 2019 India Block 0
Bracken House refurbishment by John Robertson Architects

John Robertson Architects has renovated Bracken House, in London, for the Financial Times’ return, carefully updating its Hopkins Architects-designed “Gothic high-tech” atrium. John Robertson Architects refurbished Bracken House for the Financial Times (FT), which is returning to its former office after three decades. Improvements to the block, which was the first post-war building to be listed in the UK,

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Cano Lasso completes child-friendly branch of Second Home in London Fields

June 24, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Second Home London Fields designed by Cano Lasso

A huge translucent panel punctuated by circular openings fronts the latest branch of co-working space Second Home in east London, which includes a nursery and outdoor play area. The shared office has been designed by Madrid-based studio Cano Lasso and takes note from the work of Frei Otto, a German architect renowned for creating tensile structures

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Roksanda Ilincic designs penthouse apartment inside King’s Cross’ Gasholders

June 20, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Roksanda Ilincic penthouse apartment in London's King's Cross

A geometric wall mural and a berry-toned bedroom appear inside this central London penthouse, which has been created by fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic. Reflecting her penchant for bold colours and shapes, Roksanda Ilincic says the three-level apartment “talks to my brand DNA and is the voice of my collections, but is still something different”. “It

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