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Populous completes “best stadium in the world” for Tottenham Hotspur

April 3, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London by Populous

The long-awaited Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has opened in north London, featuring a retractable pitch that can host both Premier League football matches and American football. Built on the site of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club’s former home White Hart Lane, the 62,062-seater stadium designed by Populous will host its first Premier League match tonight. Along with being the home

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The Tulip is “inevitably controversial” says Norman Foster as tower approved

April 2, 2019 India Block 0
The Tulip by Foster + Partners has been approved by the City of London planning committee

Norman Foster says the The Tulip will become a “symbol in it’s own right” as the controversial 305.3-metre-high tourist attraction is approved by City of London. Foster + Partner’s design for The Tulip, a concrete shaft topped by glass viewing platforms complete with slides and rotating pods, has been waived through by the City of

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Cork walls and pink window frames characterise Nimtim Architects’ London house extension

April 2, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Cork House by Nimtim Architects

Nimtim Architects has added a extension clad in cork with contrasting pink windows to a Victorian terrace house in south London. The extension has a simple pitched roof and cork walls designed to complement the dwelling’s existing brickwork, while the window frames offer a bright counterpoint. Named Cork House, it was designed by Nimtim Architects in collaboration with

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Amin Taha creates distorted replica of 19th-century London terrace block

April 1, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
168 Upper Street in London by Amin Taha Architects

Amin Taha and his studio Groupwork’s block at 168 Upper Street is a misremembered copy of a lost four-storey pavilion, reconstructed in terracotta-coloured concrete to complete a terrace in London. The block was designed by Groupwork to be a deliberately distorted version of a previous building that was destroyed during the second world war. It contains a showroom

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The Tulip by Foster + Partners on track to be approved by City of London

March 26, 2019 India Block 0
Foster + Partner's The Tulip is on track to get planning permission

The City of London has said that Foster + Partners’ 305-metre-high The Tulip has “the potential to become an architectural icon”, in its planning report on the proposed tourist attraction. Planning officers praised the form of the spire in a 152-page report published by the City of London ahead of the planning committee meeting next week, reported Building Design. The

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Peter Barber Architects reinterprets Victorian back-to-back housing in London

March 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
McGrath Road by Peter Barber

Peter Barber Architects has arranged a block of 26 shared-ownership homes around a central courtyard in Stratford, London. The block on McGrath Road for the London Borough of Newham, is a reinterpretation of the Victorian back-to-back housing typology popular in England’s rapidly expanding industrial cities during the early 20th century. Peter Barber Architects’ housing at McGrath Road seeks to

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Threefold Architects divides up London office with forty-metre long “inhabited wall”

March 24, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of Pocket Living office, designed by Threefold Architects

A forty-metre long wall made from plywood and steel partitions the public from private spaces within this London office by Threefold Architects. The 6,900 square-foot-space in London’s Covent Garden area is occupied by housing developers Pocket Living. Laid out across the building’s unusually long floor plate, the office is split in two by a partition wall

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London’s first 3D zebra crossing encourages drivers to slow down

March 24, 2019 Gunseli Yalcinkaya 0
3D zebra crossing in Westminister, London

The first 3D zebra crossing in the UK has been painted on a road in north-west London in an effort to improve road safety in the area.  The striped crossing appears to be floating above the road, creating an optical illusion that is visible to oncoming drivers from both directions. The aim is for the crossing

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Will Alsop’s Neuron Pod education centre opens at Centre of the Cell

March 19, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Neuron Pod science education centre at Queen Mary University by Will Alsop for his practice All Design

An education centre shaped like a oversized neuron cell, designed by the late Will Alsop for his practice All Design, has opened at Centre of the Cell in Whitechapel, London. Named Neuron Pod, the free-standing science education space was designed by Alsop as a direct representation of a neuron cell – a specialised cell that transmits information in the

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Core Kensington pilates studio blends Mexican and Norwegian design

March 17, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Interiors of Core Kensington pilates studio, designed by Studio Wolter Navarro

This calming pilates studio in Kensington, London, by Studio Wolter Navarro is divided by a central timber wall inspired by Mexican celosías. London-based Studio Wolter Navarro was invited by the pilates studio’s owners – a Mexican-Norwegian couple – to design a new premises for their pilates studio. The space contains references to both Mexican and

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