UK studio NEX has won a competition to design a cafe outside the Saatchi Gallery in London's Chelsea with plans for a spiralling pavilion and rooftop garden. More »
Tag: London
Cadogan Cafe
Royal College of Art Student Union Cafe
by Weston Surman & Deane
Three Royal College of Art architecture graduates have used stripped scaffolding boards and reclaimed parquet flooring to create a wooden cafe at the school's Battersea campus in south London (+ slideshow). More »
Church Walk by David Mikhail
and Annalie Riches
Triangular roof lights step up the side of this terrace of houses built on a former industrial site in north London. More »
Dezeen Watch Store at Tracey Neuls:
20 November to 23 December 2012
Dezeen Watch Store has joined forces with footwear designer Tracey Neuls to present two watch store pop-ups this Christmas in Neuls' London stores - one in Marylebone in west London and another in Shoreditch in east London. More »
The Locker Room by
Belsize Architects
The locker room at the London School of Economics is now a village of cabinets with house-shaped profiles and bold graphics. More »
Archway Studios by
Undercurrent Architects
A home and studio for a photographer are contained inside this Corten steel bunker that Undercurrent Architects has squeezed beside and beneath the arch of a railway viaduct in south London. More »
Pop-up housing in garages
by Levitt Bernstein
Hackney studio Levitt Bernstein has won a housing design competition with a proposal to turn disused parking garages into tiny pop-up homes. More »
Maker of London cabs goes
into administration
News: the company that makes London's famous taxis, Manganese Bronze Holdings, is going into administration having failed to make a profit since 2007. More »
Hannibal Road Gardens
by Peter Barber Architects
This terrace of eight houses by Peter Barber Architects is clad with timber shingles to match the neighbouring fences and sheds of a housing estate in east London (+ slideshow). More »
Residential Extension by
Alison Brooks Architects
Alison Brooks Architects has extended a nineteenth century house in north London by adding two tapered volumes that project into the garden (+ slideshow). More »
Tower Wharf Cafe by
Tony Fretton Architects
This timber-clad cafe by architect Tony Fretton was designed as an upside-down interpretation of the neighbouring Tower of London (+ slideshow). More »
MVMNT Cafe by
Morag Myerscough
Designer Morag Myerscough used the tweets of a poet to create the bold graphics surrounding this temporary cafe in London. More »
Slip House by
Carl Turner Architects
Planks of translucent glass provide the walls for this house in south London designed by architect Carl Turner for himself and his partner (+ slideshow). More »
The Fudge Pop-Up Salon
by Zaha Hadid
London Design Festival: Zaha Hadid teamed up with hairdressing brand Fudge to create a pop-up hair salon in London last week. More »
East London Furniture
at DreamBags JaguarShoes
London Design Festival: designer-makers East London Furniture have temporarily fitted out the interior of London bar DreamBags JaguarShoes using nothing but scrap materials found on the local streets. More »

