Recycled plastic tiles that mimic natural slate cloak a dormer extension at this terraced home in London, which has been updated and expanded by local practice YN Studio. More about YN Studio extends London home around light-filled stairwell
Creative agency Steep Learning Group wanted to emulate "a giant doughnut outside a doughnut shop" when creating a playful 2.5-metre-tall sculpture of a pair of shorts to act as the mascot for clothing brand Gramicci's east London store. More about Gramicci store in east London revolves around jumbo pair of stripy shorts
Designer Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad and architect Farrokh Aman drew on their Iranian heritage when creating the playful interior for a cafe in east London that evokes traditional Middle Eastern bistros. More about Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad and Farrokh Aman bring "sense of home" to Iranian-Iraqi cafe
Hackney restaurant and listening bar Bambi has been doubled in size with a revamped interior and a custom-made stainless-steel-and-wood wall cabinet for vinyl records. More about Nicola Weetch designs London Fields record bar "to feel lived-in"
London architecture studio Material Works has updated a Victorian home in Hackney, extending into its garden with a large double-height bay window framed with natural stone. More about Material Works extends Hackney home into an oversized bay window
A double-gabled form that resembles the merging of two homes defines this red house in Hackney, designed by local studio Graeme Williamson Architects. More about Graeme Williamson Architects creates Twin House for blended family in London
London firms Wet Studio and Studio Popelo put a contemporary spin on traditional Spanish aesthetics when designing La Camionera, a lesbian bar in Hackney. More about Lesbian bar La Camionera "reinterprets the traditional Mediterranean bar"
A concrete dining room cast in situ and framed by red steelwork forms the heart of this Hackney home, remodelled and extended by London studio Archmongers. More about Archmongers revamps 1970s London home with rough concrete and red steel
Architectural studio Bindloss Dawes has added an expressed concrete and timber extension to a dilapidated terraced house Hackney, London. More about Bindloss Dawes adds exposed concrete and brick extension to London terrace
A cat climbing frame and a cosy window seat are among the features of this colourful extension, added to Park House in London by local studio Office S&M. More about Office S&M extends Hackney house for "both human and feline residents"
We continue our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series with a look at Waugh Thistleton Architects' Murray Grove, "the original timber tower". More about Waugh Thistleton Architects' Murray Grove was the most significant building of 2009
Architecture studio Khan Bonshek's founders have remodelled their own terraced house in east London around a central brick wall, carrying out the majority of the work themselves. More about Khan Bonshek arranges east London home around brick "spine wall"
The London School of Architecture has created the timber Dalston Pavilion in London as part of this year's London Festival of Architecture. More about London School of Architecture creates A-frame pavilion as a "platform for local outreach"
Tropical modernism informed the plaster finishes of this extension in Hackney, London, which has been completed by local architecture studio Sonn. More about Sonn uses rough plaster finishes for "monolithic and sculptural" London extension
Portholes and semi-circular motifs characterise this colourful renovation and extension of a Victorian terrace house in Hackney, London, by architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. More about Gundry & Ducker revamps Victorian terrace to feature "different characters within a single house"
London studio Henley Halebrown has completed a sensitive remodel of a 19th-century industrial terrace into a small campus of creative workspaces in Hackney, London. More about Henley Halebrown turns Victorian industrial terrace into creative studios in Hackney
A steel frame clad with aluminium and polycarbonate panels was designed to add an industrial feel to Bradbury Works, a retail and office building in Dalston, London, by local studio YN Studio. More about YN Studio wraps Dalston workspaces with translucent "X-ray" facade
Graphic shapes and bold hues define the living spaces of this mid-terrace Edwardian home in east London, overhauled by architecture studio Office S&M. More about Office S&M uses colour and geometry to create Graphic House in London
The second case study in our Timber Revolution series is Murray Grove, a London housing tower by Waugh Thistleton that has a superstructure built almost entirely from cross-laminated timber. More about Murray Grove housing by Waugh Thistleton kickstarted "tall-timber movement"
Architecture practice Office S&M has completed its own office inside a former paint-making workshop in Hackney, London. More about Office S&M unveils its own colourful office with plastic-bottle-wall enclosed meeting room