Norman Foster calls for design competition for northern House of Lords
Norman Foster has proposed having an architectural competition to design a new home for the UK parliament's upper chamber, if it is relocated from London to York. More
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Staircase swing and material details add flair to Highgate house
A swing suspended from a floating stair and a spiral staircase of polished plaster are some of the details included by architecture studio Cousins & Cousins in a London house. More
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Skinny house built in gap for Victorian coach house in London
The brick piers of an old Victorian coach house are incorporated in the facade of this skinny house in New Cross, London, designed by architecture studio Selencky Parsons. More
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Developer proposes turning London gas holder into alligator park
Developer Avanton has acquired a Grade II-listed Victorian gas holder in London and is exploring plans to turn it into a habitat for alligators as part of a housing development. More
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Foster + Partners launches appeal for rejected Tulip tower in London
Foster + Partners has launched an appeal for the 300-metre-high Tulip tower, which was blocked by London's mayor Sadiq Khan last year. More
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Interiors of London's Paradise restaurant nods to Sri Lanka's brutalist buildings
Cement, concrete and black steel merge to form the Brutalist-inspired interiors of this Sri Lankan restaurant in Soho, London, which Dan Preston Studio has dotted with tropical details. More
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Waldo Works pulls elements from post-war British interiors for Television Centre apartment
Design studio Waldo Works has completed the interiors of a penthouse apartment inside London's Television Centre, which takes cues from the "pure geometrics" of post-war British aesthetics. More
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Loyn & Co reveals proposal for carbon neutral neighbourhood in Wales
Loyn & Co has unveiled its design for Parc Hadau, a net-zero-carbon housing scheme in Wales that will be built from cross-laminated timber and powered by renewable energy. More
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Cristina Iglesias wins 2020 Royal Academy Architecture Prize
London's Royal Academy of Arts has named Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias the winner of its 2020 architecture prize for her urban sculptures in public spaces. More
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Don't Move, Improve! 2020 shortlist names London's best house extensions
An experimental brick extension, a house with fir-lined reading nooks and an apartment covered in 30,000 wooden blocks are three of the projects vying to be named London's best home improvement of 2020. More
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John Pawson designs his own minimalist rural retreat
Home Farm is John Pawson's self-designed minimalist second home in the Cotswolds, England, featuring three kitchens but no clutter. More
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Bell Phillips builds curved white-brick pavilion in London park
A sweeping, white-brick pavilion in Southwark Park in London by architecture studio Bell Phillips curves along the park's historic pathways. More
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Philosopher and architecture writer Roger Scruton dies aged 75
Roger Scruton, the British conservative thinker, author and architecture critic who was co-chair of Building Better, Building Beautiful, has passed away at the age of 75. More
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ACME reinterprets the traditional Kentish oast house as a modern family home
Five tile-clad towers make up this house in southeast England, designed by ACME as a modern interpretation of a hop-drying kiln. More
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Holland Harvey revamps Georgian townhouses to form London's Inhabit hotel
A row of heritage-listed townhouses in central London is now home to the Inhabit hotel, which Holland Harvey has designed to have relaxed, Scandi-inspired interiors. More
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Seven unique homes on Dungeness beach
Over the past decade a succession of architects have designed holiday homes among the fisherman's huts in the shadow of a nuclear power station on Dungeness beach, Kent. Here are seven of the most interesting. More
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Hemp is used on the inside and out of Cambridgeshire's Flat House
Practice Architecture worked alongside hemp farmers to erect this zero carbon home in Cambridgeshire, England, from pre-fabricated panels in just two days. More
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Hidden roof terrace added to North London townhouse
A hidden roof terrace and minimal wood-lined interiors are among the features that Cathie Curran and O'Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects have added in an overhaul of this north London house. More
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British album cover designer Vaughan Oliver dies at 62
Graphic designer Vaughan Oliver, who created album covers for bands including the Pixies, Cocteau Twins and The Breeders, has passed away at age 62. More
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Jamie Fobert, Peter Saville and Sadie Morgan recognised in Queen's New Year Honours list
Architect Jamie Fobert and graphic designer Peter Saville have received CBEs in the New Year Honours 2020, while designer Sadie Morgan and design advocate Hilary Cottam received OBEs and Forensic Architecture's Eyal Weizman has been made a MBE. More
