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SKIMS Opens Its First UK Flagship With Glass-Walled Fitting Rooms on Regent Street
New York studio Rafael de Cárdenas has turned SKIMS‘ first UK flagship into a case for exposure, closing…
Deidra Hodgson Builds a Belgravia Grocer Where Cheese and Architecture Share the Same Shelf
Deidra Hodgson designs London Epicerie, a Belgravia food shop, around the idea that a grocery store can hold…
EBBA Architects Hand-Places Stone to Make Cup of Joy Look Decades Old
EBBA Architects builds Cup of Joy‘s Marylebone walls the way a mason might have built them a century…
Studio 163 Architects Threads a Concrete Floor from House to Garden at Falkland Road
A single line of polished concrete, threading from the living room straight through the garden doors, marks the…
Mosley Thorold Rebuilds a Victorian London Townhouse Around a Relocated Staircase
Mosley Thorold pulled a mispositioned staircase out from a cramped ground-floor study and made it the load-bearing narrative…
Architects Are Turning Forgotten Garages Into Full-Size Houses in the UK
A disused garage is quietly becoming one of the last realistic sites left to build a whole new…
Paper House Project Turns a Garage Plot Into a 97A Family Home
Greenview House turns a plot that shrank to just 33 square meters (355 square feet) after the walls…
Tuckey Design Studio Builds a Wiltshire House from Its Own Demolished Rubble
On the site of a former brickworks in rural Wiltshire, London-based architecture practice Tuckey Design Studio has built…
77: Concrete Turns a Basement Beneath The BoTree Hotel Into an Asymmetrical Club
Where most two-level clubs default to a theatre-style balcony overlooking a stage, Amsterdam-based studio Concrete gave 77, the…
Studio Folk Architects and Raskl Build a Barbican Greenhouse Topped with a Turnip Finial
A greenhouse built to be dismantled is the most honest design decision in The Veggery, the temporary pavilion…
YOD Group’s Flipdog in Shoreditch Pairs a Waone Mural With an 18th-Century Bar Relic
YOD Group has installed FlipDog in Shoreditch’s Imperial Hall not by reading East London’s bar aesthetic back to…
TYPE Merges Two Quarryman’s Cottages in Dorset Using Salvaged Stone, Joists, and Steel
TYPE didn’t renovate two derelict quarryman’s cottages in Dorset — they audited them, treating every stone, joist, and…
Wadhal Mirrors a 1930s Neighbor’s Outline in Ruislip, Then Subverts It With Red Brick and Glass
Wadhal didn’t fight London’s planning constraints on Wade House — they let the council write the rulebook, then…
Bangers and Mash by Alex Chinneck Is a Piano Collapsing Under Books — Carved From a Wood That Cannot Collapse
Alex Chinneck‘s Bangers and Mash, premiering today at London’s Treasure House Fair, is a life-sized grand pianocarved entirely…
Stylus Architects Buried a Family Home in Putney Heath and Filled Every Room with Natural Light
Green Lodge by Stylus Architects is almost entirely below ground, and yet every room in it receives natural…
The Broadgate Stone Did Not Disappear. Studio Weave Reassembled It as a Public Toilet in Maida Hill
Reclaimed granite from a demolished Broadgate office building now forms the load-bearing walls of the Maida Hill Public…
Delcy Morelos Fills the Barbican Sculpture Court With 30 Tonnes of Earth — Scented With Cinnamon and Cloves
Delcy Morelos planted 30 tonnes of spice-infused soil in the middle of London’s most uncompromising brutalist complex —…
LANZA atelier’s Serpentine Pavilion 2026 Revealed in First Photographs Ahead of Its Official Opening
The 25th Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public on 6 June in London’s Kensington Gardens, designed by Isabel…
Office S&M Folds Burnt Orange Through a Victorian Terrace to Outrun Its Own Darkness
Office S&M‘s Moon House — a Kensington renovation for two East London art collectors — doesn’t fight the…
O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Converts 1930s Canonbury House Into Low-Carbon Home and Studio
An uncompromising commitment to spatial restraint guides the transformation of a 1930s property by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects, converting…
Two Materials Redefining Contemporary UK Facade Design: Charred Timber and ThermoWood
In an era defined by circular construction, this study examines how natural thermal modification and ancient carbonization techniques…