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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…
A-nrd Converts 19th-Century Glasgow Building Into “Artist’s Residence” Hotel
Located on Glasgow’s historic Bath Street, Arthouse Glasgow is a 76-key lifestyle hotel designed by the London-based studio…
Banksy Installs “Anonymous Flag-Bearer” in London’s Waterloo Place
Banksy’s “Anonymous Flag-Bearer” has surfaced in London’s Waterloo Place, claiming a vacant stone pedestal with a faceless, bronze…
Pablo Sanchez Lopez Uses Eucalyptus and Timber to Update a 1970s London Victorian Terraced House
Architect Pablo Sanchez Lopez has overhauled a Victorian terraced house in Walthamstow, London, stripping away a restrictive 1970s…
O’Donnell + Tuomey Draws on Balenciaga’s Pattern Cutting for V&a East Museum
V&A East Museum arrives as a monumental addition to London’s cultural landscape, marking the completion of the ambitious…
Gonzalez Haase AAS Subverts Automotive Tropes to Frame Ferrari’s London Flagship as a Clinical Cultural Platform
In Mayfair, the new Ferrari flagship by Gonzalez Haase AAS trassects the boundary between high-performance engineering and spatial…
Carbon-Sequestering Cork Extension by Office S&M Tops Victorian Terrace in London
Office S&M Architects has transformed a weathered Victorian terrace in Walthamstow into Cork Loft, a carbon-sequestering vertical extension…
Luke Jerram Brings “Extraordinarily Detailed” Sun to Earth With Helios Installation
British artist Luke Jerram continues his celestial exploration with Helios, a seven-meter-diameter touring installation that brings the Sun’s…
V&A Opens First UK Exhibition Dedicated to the “Fearless Imagination” of Maison Schiaparelli
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London hosts “Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art,” the first major UK retrospective dedicated…
Studio Dera Uses Travertine and Concrete to Extend the London Home Where Mozart Composed His First Symphony
UK practice Studio DERA has reimagined a historic Grade II listed residence in London’s Belgravia, introducing a subterranean…
Architecture for London and Hamish Vincent Design Craft a “Modern Homage” to Georgian Heritage
This Neo-Georgian terrace house in London’s Canonbury Conservation Area undergoes a transformative refurbishment and extension by Hamish Vincent…
Archi-Tectonics Tops London Terrace With Faceted Zinc “Solar House”
Located in a dense pocket of London, United Kingdom, the London Solar House by NYC-based Archi-Tectonics reimagines the…
Goldstein Heather Adds “Accordion-Form” Brick Extension to West London Home
The West London House, a four-story lateral extension and profound transformation of a Victorian end-of-terrace home in Stamford…
David Hockney Brings 100-Metre Digital Frieze to Serpentine North
David Hockney’s latest exhibition at Serpentine North, titled “A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting,”…