Posts Tagged ‘London’
Sunday, June 16th, 2013
Article source: Simon Gill Architects
Gretel (a wire-haired miniature dachshund) found her existing conservatory cold and poorly related to her garden. This scheme therefore replaces the conservatory with a new extension that fully opens out to her grounds. Her requirement for the possibility of being fed tit-bits of grilled sausages led to the design including a barbeque, which becomes an extension of the side wall to the kitchen/ living area.
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Tags: London, Putney Bridge Approach
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
Article source: Belsize Architects
The house, a grade 2 listed building, set opposite Hampstead Heath was designed by Ewen Christian, an RIBA president and Gold medalist, and built in 1881. The brief was to return the 900 sqm four storey building, previously divided into four flats, into a single-family home and to add a new subterranean swimming pool to the side of the house and a garage for 3 cars over the pool.
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- Architects: Belsize Architects
- Project: Klippan House
- Location: Hampstead, London, UK
- Completion: 2010
Tags: Hampstead, London, UK
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Friday, May 31st, 2013
Article source: TG Studio
This modern terraced house on a private estate in North London has been completely transformed – from dark and soulless into an oasis of cool, calm and contemporary. Thomas Griem, Design Director of TG Studio, with architecture and design offices in London, has designed a beautiful home by entirely re-organising the internal layout to let natural light flow through every corner of the house.
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- Architects: TG Studio
- Project: House Refit in Highgate
- Location: Highgate, London
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Tags: Highgate, London
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Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Article source: Rousseau Design Ltd
Overlooking the Thames, the 1970s townhouse owned by lighting designer Ben Rousseau backs onto a small marina and is located where the London boat race finishes at Chiswick Quay. The design was relatively modern when Ben bought, but the four-storey property still needed a lot of work.
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- Architects: Rousseau Design Ltd
- Project: Interior/Lighting Designer Ben Rousseau’s London House
- Location: Chiswick, London
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Tags: Chiswick, London
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Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Article source: Haworth Tompkins Ltd
The London Library, founded by Thomas Carlyle in 1841, is the world’s largest independent lending library, with over 1,000,000 books and 8,000 members. Since its inception the Library has evolved into a complex amalgam of spaces that originate from a building sited on the north west corner of St James Square. The building has a discrete formal façade that provides a foil for a more aggregative interior. Over the years additional buildings have been annexed to house the ever-growing needs of the Library and its users, including a book stack built in 1922, and an extension to the north built in 1934; the Anstruther Wing housing rare books, was built at the rear of the 1920s book stack in 1995.
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- Architects: Haworth Tompkins Ltd
- Project: The London Library
- Location: St James Square, London
- Construction Cost: £18m (Phased), Phase 1: £3.1M, Phase 2: £6.9M
- Tender Date: Autumn 2004
- Contract Duration: Phase 1-12 Months, Phase 2- 23 Months
- Completion: Phase 1- September 2007, Phase 2-July 2010
- Gross Internal Area: 1987 m2
- Client: The London Library
- Contractor: Mace
- Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
- Services Engineer: Max Fordham LLP
- Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner and Theobald
- Planning Supervisor: Mace
- Lighting Design: ARUP
- Access Consultant: Babel
- Approved Inspector: Butler & Young
- Construction Manager: Mace
- Artist Collaboration: With Martin Creed
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Tags: London, St James Square
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Friday, May 24th, 2013
Article source: SHH Architects
Proposals for an elegant, new-build, black-fronted house in Mayfair’s Park Place, inspired by number ten Downing Street and designed by architects SHH, has now been granted planning permission by Westminster City Council, including change of use from Commercial B1 to Residential C3. The project is due to go on site in January 2014 for completion in the second half of 2015. The seven-storey property, located in the St James’s Conservation Area (where neighbouring buildings include The Economist Buildings, the Grade I-listed Brooks’ Club, the Grade-I listed Royal Overseas League and the Embassy of Equatorial Guinea), has been designed as a 21st-century interpretation of a traditional Mayfair home.
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- Architects: SHH Architects
- Project: Park Place
- Location: Mayfair, London, England, UK
Tags: England, London, UK
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Article source: TG Studio
TG-Studio has transformed this 3 bed room penthouse located in the grade 1 listed St Pancras chambers. The apartment is one of three penthouses in the 52 unit development by the Manhattan loft corporation. It covers the top three floors of the west tower of this famous London landmark.
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- Architects: TG Studio
- Project: St Pancras Penthouse Apartment
- Location: London, United Kingdom
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Tags: London, United Kingdom
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Sunday, April 21st, 2013
Article source: Haworth Tompkins Architects
Haworth Tompkins announces the completion of The Shed, a temporary venue for the National Theatre on London’s South Bank. The Shed will give the NT a third auditorium while the Cottesloe is closed for a year during the NT Future redevelopment, also designed by Haworth Tompkins. The artistic programme for The Shed, recently announced by the Director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, pushes creative boundaries, giving the NT the opportunity to explore new ways of making theater.
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- Architects: Haworth Tompkins Architects
- Project: The Shed
- Location: South Bank, London, UK
- Photography: Helene Binet, Philip Vile
- Team: Steve Tompkins, Paddy Dillon, Shane McCamley
- Client: National Theatre
- Theatre Consultant: Charcoalblue LLP
- Structural Engineer: Flint & Neill Ltd
- Services Engineer: Ingleton Wood LLP
- Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald LLP
- Acoustic Consultant: Arup Acoustics
- Access Consultant: All Clear Designs Ltd
- Fire consultant: LWF
- Contractor: Rise Contracts Ltd
- Start Date: September 2012
- Completion Date: February 2013
- Construction Cost: £1.2m
- Auditorium Dimensions: 14.8m x 18.3m x 8.7m (h) (16.4m high including chimneys)
- Gross Internal Area: 628m2
Tags: London, UK
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Saturday, April 13th, 2013
Article source: Maria Mingallon
An optimal natural construction, built by a complex patterning process, developed through evolution as a response to force flows and material organization.
Being the dragonfly wing a highly dynamic structure, vibration studies were necessary to obtain realistic deformation patterns and thus, understand its structural behaviour. Ten vibration modes were extracted from the modal analysis performed in GSA. Our eyes have difficulties distinguishing the third, fourth and fifth vibration modes (which occur almost simultaneously), due to the high frequencies exhibited. In our case, slow motion pictures featuring the real flight of the dragonfly, allowed us to identify up to the third mode of vibration by comparison with that calculated in the analysis.
 Image courtesy Maria Mingallon & Sakthivel Ramaswamy
Tags: London, UK
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
Article source: Simone de Gale Architects
This project demonstrated the transition of space over a period of 30 years within the area of London Fields to Liverpool Street from a disused rough and un-inhabitable area into a well defined architectural establishment.
Fine plaster formed a conceptual arch representing the adhoc and then planned architectural proposals; an unwound timber section represented time. Entwining the two brought the concept together.
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- Architects: Simone de Gale Architects
- Project: Unravelling Geometry
- Location: London, UK
- Software used: Developed using AutoCAD Architecture software and Adobe Photoshop for the visuals
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Tags: London, UK
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