The inspiring new creative arts building represents the first stage in the college’s masterplan. It is designed to express a distinct college identity while supporting internal connectivity at the building scale as well as the whole campus.
When the American law firm K&L Gates merged with a UK-based organization in 2005, the firm decided to increase its presence in London. For its new home, the firm chose the unbuilt One New Change, a mixed-use complex designed by Jean Nouvel and located across the street from St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Blacksheep, the award-winning international design agency, has unveiled its most recent project, the Qbic Hotel London City, which officially opened onthe 12th of November 2013.
The Mako Group (named after the Mako shark) is a forward-thinking and highly-independent global financial group, made up of five individual businesses, each of which specialises in a different aspect of sales, trading and investment management activities. EDGE was commissioned to create a new working environment for the Group that would express the company’s particular ethos, approach, values and aspirations; future-proof it in terms of additional growth; instil employee pride and provide a sense of unity for its ‘family of personalities’.
To create a clean & modern kitchen one that catered to modern living requirements. The space had to integrate a home office & laundry as well as an everyday eating area at least two. All this within its existing footprint. A challenge in the making!
CLIENT REQUIREMENTS:
Open plan
Home office & laundry integrated
Clean and fresh looking – a white kitchen??
Understated elegance
Good storage – use of space
Variable lighting plan – layered lighting including mood
Squire and Partners approached their commission to design a private house as a crafted building, sensitive to its Mayfair Conservation Area context but with a unique contemporary presence. Sited at a junction of streets and views, and being physically linked to a listed Georgian wall at the termination of Chesterfi eld Mews facing Curzon Street, the building responds to a variety of contexts and viewpoints.
Hackney Marshes is a unique place. With its origins in ancient woodland and medieval common land, it remains a vast open space. It is a place set apart from the city by a boundary of trees and by the River Lea. Yet it also connects communities, being an important green space in a densely-populated area. In addition, as the London home of amateur Sunday League football, it draws people from across the capital.
This mixed-use project is located fronting one of London’s attractive garden squares. Planning approval has been granted and construction will begin shortly. It contains three floors of residential units above commercial business space. The existing square, like many in London, has developed over the years with a large variety of different building types, scales and styles. It is this variety that gives the square its character and charm. Each period has provided its own example of what was, at the time, considered contemporary architecture. This design is intended to provide a well mannered and proud example of what our era can contribute to the rich architectural heritage of the area.
Shoreditch is no longer up and coming; it is already here, it is alive and it is buzzing. This part of London has been gradually transformed from an arty but gritty neighbourhood into one of the capital’s most desirable areas without having lost its charm.It was our aim to capture this special moment in time. Theexisting building sits in a conservation area and used to contain dysfunctional offices throughout. Part of the brief was to achieve a Change of Use for a duplex penthouse at the top.
Architects and designers SHH have transformed ZSL London Zoo’s main restaurant (The Terrace Restaurant),by remodelling and extending the 1920s building as part of a three-year, £4.6m project. The restaurant’s capacityhas nearly tripled as a result,from 240 to 700 covers (making it one of the UK’s largest day-visitor restaurants), whilst the building’s footprinthas also increased by almost 1,000 sq m, to includetwo expansive terraces and a hugely-increased mezzanine floor area.