The UK’s leading appliance care specialist Domestic & General was happy with the location of its existing Wimbledon head offices – in one of London’s leafiest outlying areas, conveniently close to the railway and tube station – but when the building’s lease renewal coincided with Covid-19 and lockdown, the opportunity arose for a full review of the company’s future workplace needs. Domestic & General recognised this might be a moment for wholesale change – but only if their team were likely to share in and feel ownership of that future vision.
Nissen Richards Studio has once again worked with client Historic Royal Palaces – this time on a new, temporary exhibition at London’s Kensington Palace. Life Through a Royal Lens explores the Royal Family through photography and brings together in one place some of the most iconic images of the Royal Family ever taken. The new exhibition is now open and runs until 30 October in Kensington Palace’s Pigott Galleries.
The new flagship store opened by Canali, the iconic Italian luxury brand of tailored menswear, is located on the corner of New Bond Street and Brooks Street, in the UK capital. Conceived by the strategic design studio Hangar Design Group, the interior design project brings together the aesthetic style of the Canali fashion house with refined simplicity and spatial and material quality, along with fine materials and references to the architecture of Milan.
The project focused on restyling the brand’s identity by introducing a more contemporary dimension to the display space dedicated to menswear while maintaining balance and formal simplicity.
We started with the paintings on the wall. The works are by John Prentice (the owner’s grandfather), an artist and engineer. Prentice has written about colour selection turning it into a language akin to a musical score in his thesis Colour Plane. He uses this theory of colour to tell stories.
A new timber-framed building, the Pavilion, which stands at the gateway to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, has opened its doors and is set to become a new landmark meeting place in east London. The Pavilion sits in the heart of Endeavour Square within Stratford City Business District’s (SCBD) mixed use neighbourhood, International Quarter London (IQL).
Enjoying unrivalled views across London and the 560 acres of greenspace at the Park, the Pavilion is located yards from East Bank, where an increasing cluster of world-leading universities, arts and cultural institutions are basing themselves alongside an array of commercial, technology, manufacturing and retail businesses. Stratford is fast transforming into one of London’s most exciting new destinations to visit, work, live and learn.
A much-loved garden was central to our design of this side and rear extension for a Victorian mid-terrace house in the Stroud Green Conservation Area of Haringey. The project for a couple, both in property development and one a keen gardener, arranges a sequence of living spaces around the garden and an internal courtyard that gives constant connection to greenery on the tight urban site.
Oak-clad beams spanning the breadth of the expansive kitchen and dining area set up a rhythm that draws the eye out towards the garden, which is accessed through sliding glass doors. Expressing these structural elements not only offers crucial extra head height that contributes to the generosity of the space within the extension, but became fundamental to our design.
‘West 5 Apartment’, Located in Notting Hill, London – W5 The client’s vision for the flat was very clear; “clean lines and bright space”.
The property was situated in a 1930’s block of flats in Notting Hill. It was divided into small spaces with original herringbone pine flooring, which was rotten, damaged and missing in some places.
The Diocese of London has realised its vision for the St Columba East London community, with Genesis: a new, wide-beam canal boat crowned with an innovative pop-up roof, designed by London-based architects Denizen Works. The barge, commissioned as a mobile assembly space, is moored on the River Lee Navigation alongside Here East at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where it will remain for three to five years before reaching other canalside communities.
Developed in close collaboration with Turks Shipyard and naval architect Tony Tucker, Genesis is conceived as a modern-day mission, developing links with growing communities living around the canal in East London over the next 25 years. Its mobility and flexibility of programme will ensure lasting benefits to the diverse neighbourhoods at key regeneration sites, which include Sweetwater, Eastwick and Hackney Wick. As well as serving as a space for a church, the barge is designed with a bespoke and adaptable interior to accommodate a wide range of community activities and services, including parent and toddler groups, pilates classes and art classes, interfaith celebrations, lunch and supper clubs, live music, employment training, support workshops and counselling.
Snowflake School is an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ certified school for children with Special Education Needs (SEN). It specifically focuses on pupils with severe autism. The school’s new site, located in a fully refurbished historic building in West-London, increases capacity by 30 new places.
Purpose built for the Salvation Army in the 1920s, philanthropy has returned to the building. The Patalab retrofit balances retention and re-use of existing building fabric. With a very specific spatial use and aesthetic it responses to the SEN school design brief. The completed conversion is the result of an intense eight-month design and construction process, creating a safe and welcoming learning environment for children with autism.
Bisushima is a new signature modern Japanese restaurant located at the top of the Page8 hotel near Trafalgar Square. The 6,000 sq ft restaurant features two extensive roof terraces, offering outdoor dining and spectacular views of London’s iconic skyline, Covent Garden and Trafalgar Square.
Restaurateur, Sergey Men, who also owns the World’s End Market on the King’s Road, has developed the 190-cover dining concept. Located on the hotel’s sixth floor, the restaurant will also provide F&B services for hotel guests and will include a Japanese breakfast for room service.
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