T&V Architects has designed the interior of an apartment in South Kensington, London, adopting eco-friendly strategies and natural materials.
The three-bedroom flat is located at walking distance from the Gloucester Road Station, occupying the first floor of a terraced house.
“The goal was to design a contemporary space where the client could feel comfortable and contemplate his sculptures and paintings”, said architect Paola Tuosto.
Founded in 2000, Black Swan is a global financial advisory firm based in the UK.
Black Swan tasked Direct Painting Group with the Cat B fit-out of a three-floor workplace, following their relocation from their former office in London. Black Swan wanted a workspace that combined both domestic design elements and modern features, creating an inviting yet bold and timeless work environment. Scandinavian design was the enabling principle for the fit-out, with other soothing finishes complimenting and completing the space.
This project is many things, but boring is certainly not one of them. As the name suggests, it certainly has a split personality but also contains an avalanche of details. There is the original Edwardian part which sits in stark contrast with the contemporary volume at the back. This approach manages to address the different desires of the two clients: There are the historical, slightly romantic rooms in the old house counterbalanced by the contemporary, minimal but warm box at the back.
The enabling principle of the fit-out was simple; quality. Founded in 1930, Dodge & Fox is an investment management company with a lengthy heritage. Aligned with the businesses’ traditional values, we combined high-quality craftsmanship with clean architectural lines to achieve a sophisticated finish.
A refurbishment and extension of a family home in Leytonstone. The existing long narrow kitchen has been radically transformed by partially extending out to the side to create a new dining space and widen views onto the garden.
A rich palette of colour and materials have been used throughout the home that include a yellow lounge, a terrazzo showroom and a family bathroom with palm print wallpaper.
We’ve recently completed a co-working office development project in Stratford, London for our client us&co which features what we think to be a unique one-off helical pre-cast concrete staircase. The stairs travel from ground to first floor level, involves 20 reinforced concrete treads, each one cast individually from a bespoke fibreglass mould, and then laid above each other.
In order to support the staircase during construction, each tread was propped up with timber formwork, and as the stairs went up, three tensile steel cables were fed through each tread, all the way from base to top, and thereafter tied to steel structure at the very top & bottom and then post – tensioned (tightened up) in order to pull all the treads together. Then the formwork was removed and the stairs remain self-supporting.
Global typeface giant, Monotype, required an agile London headquarters space to meet its current and future needs. This new studio provides a contemporary environment that reflects their position at the forefront of digital technology design.
Material Works were commissioned to design a a small addition to this victorian terraced house in Stoke Newington, London. With a limited budget and limited space for building in, the challenge was to transform the existing dark and cramped kitchen space into a bright and open space that would cater to the needs of a growing family. To achieve this an extensive roof light was installed above the new addition and the rear wall opened up with large sliding doors above a new window seat. A careful coordination of the restricted space allowed for the inclusion of a kitchen island while still leaving space for a dining table. The robust polished concrete floor was offset by the use of natural oak joists to support the roof-light and form the window seat, creating an aesthetic that was at once both contemporary, practical and welcoming.
Having moved from a substantial loft apartment to a Victorian terrace, the clients were keen to recapture the open sense of space and light their former home had offered. The brief called for an open space that could be adapted for either entertaining, dining or relaxing simply by moving loose furniture. To achieve this, the kitchen was moved back into the centre of the house, leaving the new room free of fixed joinery except for a single run of low level solid oak units that provide storage and a shelf for artworks. The inclusion of full height sliding glass doors and a minimally framed roof-light provide an abundance of natural day-light and visual connections to the rear garden. The structural steel was left exposed to provide a distinct design motif as well as maximising the ceiling heights and sense of space.
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