Before we started working on this Portland Place apartment, it had not been modernised for a long time and still had its very original layout – a separate dining room,…
YARD Architects first met Nathalie and Alex at a Don’t Move, Improve! consultation run by the NLA at their annual exhibition of the best new domestic residential architecture in London.…
With views overlooking Highbury Fields, our renovation of a two bedroomed-apartment on Highbury Terrace sought to extend this leafy outlook to as much of the flat as possible as well…
“Good design is something that fulfils its purpose in the most beautiful possible way.” Thousands of architects and interior designers are produced by the education system each year. It is,…
London Skyscrapers – “Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open…
As more and more people start to leave behind a suburban lifestyle to be part of the dense urban city, housing is under constant pressure to support more people. Living…
Cities are defined by a range of stimuli that affect the planning, growth and resilience of their urban fabric; this range of stimuli are determined by social, cultural and economic…
Around the 16th century, Britain set out trade companies in different parts of the world to explore the global markets. Within the next 2 centuries, these trade companies took over…
Space syntax is a science-based and human-centric approach, as well as a set of theories linking space and society, established in the 1970s by Prof Bill Hillier, Prof Julienne Hanson,…
American architecture studio, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), is set to build yet another skyscraper at 70 Gracechurch Street, London which the vertical planters which is intended as a new voice…
London is well known for its eclectic architectural style. It is home to buildings of the Roman period, some fine Gothic-influenced edifices, Baroque architecture, and the many modernly designed buildings…
Exhibiting architecture is not an easy exercise but it is an extremely important one. Architectural exhibitions across history have been significant in sharing design, theory and technology with fellow architects,…