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One of PEEK Architecture's recent commissions, is a rear and side return in Kensal Green, London. The brief was to create side return in Kensal Green, London. The brief was to create an open plan living space to house a kitchen, dining area and space for the children to play, while also having a link with the garden. The client is a member of the Green Building council, so it was important for them, that the build was as ecological and sensitive as possible.

The rear facade now includes triple glazed black framed The rear facade now includes triple glazed black framed bi-fold doors with a flush threshold, and by using the same tiles inside and out, this brings the outside in. The concrete effect tiles used, were large format porcelain tiles, 'Conproj' in grey, from West London supplier, European Heritage (www.europeanheritage.co.uk).

Georgina Georgina Turvey of PEEK Architecture states ''these thin tiles are excellent at conducting the under floor heating. Although more expensive than radiators for installation, under floor heating was proposed as its uses less energy to heat a large open plan space like this.''

A picture window is surrounded by a thick frame, which creates a window seat and a cover from the rain when open. The dining area is defined by a corner storage bench, painted in a light grey colour from Earthborn Paints ((www.earthbornpaints.co.uk) which is an organic and natural paint. This bench runs into the window seat, giving views of the garden when dining.

A simple white design for the kitchen, was chosen from Ikea, as they use wood chip in their carcass's as it is more eco-friendly. A large island unit creates a sociable cooking area, with a breakfast creates a sociable cooking area, with a breakfast bar to one side. Stone was wanted round the hob, but timber elsewhere as its nicer to sit at and less noisy when placing crockery down. The stone chosen was a recycled composite product from Touch Stone Worktops, called 'Eco Moss' by Cosentino (www.touchstoneworktops.com) which reuses ground up aggregate to create which reuses ground up aggregate to create different finishes. The one chosen resembles concrete, but without the maintenance and staining concrete goes through. Turvey sourced the timber area of the island from local reclamation and design emporium Retrovius, which is made from upcycled old lab desks cleared out from a school. Even the old gas tap holes are left to retain its story. The worktops 'fold down' to one end, so when the kitchen is viewed from the garden, the cupboard sides are timber and composite stone, which looks better than a white composite stone, which looks better than a white joinery side panel.

The shelves above the sink area, are off the shelf shelving units which are then flipped upside down and simply screwed to the wall. Blue tiles line the whole wall above the sink and give this area a rich feel while displaying objects on the shelves, and to each side is an industrial style light the 'Mullan Apoch Pulley Cage Wall Light' from Made to Last ((www.made-to-last.co.uk) complete with filament bulbs, which provide low level ambient lighting at night time.

The result creates a successful, mutli functional space. The need to keep an eco friendly nature to all elements specified, makes for some unexpected finishes which have made the project all the more finishes which have made the project all the more rich and interesting.

(All photos by Alex Maguire)

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The consummate expert in luxury Architecture and Design, Eric Carlson has brought to fruition countless projects across the globe from museums, office headquarters, private residences, and of course flagship stores for the worlds pre-eminent brands. Among the distinguished architectural gems created by Eric’s Paris based studio CARBONDALE, included the Champs Elysees Maison for Louis for Louis Vuitton in Paris, the headquarters for Escada in Munich, and flagships for Tag Heuer, Tiffany & Co., H. Stern, and most recently for Longchamp on the prestigious New Bond street in London.

The Longchamp New Bond street building and store design is the latest in a series of Art & Architecture collaborations conducted by CARBONDALE with their unique approach of coalescing artistic ideas with the coalescing artistic ideas with the architectural concepts to create an amalgamation with the brand image and a cohesive customer experience. For the New Bond street project the New York based Artist Maya Hayuk, was selected by CARBONDALE because her by CARBONDALE because her palette of vibrant colors and intricately rich abstract patterns woven together at an architectural scale.

Inspired by Longchamp’s signature “pliage” folded bag which has sold more than 16 million since 1993, CARBONDALE has lined the 280 sqm three level boutique interior with architectural folding screens of embossed leather, engraved limestone, white lacquer, ebony, walnut and elm wood marquetry each corresponding to the different product categories of corresponding to the different product categories of leathergoods, clothing and luggage. Each elongated floor culminates on Maya Hayuk’s 12-meter high by 5-meter wide monumental kaleidoscope of diagonal layers of colors. The mural remains distinctive as a work of art yet integrates into the spatial experience of each level from near and far while discreetly re-interpreting both the color spectrum of the “pliage re-interpreting both the color spectrum of the “pliage bag” and Longchamp’s traditional “LM crisscross” motif.

CARBONDALE has cultivated their sophisticated methods of fusing Art & Architecture in numerous projects for Longchamp as well as for other Clients in projects for Longchamp as well as for other Clients in working with a variety of Artists including Carlos Cruz-Diez, Lie Wei, Maya Hayuk, Ubersee, James Turrell, Olafur Eliasson, Vanessa Beecroft as well as pieces by Eric Carlson.

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A team of architects led by Chapman Taylor has been given the go-ahead to double the size of Salford’s MediaCity UK.

The second stage of the scheme features 10 new buildings, of which almost three quarters are earmarked for private rented sector (PRS) housing.

Chapman Taylor is working with six other firms, including Sheppard Robson, AHR Architects, Hodder including Sheppard Robson, AHR Architects, Hodder + Partners and Jeffrey Bell Architects, on the proposed £1 billion expansion of the waterfront complex.

The first phase of MediaCity UK – also delivered by ‘masterplan guardian’ Chapman Taylor – was completed six years ago and houses 250 businesses completed six years ago and houses 250 businesses including the BBC, ITV and Ericsson.

Backed by the Peel Group with Legal and General Capital, the development also includes multi-storey parking, a bicycle hub and a pedestrian promenade running through the site.

Chapman Chapman Taylor director Tim Partington said the massive scheme would help ‘boost the Northern

Powerhouse’, adding: ‘MediaCityUK is already a leading international hub for the creative and digital sectors, a centre of learning and a visitor destination.

’Phase two will bring a new residential community supported by high-quality public realm, leisure and retail facilities, ensuring that the development is a sustainable urban neighbourhood and an exemplar sustainable urban neighbourhood and an exemplar for the 21st century.’

As well as the new homes, the plans feature a ‘crystalline’ 17-storey office tower designed by Sheppard Robson.

Describing the design of the 35,000m² block, a spokesman for the practice said: ‘The building’s distinctive shape has been designed to negotiate its distinctive shape has been designed to negotiate its complex urban setting, with the crystalline form – which changes depending on the angle it’s viewed from – creating varying sizes of flexible floorplate.’

AHR is working on two waterside apartment blocks AHR is working on two waterside apartment blocks with views over the Manchester Ship Canal. The first of these, The Lightbox, is due to start construction in early 2017.

The pavilion, named Lilas, is the centrepiece of this year’s Beyond Limits exhibition, which showcases modern and contemporary outdoor sculpture. The sculpture, which is set to be auctioned and could fetch up to £500,000, is being installed as a tribute to Hadid, who died earlier this year.

Simon Stock, Sotheby’s senior international specialist and curator of the exhibition, said: exhibition, said: ‘For each of our annual Beyond Limits shows we seek to bring something new and thrilling to the experience, and the resurrection of Zaha Hadid’s seminal Lilas pavilion in such a historic location is one of the highlights this year.’

The Lilas pavilion was originally a temporary commission featuring calligraphic arcs rising to 5.5 metres, inspired by natural geometries such as flower petals and leaves.

In the summer of 2007, Hadid was the architect behind the inaugural Serpentine In the summer of 2007, Hadid was the architect behind the inaugural Serpentine Pavilion, created to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Serpentine Gallery.

Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is the ancestral seat of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire.

Zaha Hadid’s sculpture – created for the 2007 Serpentine summer party – has been temporarily installed at Chatsworth House by auction house Sotherby’s.

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Bryan Avery of Avery Associates has proposed an alternative to Sadiq Khan’s plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street – by creating an ‘overpass’ rather than rerouting the buses

AAvery’s plans are a revamped version of ones he drew up for the world-famous shopping street in 1983. The previous proposal, reported in The Times and The Evening Standard, was recommended for further study by Westminster Council but never received a backer.

His scheme features an ’overpass’ – accessed via short His scheme features an ’overpass’ – accessed via short concealed ramps – running from Marble Arch to Tottenham Court Road, with laminated glass on the underside, and supported by polished stainless-steel columns.

Buses and taxis would drive along the overpass, which Buses and taxis would drive along the overpass, which would consist of two lanes for traffic and a third for vehicles to collect passengers, while pedestrians would walk along Oxford Street beneath. Lifts and stairs from street level would provide access to the bus stops.

The London mayor pledged to pedestrianise the shopping avenue during his election campaign earlier shopping avenue during his election campaign earlier this year, as part of a strategy to tackle air pollution. Last month Valerie Shawcross, deputy mayor of London for transport, said the plans would be fully implemented by 2020.

But But Avery said the street provided a major route from east to west London, via the centre, and losing that transport link would have a ‘big impact’. He added that there was not enough capacity in the underground, and the upcoming Crossrail development, to remove the buses and taxis.

According to Robert Davis, deputy leader and cabinet According to Robert Davis, deputy leader and cabinet member for the built environment at Westminster Council, there are 75 bus routes along the street and around 270 buses per hour.

Avery said that finding different routes for these buses would not provide easy access to the street.

‘‘Moving buses to either of those alternative routes would place them too far away to serve the street,’ he said, ‘and any intermediate routes through Mayfair and Soho, or Marylebone and Fitzrovia, would be hugely

difficult on such narrow streets and would undoubtedly be fiercely contested by local residents.It would also delay and disrupt the bus services even more than they are today.’

Avery said his alternative proposals would also provide ‘provide ‘brightly lit’ and ‘reflective’ surfaces to ‘bounce the light’, as well as a rain canopy for shoppers. He said that because the plans present difficulties around Oxford Circus – for example, by blocking the view down Regent Street – the overpass could come down via a ramp at this point before going up again.

He added: He added: ‘The only conclusion I can come to, then as now, is that pedestrianisation is the ideal but if there isn’t another way of replacing or rerouting the 75 bus services then they need to be accommodated within the street.’

Westminster’s Robert Davis has told the AJ that major obstacles stand in the way of Khan’s pedestrianisation project.pedestrianisation project.

‘We realised that doing nothing is not an option and had five or six options for Oxford Street which we were modelling with the old mayor,’ he said.

‘The problem is where do you move the buses and ‘The problem is where do you move the buses and taxis? If you move them into, say, Wigmore Street – which is already chock-a-block – then you are just moving the problem elsewhere.’

He added: He added: ‘The new mayor has said the one election promise he can deliver is Oxford Street, but we’ve sat down with him and explained it’s not that easy. He’s looking for a headline and has just said “Let’s pedestri-anise Oxford Street” without any knowledge of it.’

Davis also pointed out that the mayor has no legal right to impose his plan on Oxford Street.

He said: ‘It is a Westminster site, so this is like me coming to your home and telling you how to turn your living room around. Residents are also pissed off they’ve not been consulted.’

He said that if Khan tried to change the law to enable him to impose the changes, it would mean missing his own deadline for completing the work.

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Northern Irish practice McGarry-Moon Architects has completed this house extension in Kingston-upon-Thames

The former hung tile-clad gatehouse has been renovated and a 176m2 extension added to turn the dilapidated site into a family home.

The mid-19th century Victorian house, which is designated a building of townscape merit in the Coombe townscape merit in the Coombe Wood conservation area, had previously stood as a marker for the entry to Richmond Park and is set within large gardens.

The new two-storey extension offers a contemporary contrast to the existing house using an iroko timber glulam structure and board marked concrete walls.

A separate 72m2 garden room has also been added which is approached from the main building via a louvred timber walkway.

Commissioned in 2012 to extend the cottage and create a large family home required an architecture of restraint. With the cottage restored to its former required an architecture of restraint. With the cottage restored to its former glory, the new extension meets the old with a touch of glass. Its palette is muted but precise, with crafted iroko timber glulams meeting sharp board-marked concrete walls. Together they form a restrained but striking palette that sits comfortably next to the detailed tiled faces of the cottage.

The finished scheme manifests itself as a new two-storey extension, with a separate garden room building. The double height space above the kitchen and dining area flow into the more secluded lounge. Looking out over the and dining area flow into the more secluded lounge. Looking out over the still pool and the retained mature trees, one encounters the garden room. A separate building, the garden room acts as a self-contained retreat, approached under a louvered timber walkway.

Environmental concerns were considered throughout the project, with the concrete walls and flooring providing essential thermal mass, and green roofs reducing the water run-off and also filtering pollutants.

The result is a project that allows the architectural languages of the The result is a project that allows the architectural languages of the contemporary and Victorian to relate to each other and form a stimulating and respectful dialogue. The delightful cottage has been fully restored and can again be appreciated for its architectural and historical interest, whilst now also providing a 6 bedroom family home.

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