Reading nook and a hidden room added in London house extension
Architecture practice Thomas-McBrien extended a London house, adding a oak-lined reading nook and a utility room hidden behind a secret door along with a kitchen and dining space. More
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31/44 Architects puts a modern spin on a Victorian terrace in south London
31/44 Architects shows how London's 19th-century townhouses can be brought into the 21st century, with this three-home development in Peckham. More
Studio Ben Allen designs artichoke-shaped garden room
Green shingles cover the exterior of this octagonal, flatpack garden room in south west London, designed by Studio Ben Allen. More
Glossier's floral pop-up store in London blooms with colour
Glossier's in-house design team channelled 19th-century splendour for the interiors of its pop-up shop in London, which is covered in colourful flower-print wallpaper. More
Foster + Partners completes luxury Principal Tower in London
Architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed its first residential skyscraper in London, which contains 299 luxury apartments. More
Flow Architecture lines stairwell of London house conversion with timber slats
Flow Architecture and Maria Grazia Savito Architects have wrapped timber slats around the lightwell of a Victorian house conversion in Kensington, London. More
Stansted Airport "challenged all the rules of terminal design"
Norman Foster's studio turned the typical airport layout upside down with its 1991 Stansted Airport, which saw the high-tech architecture style applied to aviation for the first time. More
Competition: win a copy of London’s Great Theatres by Simon Callow and Derry Moore
In our latest competition, we're offering five readers the chance to win a copy of London's Great Theatres by Simon Callow with photography by Derry Moore. More
London pop-up House of Harth is filled with rentable furniture
Buyers can borrow pieces of furniture from this pop-up shop, which online sharing platform Harth has opened in north London. More
The Lloyd's building is Richard Rogers' first high-tech office block
Continuing our high-tech architecture series, we take a look at the inside-out Lloyd's building in London, Richard Rogers' second major building following Centre Pompidou. More
Design Museum will showcase Prada, trainers and electronic music in 2020 as visitor numbers rise
London's Design Museum has unveiled its exhibition programme for 2020, with a major show about fashion brand Prada due to open in September. More
London cafe in spiral concrete shell has retractable windows
A spiral cafe with a rooftop garden in Chelsea, London, by architecture studio NEX has curved windows that can retract fully when the weather is good. More
Madeline Hall reinterprets religious imagery as "psychedelic" ceramic sculptures
Ceramicist Madeline Hall's graduation project from Central Saint Martins was this collection of brightly coloured, gravity-defying sculptures based on religious scenes. More
Park Road Apartments is a radical housing tower clad in "ridiculous" metal
Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw built Park Road Apartments, which contained their own homes, in the 1970s. We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at the metal-clad housing block. More
Hopkins House is a high-tech home for two of the pioneers of the movement
Hopkins House was designed by Michael and Patty Hopkins as their own home. We take a look at the lightweight steel and glass house as part of our series on high-tech architecture. More
Gus Casely-Hayford appointed as first director of V&A East
British historian, curator and broadcaster Gus Casely-Hayford has been appointed the inaugural director of V&A East, the South Kensington museum's east London outpost. More
Europe's largest green wall "will absorb eight tonnes of pollution annually" in London
Sheppard Robson has unveiled the mixed-use Citicape House in London that will have the "largest living wall in Europe" to help improve local air quality. More
Threefold Architects completes Airbnb's latest London office
A 15th-century painting of a studious priest became Threefold Architects' point of reference for the design of Airbnb's latest office, located in central London. More
Stanton Williams "puts science on show" at London research centre for rare child diseases
The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children in London by architect Stanton Williams features street-level glazing that allow people walking past to peer into its laboratories. More
Made Thought creates "a website that exists" in the form of a pop-up shop
Design studio Made Thought has imagined the shop of the future, with an experimental pop-up in London that has a lot in common with a digital experience. More