Tag: interiors
70. 1 New Oxford Street and The Standard Hotel
1 New Oxford Street is an office refurbishment with works to the building envelope and internal structure and layout. Designed originally by French architect La Fontaine, it was heavily influenced by the Art Deco era and Beaux Arts.
69. The Grange
One of 6 individual houses designed by Pugin in the UK (5 built), The Grange planned out a new way of living for the Victorian family - clearly expressing room functions individually through the layout of the house.
63. Salmen House
This young practice was commissioned to design a new three bed rentable house for a private property developer. Situated in Plaistow, the house sits in a context of what used to be an affluent Victorian east London district with good transport links to London.
33. Strawberry Hill House
The SaLADS took a trip to Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham.
31. RIBA
The SaLADS headed down to 66 Portland Place; an office building in Marylebone that serves as the headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
25. Freemason’s Hall
The Freemason's Hall has been the centre of English Freemasonry for 230 years and is the oldest Grand Lodge in the world.
21. Wilton’s Music Hall
Built in 1859 by John Wilton, this Victorian Music hall was intended to bring the glitzy and entertainment of the west end theatre to the hard working people of the East End.
10. Dulwich Picture Gallery
The SaLADS visited John Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery.
8. The Homewood, Esher
The SaLADS took a trip to The Homewood, a modernist house in Esher, Surrey. Designed by architect Patrick Gwynne for his parents, The Homewood was given by Gwynne to the National Trust in 1999.
6. Denis Sever’s House
Dennis Severs' House in Folgate Street, London is a "still-life drama" created by Dennis Severs, who owned and lived in it until his death, as a "historical imagination" of what life would have been like inside for a family of Huguenot silk weavers. It is a Grade II listed Georgian terraced house in Spitalfields in the East End of London.
4. Leighton House
We visited Leighton House Museum in January 2014. This majestic building sits on a pretty residential street in leafy Kensington. The museum is the former home of the Victorian artist Lord Frederick Leighton and now displays artworks by Leighton and other pieces he collected.
3. St Martin’s in the Field
An original medieval church stood in a large grassy area, but today the current 1720s James Gibbs design sits on the edge of the iconic Trafalgar Square where tourists loiter and take photographs, whatever the season.
2. Raven Row
A gallery combining a refurbished 18th century silk mercer's house with a 1970s concrete framed office building.
1. Red House
Completed in 1860 by William Morris' architect and collaborator Phillip Webb the Red house was intended to be a haven for cutting edge artists, auters and their muses in the midst of the green fields of Kent.