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a glass building supported by red pillars with a Greenwich design district sign on top
Bumper Crop

The Greenwich Design District opens, bringing an architectural jamboree to London

exterior view of the barbican centre and lake
Barbi-will

The City of London launches design competition for major revamp of the Barbican Centre

rendering of a temporary arena for pop group abba
Here We Go Again

ABBA is getting its own temporary timber stadium in London for Voyage comeback tour

the top of a damaged apartment tower wrapped in protective material, grenfell tower
Coming Down?

Grenfell Tower will be demolished over local safety concerns

view of a soaring, futuristic atrium space in an financial building designed for lloyd's of london
Underwriting, Overhauled

Lloyd’s of London will revamp interior of its Richard Rogers-designed, listed headquarters

A climate changed fueled wildfire darkening the skies; in other news, the tower bridge is stuck open
And It Isn't Falling Down

Daily digest: The UN’s bombshell climate report, London’s Tower Bridge is stuck open, and more

rendering of a holocaust memorial made of 23 swooping bronze fins
Wrangling In Westminster

Adjaye and Arad’s controversial Holocaust memorial wins approval from U.K. Housing minister

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Trafalgar Transformation

Selldorf Architects wins Sainsbury Wing redesign at London’s National Gallery

Rendering of bamboo tensile structures rising on a roof at the antepavilion site
All Along the Watchtower

Antepavilion designers arrested as police raid East London site

Inside a library at the cosmic house
A Cosmic Journey

Charles Jencks’s Thematic House will open as a museum later this year

rendering of a busy public space at 105 Victoria, showing copper coffered ceilings
Let's Get Active

Henning Larsen ditches the standard office block lobby for its first London project

exterior of a temporary serpentine pavilion in a park
Come Together

Counterspace’s Serpentine Pavilion opens at Kensington Gardens (and elsewhere across London)

forest for change, an urban tree patch installed for the 2021 london design biennale
LDB 2021

What to catch at the 2021 London Design Biennale

a barge-restaurant with a patinated roof as seen beneath a bridge
All a(cheese)board!

A restaurant barge devoted to cheese is now moored on a London canal

The front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, big ben bell news, and more
Big Ben Is Bonging

Daily digest: Big Ben bell foundry will become a hotel, a new Met Museum plaque, and more

A worker installing triangular windows in london's design district
Piece By Piece

Tenants move in as London’s Greenwich Design District nears completion

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Everybody, Get On The Floor

Daily digest: London will convert empty offices into housing, confrontation at the MoMA, and more

One of this year's winning Antepavilion installations, a pyramid in a cover
The Ole' Razzle Dazzle

London’s Antepavilion competition soldiers on with new winners

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