The Architects’ Journal
The last slender tower London will allow itself
Haldane Voss spent a year measuring the light before they drew a line. The result is a building that argues, quietly, for doing less on a smaller plot.
Domus
Bronze, and the patience to let it weather
Meridian’s facade will not look like this in ten years, and that is the point. A study in specifying for time rather than for the launch photograph.
The Financial Times — House & Home
What Cranmere Wharf kept
Four listed cranes, a chandler, and a basin that was welded shut for thirty years. The developer retained all of it, and the building is better for the argument.
Wallpaper*
Eighty-eight plans, no two alike
Studio Marchetti was hired for the lobby and ended up drawing every kitchen in the building. Giulia Marchetti explains why she asked for the job.
Property Week
Vantry’s long game on the water
One site, seven years, no second scheme. The firm holds the freehold and employs the concierge directly — an increasingly unfashionable way to build.