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London Architecture News in 2025

29 May 2025
Shard Place London Apartments Property
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)

image courtesy of architects practice
Neighbouring The Shard, 176 sophisticated apartments redefine London’s premium rental market with an unparalleled lifestyle offering.

Sidcup Storyteller
Design: DRDH Architects

photo : David Grandorge
A bold new red-brick library, cinema and co-working space has become the centrepiece of the high-street regeneration of Sidcup.

Harfield Gardens Home, Southwark
Design: Quinn Architects

photo : Elliot Sheppard
A retrofit of a mid-century-style house improves energy efficiency and aesthetics while preserving its original character.

21 May 2025
127 Charing Cross Road, Soho, central London
Architects: Barr Gazeta

photo : Timothy Soar

21 May 2025
London College of Fashion Building, Stratford Cross

photo : Simon Menges

20 May 2025
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Southwark

photo © Jack Hobhouse

20 May 2025
WorkStack, 599 Woolwich Road, London SE7
Design: dRMM architects

photo : Fred Howarth

20 May 2025
Japanese style Southwark home

photo : Anton Gorlenko

20 May 2025
The Gilbert & George Centre, off Brick Lane

photo : Prudence Cuming © The Gilbert & George Centre

17 + 14 May 2025
2025 RIBA London Awards Winners

17 May 2025
Elizabeth Tower Palace of Westminster Renovation
Renewal Design: Purcell

17 May 2025
Royal College of Music London Building Renewal
Renewal Design: John Simpson Architects

photograph : Andreas Von Einsiedel

16 May 2025
New Commonwealth War Graves Memorial
Original Design: Edwin Lutyens architect ; Design: Oshinowo Studio, Lagos, Nigeria

image © Hayes Davidson

16 May 2025
Catching Sun House, Walthamstow
Design: Studioshaw

9 May 2025
Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Competition designs

13 March 2025
New Wave House, Brent, Northwest London
Architect: Thomas-McBrien Architects

photo © Ståle Eriksen

1 May 2025
Battersea Power Station development on Electric Boulevard, Battersea
Design: Gehry Partners

30 April 2025
Verdant Office Building, 150 Aldersgate
Architecture: Fletcher Priest Architects

photo : Dirk Lindner

29 April 2025
Saville Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue
Design: SPPARC

image : SPPARC

21 March 2025
Lakeside Drive hotel, Royal Park Building Design
Design: GRID Architects

image courtesy of architects practice

20 March 2025
Maldron Hotel, Paul Street, Shoreditch, northeast London
Design: Jestico + Whiles

photo © Jack Hobhouse for Jestico + Whiles

21 February 2025
British Museum Western Range Galleries Design winner news
Design: Lina Ghotmeh Architecture

image courtesy of Lina Ghotmeh architecture studio
British Museum selects award-winning Paris-based Lina Ghotmeh Architecture as the winner of its Western Range competition. Director Nicholas Cullinan credited Ghotmeh’s ‘exceptional and materially sensitive architectural vision’ for the Western Range project.

13 February 2025
Sloane Street Transformation
Masterplan Design: John McAslan + Partners

picture courtesy of architects practice
Sloane Street Transformation
Sloane Street marks the completion of a grand transformation that further reinforces its position as one of the world’s leading luxury destinations.

12 February 2025
70 Gracechurch Street Office Building, City of London, London, United Kingdom
Design: Kohn Pederson Fox Architects – KPF

image courtesy of architects practice
70 Gracechurch Street City of London

12 February 2025
The Apex
Design: Bennetts Associates, Architects

photo © Hufton+Crow
The Apex Kings Cross TRIBECA
The Apex, the first building within London’s largest purpose-built life sciences development, TRIBECA, has completed in Kings Cross. Designed by Bennetts Associates for Reef Group, The Apex offers 112,526 sq ft of state-of-the-art office and laboratory space across six floors.

29 January 2025
Sinfonia Smith Square Hall

images © Sophie Oliver and © efg
Sinfonia Smith Square Hall
Smith Square Hall announce that it has been awarded a £452,035 grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to transform Smith Square Hall into a world-class cultural venue, with emerging talent at its heart.

28 January 2025
25th Serpentine Pavilion, Kensington Gardens, West London
Design: Marina Tabassum Architects

Design render, interior view. Photo: © Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Courtesy Serpentine
25th Serpentine Pavilion 2025 Building Design
Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects Selected for the 25th Serpentine Pavilion 2025.

22 January 2025
30 – 31 Golden Square Property Refurbishment, Soho
Design: John Robertson Architects

photo © Edmund Sumner
30–31 Golden Square, Soho
John Robertson Architects has completed the reconfiguration and refurbishment of 30 – 31 Golden Square for client Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva PLC.

22 January 2025
Grenfell Tower Memorial Design Team Shortlist News
The independent Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission and Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have today announced the five shortlisted teams that are competing for the chance to design the future memorial on the site of Grenfell Tower. The Memorial Commission has announced today that the five shortlisted design teams are:

• Curl La Tourelle + Head Architecture
• Freehaus
• George King Architects x Grow to Know
• New South
• Office Sian

Grenfell Tower Memorial Design Team

8 January 2025
10 Greycoat Place, Westminster, Central London, England, UK
Architects: SPPARC

image : Ed Reeve
10 Greycoat Place, Westminster