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How to look after number one

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Designers have mixed contemporary and classical themes in the new luxury hotel One Aldwych in London, England. The building, originally designed to be a newspaper office in 1906, is classical. Construction features are typical of this era but the triangular plan is unusual. The shape necessitated individual room designs. Some suites at the corners of the building include three bedrooms and an exercise room. The lobby area is spacious and empty. Materials for furnishings and fittings include stainless steel, silk, acrylic and dark wood. Statues occur throughout the building.

Design and construction, Hotels and motels

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The quiet intimacy of a big top floor

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Circus Architects has been responsible for around 25 loft fit-outs in London, England. These include three lofts in Clerkenwell, one for a single working woman, one for a couple with one child and one for a professional Japanese couple. The firm has also fitted out one of two flats in the gynasium of a converted Victorian school in Clapham, London. This scheme features a mezzanine with space for a bedroom and dressing room.

Management, Condominiums, Housing conversion, Circus Architects

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Re-reading Cockerell at Cambridge

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Nineteenth century architect C.R. Cockerell's Cambridge University Library building in Cambridge, England, has been renovated by British architectural practice Donald Insall Associates to absorb college archive data and historic books. A plan of the basement, ground floor and first floor is given together with a description of renovation works. Services have also been upgraded.

Remodeling and renovation, University of Cambridge, University and college libraries, Academic libraries, Donald Insall Associates

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