Sunken house by De Matos Ryan nestles in a secret garden
This house in London by local studio De Matos Ryan sits within a sunken courtyard, surrounded by a secret flower garden (+ slideshow). More
This house in London by local studio De Matos Ryan sits within a sunken courtyard, surrounded by a secret flower garden (+ slideshow). More
News: architects Frank Gehry and Foster + Partners have today presented designs for a neighbourhood of 1300 homes, for the third phase in the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in south London. More
News: plans have been revealed this morning for a series of loaf-shaped skyscrapers to accompany the Cheesegrater, Can of Ham, Toast Rack and Gherkin buildings in central London. More
Garments are suspended in front of draped fabric above a steel parquet floor in the new womenswear floor that design studio JamesPlumb has created for east London fashion boutique Hostem (+ slideshow). More
Jagged shelving units and scored surfaces were designed to evoke the look of food crates and packaging at this London butcher and delicatessen by local office Fraher Architects (+ slideshow). More
Chris Dyson Architects has added a soot-washed brick extension with a curved wall to a Georgian terraced house and former nunnery in east London (+ slideshow). More
Selfridges has collaborated with mobile phone company HTC to create a temporary 1,700 square metre skatepark replete with ramps, rails, benches and banks, in the middle of London's West End. More
London studio dRMM has completed a house and studio for Hackney artist Richard Woods, using his trademark cartoon-style print to add colour to the building's facade and staircase (+ slideshow). More
A rooftop extension fronted by a grid of metal mesh and glass contrasts with the original brick facade of this building in east London renovated by Duggan Morris Architects (+ slideshow). More
Architecture studio AOC has renovated a four-storey townhouse in north London, adding wall-hung vintage bicycles and timber mouldings based on the faces of the resident family. More
British studio Jonathan Tuckey Design worked with a small team and a tight budget to build this timber-lined gatehouse for a west London primary school. More
A dramatic oak staircase with a sweeping handrail connects the five storeys of this Victorian convent building in south London, which has been converted into four homes by John Smart Architects (+ slideshow). More
Objects designed to support political activism including a graffiti-writing robot and a giant inflatable cobblestone made to be thrown at police will form the focus of an exhibition opening this summer at London's V&A museum. More
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with London's Design Museum to give readers the chance to win five pairs of tickets for the upcoming Designs of the Year 2014 exhibition. More
News: Chilean architect Smiljan Radić has been named as the designer of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and is proposing a translucent domed structure of white fibreglass. More
News: residents of a Brutalist housing development in London have persuaded Channel 4 to screen a home-made version of the broadcaster's ident after a lengthy campaign against its "inaccurate" portrayal of life on the estate. More
London architecture firm DH Liberty has added an installation of reclaimed bottles to this figure-of-eight shaped office in a converted Shoreditch warehouse (+ slideshow). More
London studio Patalab Architecture made the most of the space inside this awkward-shaped residence in the north of the city by running a staircase along the entire rear wall and adding a door that folds around a corner (+ slideshow). More
These new shots by London photographer Rory Gardiner show the tapered form of The Leadenhall Building by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, which is nearing completion in the City of London (+ slideshow). More
Hidden at the bottom of a London garden, this glowing shed by British studio Weston, Surman & Deane was designed as a writing retreat for an author (+ slideshow). More