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London designer Giles Miller installed this bar for Inside World Festival of Interiors at a former petrol station as part of Clerkenwell Design Week in London last week.

Called Step Inside, the installation by Chetwoods Architects featured furniture by local designers suspended from scaffolding overhead.

Miller covered the bar in 1500 yellow ceramic tiles, laid at 20 degrees to the curved MDF surface to create two opposing swirls.

The bar was topped with grey quartz by Cosentino while the tiles were made in the UK and provided by Materials Lab.

Dezeen are media partners for the Inside World Festival of Interiors, which will take place 2-3 November 2011 in Barcelona.

Clerkenwell Design Week took place 24-26 May. See more stories about the event »

Photographs are by Luke Hayes.

Here are some more details from Inside World Festival of Interiors:

STEP INSIDE BAR AT CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK

VISIT THE ‘EXPLODED ROOM’ AT THE STEP INSIDE BAR — BROUGHT TO YOU BY INSIDE WORLD FESTIVAL OF INTERIORS 2-3 NOVEMBER 2011, BARCELONA

Visit the Step Inside Bar’s ‘exploded room’ at the Clerkenwell Garage on Clerkenwell Road and you will find a topsy-turvy world where design anarchy flips convention on its head and chaos rules! In a unique instillation designed by Chetwoods Architects, furniture from some of Clerkenwell’s most exciting participants will ‘explode’ in an innovative way.

Celebrating the UK launch of Inside: World Festival of Interiors – Step Inside Bar operated by Clerkenwell establishment Giant Robot will be serving wonderfully festive Inside-themed drinks. Come and delight in the disorder as you have a drink at the bar designed by Giles Miller Studio, one of the UK’s most exciting up and coming design talents, with products from Materials Lab, the design worlds interactive materials resource and Cosentino.

Inside is a brand-new festival celebrating the world’s finest interior designers and their projects. Through a series of fringe events, talks, installations and the prestigious awards programme, Inside will be a vibrant platform for creative thought, mutual inspiration and idea exchange – capturing the design zeitgeist in style over two exciting days in Barcelona.

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Pop-up store by Giles Miller	C-X75 by Jaguar	Dezeen Watch Store at Clerkenwell Design Week

Architect David Adjaye has completed the renovation of this Art Deco building in London, providing six storeys of office accommodation.

The original brick and render facade of Edison House has been retained, as have the exposed concrete floors, columns and ceilings.

The refurbishment includes a new reception area that contains built-in red leather seating and a reception desk made from stacked planes of marble.

The developers, Manhattan Loft Corporation, now use part of the building as their headquarters.

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Here are some further details from Manhattan Loft Corporation and Adjaye Associates:

The Edison is a recently completed 6 storey office development on Old Marylebone Road, by Manhattan Loft Corporation and architect Adjaye Associates.

Both the external and internal structuring represents such a strong, constructive Art Deco style that this has been maintained throughout. The existing concrete floors, columns and ceilings have been retained, as has the original brick and render frontage.

The constructive design of the reception area is a reminder of the buildings industrial past. The stark combination of concrete flooring with fibre cement ceiling and walls heighten this essence, but the red marble desktop, red leather banquette and sunken mirrors give a modern, even feminine touch.

These sharp juxtapositions between original and modern, industrial and comforting, are found throughout the building and indeed in the contrast of the surrounding architecture.

“On first seeing the site, it was immediately obvious that this seemingly ordinary building could be converted in to something more modern and exciting: a stylish, contemporary loft development. I wanted to create an alternative in what has become a very fashionable area: something grittier, more urban” – Harry Handelsman, CEO, Manhattan Loft Corporation

“I have taken the theme of concrete and asked questions about how it is expressed now in its new hybrid forms. This is the playful design palette for the reception and core space” – David Adjaye – Adjaye Associates

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Moroso headquarters by David Adjaye	Rivington Place by David Adjaye	Housing for New Orleans by David Adjaye & others

This twisted residential tower clad in zinc-coated steel is part of a mixed use development proposal in Shoreditch, London by Amanda Levete Architects.

Proposed on a former industrial site opposite the new station, Huntingdon Estate would provide retail spaces at ground floor as well as a gallery, creative workshops and a covered market.

The project, which has been in development since 2009, has been submitted for planning.

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Here are some more details from Amanda Levete Architects:

Huntingdon Estate 2009

AL_A has developed plans for a mixed-used site in the heart of London’s East End. Located between Bethnal Green Road and Redchurch Street, the scheme for the Huntingdon Industrial Estate proposes the radical transformation of a former industrial site into an innovative and energised commercial, cultural and residential centre. London is a city that continues to evolve and re-invent itself, and Shoreditch is an intrinsic part of this.

The density and diversity, and the innovative and creative spirit which defines this area is reflected in the mixed residential and business communities that inhabit it, and the varying scales of building that surround it. AL_A’s design for Huntingdon addresses this complex urban context, and draws on the site’s vibrancy and pivotal position on the City fringe.

The plinth and tower structure will compliment surroundings by responding to the duality inherent in the site. The plinth is modelled with the same small scale, fragmented grain of historic Shoreditch and uses materials, which echo the tough, light industrial character of the area. The different sized retail spaces found here have been designed specifically to attract local, small and independent businesses, supported by capped rent, which will continue to contribute to this expanding community. Plans to further preserve and enrich the neighbourhood’s cultural and creative life centre around the development of a gallery space, creative workshop atelier and a covered, pedestrianised market.

The slim residential tower, positioned immediately opposite the new Shoreditch station appears to rise from the plinth, twisting elegantly as it reaches upwards. A material palette of glass and zinc-coated steel of different scales, textures and finishes, enables a low density mass over the majority of the site, and creates an urban grain that integrates with the surroundings. The sophisticated dynamic form responds to solar conditions throughout the day enabling optimum daylight for new and existing homes, and minimising unwanted solar gain. A rich mix of apartment sizes, and a green landscaped roof, will offer a variety of environmentally friendly, energy-efficient homes in this sought after location, and will set a precedent for landmark quality apartments that do not currently exist in Tower Hamlets.

The Huntingdon Estate scheme is being developed by Londonewcastle and was submitted for planning in March following in depth consultations with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, GLA, CABE, EH and local residents and community groups.

Client: Londonewcastle
Programme: Mixed use residential building
Area: 16,220m²
Status: Submitted for planning March 2011 by Londonewcastle (Shoreditch Ltd)
Architect: AL_A
Principal: Amanda Levete
Project Director: Ho-Yin Ng
Project Team: Matthew Wilkinson, Alice Dietsch, Frederick Pittman, David Flynn, May Leung, Naoki Kotaka, YooJin Kim, Dessislava Lyutakova
Consultants: Planning DP9
Townscape and Conservation: Richard Coleman
Structural Engineer: AKT
M&E Engineer: Grontmij
Quantity Surveyor: EC Harris
Landscape: Gross Max
Rights of Light: GIA
EIA: Waterman Environmental
CDM: PFB Construction
Traffic: Savell Bird & Axon
Programming: Elizabeth Tweedale

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Subway Station by Amanda Levete & Anish Kapoor	10 Hills Place by Amanda Levete Architects	Central Embassy by Amanda Levete Architects

Peter Barber Architects have produced these drawings as part of a planning application for 25 terraced family houses in London’s East End.

The layout of the proposed houses on Fleet Street Hill across 3-4 storeys allows each to have its own ground floor courtyard, as well as accessible roof terraces.

It is intended for each house to have its own street level front door, facing onto a new tree-lined public square.

Here are some more details from the architects:

Fleet Street Hill, Peter Barber Architects

BD Housing Architect of the year Peter Barber Architects have submitted a planning application for a delightful new tree lined public square of large terraced houses between Brick Lane and Shoreditch in the East End of London.

The scheme employs the practice’s trademark terrace/courtyard hybrid housing typology so that every home has its own street edge front door and good sized outside space in a ground floor courtyard and inset roof terraces.

Arcaded frontages echo the industrial vernacular of Bishopsgate Goods Yard while defining an informal terrace area at the edge of the square for the use of each family.

For the most part buildings alternate between three and four stories. The square is entered through two intimately scaled mews streets with steps cascading into the square from the adjacent railway bridge.

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A pencil thin tower is located on a prominent corner on the axis of Pedley Street alongside the entrance to the square.

“I think it’s brilliant that it will give local people a lovely new public square and community centre, and fantastic that 25 large families with children will be able to remain in this very desirable central location immediately next to the park, in generous size houses rather than flats.”
Peter Barber, Director

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Tokyo Balconies by KINO Architects	House I by Yoshichika Takagi	V21K07 by Pasel Kuenzel Architects

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