A Room for London

This week, our lucky ballot winners enjoyed a free Valentine’s night (Feb 14^th 2012) at A Room for London, plus a free lunch at Southbank Centre’s Skylon Restaurant. 

Recent press coverage 

• Conde Nast Traveller - Reading retreats in the UK: Sun, Sea and Socrates
• The Observer - A Room for London review, by Rowan Moore
• The Sunday Times - A Room for London, a monument to English eccentricity
• The Guardian - A Room for London: A high water mark, by Jonathan Glancey
• The Financial Times - A Room for London: David Kohn and Fiona Banner's architectural installation
• London Evening Standard - A Room for London: Capital's very own room with a view
• London Evening Standard - A Room for London
• The Daily Mail - All aboard: Boat hotel to be perched above the Thames
• BBC Radio 4 (Midweek, 20th July 2011): interview with Jane Wernick, our strucutural engineer
• Wallpaper: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 by Peter Zumthor (mentions The Secular Retreat)
• The Guardian: Peter Zumthor plans a Secular Retreat
• The Independent: Arthouse retreats
• BBC News: RIBA 2011 Awards. Brilliant Buildings (scroll to third image)
• The Guardian: RIBA 2011 Awards.
• The New Yorker - Design for Living. Modernist vacation homes with a mission
• Daily Mail (travel) - A break at The Balancing Barn, Suffolk's futuristic new holiday home
• Wallpaper - The Shingle House, Dungeness
• Dezeen - video interview with Winy Maas of MVRDV
• TIME magazine - English country goes rock 'n' roll
• Irish Times - The lines of beauty, holidays in modernism
• D2 (Norway)
• The Financial Times - Seaside surrealism
• The Observer - Giving a modernist twist to holiday homes
• The Telegraph - Have a holiday in modern architecture
• The Guardian (travel) - High design, low price: UK holiday homes
• The Times - Holiday homes go out on a limb
• Wallpaper - Fab 40: Living Architecture
• The Guardian - Holiday homes to promote modernist architecture
• The Evening Standard
• The New York Times - Designer digs

Recent Awards

• RIBA Manser Medal 2011: shortlisted, and winner of the public vote (The Balancing Barn)
• RIBA 2011 Awards: winner (The Balancing Barn)
• RIBA 2011 Awards: winner (The Shingle House)
• Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011: shortlisted (The Balancing Barn)
• Red dot design award: winner (The Balancing Barn)
• Conde Nast Traveller Innovation & Design Awards 2011: winner (The Balancing Barn)

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