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New riverside homes along London's historic Embankments
London’s riverside embankments — Victoria, Albert and Chelsea — are to be transformed in a regeneration scheme that will replace existing post-Blitz office blocks with contemporary new apartments, curvy skyscrapers, parks and promenades.
Rochester spotlight
Rochester sits close to the river Medway in Kent, 30 miles south-east of London. The cobbled streets of this ancient city have set the scene for some of Dickens's most famous works, while its mix of period homes and riverside flats attract Londoners.
Welwyn Garden City spotlight
Welwyn Garden City first sprang up in the Twenties with long, wide grassy boulevards and charming red-brick homes. Today this Hertfordshire town has a good choice of new-build flats and neo-Georgian houses within a 30-minute commute to London.
Home aboard the Mary Rose
Henry VIII's famous Tudor warship capsized more than 500 years ago. Now, the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth is a time capsule that reveals the elegant simplicity of this astonishingly well-preserved early English oak furniture.
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Buy of the week: Earls Court, SW5
This neat little Earls Court number has polished concrete floors, exposed brick walls and a glossy, aubergine kitchen alongside stairs up to a mezzanine sleeping area.
Out of town: Alcester, Warwickshire
This former manor house in Warwickshire's rolling countryside has two en-suite bedrooms, a kitchen/dining room for entertaining, a cellar and a large garage.
Life-changer: Corwen, Denbighshire
This five-bedroom beauty comes with two holiday-let cottages. Plenty of beams, open fires and exposed stone can be found in the main house, along with bags of family space.
Banbury spotlight
The small town of Banbury in Oxfordshire is a home-hunter's dream, with good-value elegant family houses and charming cottages surrounded by attractive countryside villages - all within an hour's commute to London.-
Buy of the week: Earls Court, SW5
This neat little Earls Court number has polished concrete floors, exposed brick walls and a glossy, aubergine kitchen alongside stairs up to a mezzanine sleeping area. -
Out of town: Alcester, Warwickshire
This former manor house in Warwickshire's rolling countryside has two en-suite bedrooms, a kitchen/dining room for entertaining, a cellar and a large garage. -
Life-changer: Corwen, Denbighshire
This five-bedroom beauty comes with two holiday-let cottages. Plenty of beams, open fires and exposed stone can be found in the main house, along with bags of family space.
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The Narrow Path by the D*Haus Company
By Barbara Chandler
This square table splits into four asymmetric shapes that can be arranged as an equilateral triangle
This clever house has been created based on mathematical principles and revolves to follow the light
An avant-garde team of London architects, designers and artists have turned their obsession with mathematics into a model for a remote-controlled “dynamic” house with moving walls. These can react to the seasons, revolving to follow the sun for optimum light, and unfold to rearrange space.
Its geometry (based on principles laid down by the English mathematician Henry Dudeney in 1903) is reflected in smaller objects such as an ingenious square table that splits into four hinged asymmetric shapes that can be arranged as an equilateral triangle.
A light and a chandelier have a similar design. Limited edition prints complete this intriguing show.
Anise Gallery, 13a Shad Thames, SE1; anisegallery.co.uk; thedhaus.com.
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