by James Balston | Jun 26, 2012 | Apartments, Contemporary, Designers & Architects, London
It’s always a pleasure working with designers who are just getting started in their career, and watching them progress. Jess Lavers seems literally to have started at the top, with this huge penthouse in Fitzrovia for prestigious client, Great Portland Estates.... 
by James Balston | Jan 12, 2012 | Bathrooms, Contemporary, Homes
Aside from the big name “starchitects” out there, building ever more elaborate office towers, big brand art galleries or futuristic transport interchanges, most in the profession are lone practicioners or small firms quietly getting on with small scale... 
by James Balston | Feb 24, 2010 | Contemporary, Homes
The humble Victorian terraced house has been revolutionised over the last decade. For much of the last century, it was in decline; bombed by the thousand during the war, and many more destroyed during the fifties and sixties, by planners, eager to create a brave new...