This year The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) went digital, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Retaining its June spot and theme – ​‘Power’ – LFA Digital 2020 launched a variety of virtual events, including ​‘Giant Dolls’ House — alone together’. 

The concept was simple: build your own doll’s house in a shoe box. The results? As varied, creative and unexpected as you can imagine. The collaborative project was delivered with the help of Oxfam and flags up the importance of home, especially in the light of the global refugee crisis. People submitted work by sending a photo of their creation to the organisers. 

More information on the Giant Dolls’ House project here.

LFA director Tamsie Thompson said ​‘LFA Digital is full of content that is experimental, daring and challenging – but also plenty of fun. This extraordinary programme for extraordinary times is designed to appeal to a global public audience’

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Exposed struc­ture and plas­ter mark Cat­ja de Haas’s base­ment office con­ver­sion. Fea­ture in the AJ writ­ten by Rob Wilson.

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The base­ment of this Lon­don ter­raced house has been re-mod­elled to cre­ate a light, airy office for the architect’s prac­tice, com­plete with its own direct entrance. The inter­nal stairs down to the Work­space Con­ver­sion have been removed and one of the spine walls has been opened-up leav­ing the struc­ture exposed. Full sto­ry can be seen here.

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The basement of this London terraced house has been re-modelled to create a light, airy office for the architect’s practice, complete with its own direct entrance. The internal stairs down to the Workspace Conversion have been removed and one of the spine walls has been opened-up leaving the structure exposed. Full story can be seen here.