Make Shift offers local enterprises new spaces at their latest project, Hackney Bridge
Open now for applications, Hackney Bridge is the latest project by Make Shift, the team behind Pop Brixton and Peckham Levels
House & Home
Anthology Hoxton Press: City living from new heights in Hackney with these one, two and three bedroom homes
Make Hoxton Press your new home in one of these sought after apartments overlooking Shoreditch Park, and enjoy all the area has to offer
Hackney gardeners spring into action to bring nature’s tranquillity to the city
From a tropical backyard hideaway featured on tonight’s Gardeners’ World to community-run vegetable patches, Hackney residents are showing off their green fingers in the spring sunshine
London Lane: a beautiful selection of one, two, three & four bedroom homes in the heart of Hackney
Advertising feature: this new set of abodes close to London Fields let you make your home in one of London’s most ideal spots
Upper 43: a stunning new development of seventeen private 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments in Upper Clapton
Available from February 2018 | Liverpool Street in 13 minutes | all homes with private balcony or terrace
Wandsworth Sash Windows: redesigning entire properties, not just windows
When calling in the window experts these clients were not expecting the complete transformation of their home
Basket case: wicker balcony designer ‘speechless’ after award nod
‘Fairytale’ building in Stoke Newington nominated for prestigious 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize
‘I found my East Berlin right here in East London’: Hackney Tours interview
We meet Simon Cole who, as the man behind the ‘alternative experience walks’, knows his Hackney history and the lay of the land locally
Garden variety: a look at the Geffrye Museum’s plans for their grounds this month
The front and period gardens of Hoxton’s Geffrye Museum will be as busy as ever during next year’s renovation. Ahead of that, we look at what’s happening there this month
Swift exit: is Hackney Council missing a big opportunity by exiling this most high-flying of birds?
Their aerial displays above Hackney’s skies thrill many, but campaigners such as Hamish Burnett are concerned that they will find nowhere to nest in the borough’s increasingly renovated old and new buildings, as he explains in this comment piece
Broadway Market’s most enigmatic furniture shop: we talk to the shopkeeper/owner of Broadway Retro
Broadway Retro has no web presence, no sign and is “mainly shut” – but a look around and a chat with owner and shopkeeper Sarah Bancroft reveals many a reason to visit, and some fascinating insights into the storied market
HUMAN Life: the Hackney artist who documented her time living in an abandoned school
Downsview School in Hackney Downs has been demolished. Photographer/producer Enter HUMAN documented her time spent living there
Young Ideal-ists: Capel Manor student grabs gold in gardening contest
A student from Capel Manor College has won big in the Ideal Home Show’s Young Gardeners of the Year competition
Kings Group interview: the borough is the bee’s knees
In the second of our features on estate agents in the borough, we talk to co-founder Karl Knipe on buying and renting in a tough market
A Process Revealed, book review: Stadt and deliver
Timber-framed behemoth Stadthaus on Murray Grove is the subject of A Process Revealed, which demystifies the apartment block’s architectural approach
The Writer’s Shed: a ‘cabin in the woods’ in the heart of London
Within the Victorian houses that surround London Fields is a hidden design gem, tailor-made for one