House & Home - Hackney Citizen

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

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Make Shift offers local enterprises new spaces at their latest project, Hackney Bridge

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Anthology Hoxton Press: City living from new heights in Hackney with these one, two and three bedroom homes

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Fresh from starring in Gardeners' world, we have some shots of Mike Spezzano's 'exotic Dalston oasis'. Photographs: Mike Spez

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

London Lane: a beautiful selection of one, two, three & four bedroom homes in the heart of Hackney

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Upper 43: a stunning new development of seventeen private 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments in Upper Clapton

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Wandsworth Sash Windows: redesigning entire properties, not just windows

Basket case: wicker balcony designer ‘speechless’ after award nod

‘Fairytale’ building in Stoke Newington nominated for prestigious 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize

Author: Hackney Citizen

Basket case: a supine look at Barrett’s Grove's eye-catching balconies. Photograph: Tim Soar

‘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

Author: Hackney Citizen

“I think anything that brings people together to connect with each other and provokes questions and debate is a good thing”:

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

A period of calm: The Geffrye Museum period gardens in summer. Photograph: Mandy Williams

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hamish Burnett (far-right) and supporters gathered outside e Star by Hackney Downs pub - which has swift boxes in situ. Photo

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Retro-spectacular: this article is peppered with some of the treasures to be found at Broadway Retro. Photographs: Andrew Bar

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

Author: Hackney Citizen

Home time: Downsview School when it was home of the Guardians. All photographs: Enter HUMAN