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Responding to the Powers of Ten brief, this submission reimagines three of London’s most iconic structures as pieces of household furniture, compressing the scale of civic grandeur into tactile, everyday objects. Through this act of miniaturisation, the project interrogates how scale transforms meaning.

Battersea Power Station – Four-Poster Bed Once a towering symbol of industrial power, Battersea Power Station becomes a site of rest and vulnerability when translated into the form of a four-poster bed. Its bold chimneys—emblems of energy and ambition are transformed into vertical bedposts framing a personal space. A structure once charged with electricity becomes a piece of furniture now charged with dreams.

St Paul’s Cathedral – Kitchen Island St Paul’s is reinterpreted as a monolithic kitchen island—solid, central, and ceremonial. The dome, once designed to lift eyes and spirits, now invites domestic rituals: the chopping of vegetables and the sharing of meals. The island sits at the heart of the home, just as Wren’s masterpiece dominates the London skyline.

The Royal Albert Hall – Shoe Stool with Storage The Royal Albert Hall, long associated with spectacle, sound, and ceremonial occasion, is reimagined not as a grand stage, but as a grounded, everyday utility: a shoe-changing stool with integrated storage. Once a space where thousands gathered to witness performances, it now serves a quieter transitional moment—where one sits to change shoes at the threshold between inside and out. The building’s iconic circular form becomes a low, drum-like stool, with its curved exterior adapted into hinged panels that open to reveal compartments for storing footwear. Its domed top flattened and upholstered offers a soft surface to sit upon, forming a miniature auditorium for shoes. Together, these three pieces form a domestic triptych monuments miniaturised.

Each object is crafted with SterlingOSB Zero, celebrating the material’s honesty, texture, and humble tactility—reinforcing the project’s thematic focus on the interplay between monumental form and domestic function. By manipulating scale, the project asks: what happens when cities become furniture, and history becomes a thing to lean on, eat at, or dream within?