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January 4, 2024
Emile Eve Architects has added a double-height atrium in an extension to a home in North London. Photos Taran Wilkhu Nestled in into the Highgate Conservation Area in London, Hackney studio Emil Eve Architects has toyed with scale and light to revamp this five-storey Edwardian terraced home. The biggest intervention to the property is the […]
November 23, 2023
Bindloss Dawes has transformed an unloved Victorian terraced house in east London into a spacious light-filled family home. Photos Nick Dearden Bindloss Dawes, in collaboration with designer Daytrip, has skilfully reworked a Victorian terraced house in Clapton, east London. The clients tasked the Somerset-based practice with creating a spacious and light-filled dwelling comprising distinct yet […]
November 20, 2023
Mclaren Excell has sympathetically reworked and extended a grade II-listed Victorian villa in Oxfordshire. Photos Rory Gardiner McLaren Excell has extended and renovated a grade II-listed Victorian villa in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The existing three-storey house had an unsympathetic, highly glazed dual-pitched rear extension. An elegant new brick-clad rear façade both complements and extends the building’s […]
November 10, 2023
Gundry + Ducker’s design for a home off Wimbledon Common aims to be a “country house in miniature.” Photos Andrew Meredith In the leafy confines of Wimbledon Common, southwest London, Gundry + Ducker has transformed a house from the early 2000s to provide more space and improve its internal qualities as well as the relationship […]
September 28, 2023
Landfall In 2008 Rupert Cook designed an energy-efficient, flood-proof retirement home for his parents on Hayling Island in Hampshire. John Pardey pays a visit to see how the house, and its occupants, have weathered the last 15 years. Words John Pardey Photos Timothy Soar Hayling Island, situated in the midst of the idyllic Chichester Harbour, […]
September 26, 2023
London-based practice O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects has drawn inspiration from Charles Moore’s aedicular houses built in California in the early sixties to design a house on the edge of Gruneswald Forest outside Berlin. Located in the southwest district of Dahlem, Euskirchen, about 12km outside of Berlin’s city centre, Dahlem House sits on the edge of Gruneswald […]
September 12, 2023
Haworth Tompkins’ industrial achievement Haworth Tompkins gives the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham the UK’s first new-generation vertical industrial building Haworth Tompkins has completed Industria, the UK’s first multi-storey light-industrial scheme, for BeFirst, the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’s regeneration company. The project provides over 11,400 sqm of floor space, accommodating 47 small […]
August 31, 2023
Jonathan Tuckey Design has restored a 19th century hillside farmstead in the Piemonte region of Northern Italy into a home and studio for a fashion designer and naturalist. Nestled on a hillside in the Piemonte region of Northern Italy Cascina was built as a 19th century farmstead consisting of three stone volumes – a two-storey […]
August 31, 2023
Oliver Leech Architects’ skilful manipulation of light, space and materiality has resulted in a visually-striking Surrey home that supports assisted living. Designed by Oliver Leech Architects, Butterfly House is a multi-generational dwelling located in Esher, Surrey. Commissioned by Nikki and Richard Earthrowl, the two-bedroom property occupies part of the couple’s garden and is intended for […]
August 22, 2023
Coffey Architects’ Modern Barn in Dorset A sleek timber home eases its way into the Jurassic Coast AONB. London-based practice, Coffey Architects has completed the ‘Modern Barn’ – a new home for Dorset clients Alan and Alison. Gently poking out from the sloping hillside of the Jurassic Coast, the Modern Barn takes the form of […]
August 21, 2023
KnoxBhavan has completed an exemplar low-carbon house on a challenging brownfield site in south-west London. Photos Edmund Sumner Designed by KnoxBhavan, Threefold House is a new-build, low-energy, single-family dwelling located on triangular-shaped site in Teddington, south-west London. Restricted access had rendered the 450-square-metre plot unsuitable for industrial use and for local housing associations. The client, […]
August 4, 2023
Office S&M’s house for two graphic designers makes use of playful colours and shapes to build on the client’s predilection for Art Deco motifs. Bold forms and striking colours abound — this is nothing new for London-based studio Office S&M. The practice has cut its teeth with playful designs awash with colour, adding joy to […]
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