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July 14, 2023
Studio Weave’s visually-striking cliff top house on South Korea’s eastern peninsula draws its inspiration from traditional domestic forms and materials. Photos Kyung Roh Located on a cliff top overlooking South Korea’s Eastern Sea, Seosaeng House is a multi-generational family home designed by Studio Weave. The name of the dwelling translates as ‘the brightening East’ or […]
March 23, 2023
A carefully crafted yet functional rural dwelling by Loader Monteith forms a strong connection to its South Lanarkshire site. Photos Dapple Photography Designed by Loader Monteith, Equine House is a 155-square-metre dwelling located on subdivided dairy farm in South Lanarkshire. The clients initially moved into a static caravan on the site to establish their horse […]
March 3, 2023
Hayward Smart Architects has specified Conservation Plateau and neo rooflights from the Rooflight Company for a striking new-build house in the Cotswolds. In association with Hayward Smart Architects has completed The Long House on the outskirts of Sibford Ferris, a small rural village in north Oxfordshire. This impressive new build, on an idyllic wooded plot, […]
January 10, 2023
Architect Brown & Brown has designed a highly insulated retreat in the Scottish Highlands. So without sediment Run the clear burns of my country, Fiercely pure,Transparent as light— excerpt from “The Hill Burns” by Nan Shepherd, from In the Cairngorms An intensely rural place, the Cairngorms mountain range in the Scottish Highlands has inspired many. […]
April 5, 2022
Max Fordham’s north London house has become the first residential building in the UK to be verified as net zero carbon, making it a fitting tribute to the late great sustainable design pioneer. PhotosTim Crocker A private north London house, designed for – and lived in by – the late great Max Fordham, has achieved […]
February 28, 2022
Spray foam insulation from Huntsman Building Solutions forms part a project to transform a collection of derelict Cumbrian industrial buildings into a striking self-build house and office. In association with The external combination of Lakeland stone and larch cladding blends beautifully with its surroundings Dating back to the late 18th century, the original buildings were […]
February 22, 2022
Erbar Mattes Architects has skilfully remodelled a former pub in north London to create a home for an expanding family. PhotosStåle Eriksen, Simon Menges The Blockmakers Arms is a Grade II listed former public house situated on Shepherdess Walk in north London. Forming the end of a terrace of three-storey townhouses, the 19th-century building was […]
February 19, 2022
Threefold Architects has extended and remodelled a Victorian home in Muswell Hill, north London, adding a contemporary extension behind the restored red brick facade to create a “house of two halves”. Victorian end-of-terrace home had previously been split into two flats and the clients approached Threefold Architects to bring the property back into use as […]
February 15, 2022
Loader Monteith has reconfigured a Victorian merchant’s house outside Glasgow to create a home for an architectural designer and ceramicist, and added a blackened timber pottery studio. The property is located in a conversation area of Lenzie, Dunbartonshire and had been previously been subdivided into a pair of flats. The new owners, an architect and […]
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