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October 24, 2024
What are the key issues and challenges affecting today’s housing market, and how are these influencing the latest thinking in bathroom design? These questions were addressed by a panel of experts at a round table discussion in London hosted by Architecture Today and VitrA. In association with Round table participants Roger Black Creative Director, Ballymore […]
August 11, 2023
Zach Fluker, director of ao-ft, explains how Spruce House and Studio, constructed from CLT, establishes a prototype for sustainable housing on tight urban sites. Located in a conservation area, the house occupies a wide plot on what used to be the village high street. Over the past century, houses in the street have transitioned from […]
February 14, 2023
pH+ Architects’ fascinating reinvention of the English Country House combines boldness and precision with intimacy and a strong connection to its site, finds David Hills. The striking and contemporary Waterfield House by pH+ Architects can be found against the backdrop of the quiet Kent village of Goudhurst, which with its charming high street tumbling down […]
January 16, 2023
In Mile End, Charles Holland Architects has refurbished a Victorian house that dates back to the 1880s, adding a healthy splash of colour and character to the property. Big round windows, with timber frames proudly painted mustard yellow, guzzle up daylight and connect new spaces; ornate dado rails continue across doors; gutters and rain pipes […]
July 5, 2022
Studio Weave has added a timber-framed artist’s retreat to a stone cottage in rural Devon. London-based practice Studio Weave designed the retreat as an extension to the home of Tom Baker and Natalie Silk, the founders of Field Day festival. Named after the historic sandpit on which the project now stands, Made of Sand provides […]
June 28, 2022
Pierre d’Avoine Architects has converted a chapel in rural Umbria into a private house. Louis Mayes explores a project that weaves ecclesiastical structures and spaces into a contemporary home. Crucially, the project asks questions about the way previous functions translate from religious to secular whilst maintaining the rigour of a hierarchical divide between the various […]
May 9, 2022
James Alder Architects has added a russet extension to a home in north-west London, which has a steeply pitched roof following the outline of a now demolished lean-to. Architect James Alder was asked to design the extension for a couple who, having lived in the flat for some time, wanted a bigger kitchen and dining […]
April 21, 2022
Hareth Pochee, senior engineer at Max Fordham LLP and author of the net zero report for Max Fordham’s House, answers readers’ questions to explain how the figures behind the UK’s first carbon zero house stack up. How can this be the first net zero home? It’s only the verification that has changed. Max Fordham House […]
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 […]
February 1, 2022
Greg Lomas of Foster Lomas reviews Kirkland Fraser Moor’s Ashraya house, a low-carbon property tucked beneath an arching roof and covered in a blanket of greenery that melds it with its Chilterns Hills setting. We sit in David Kirkland’s studio, a stone’s throw from the Ashraya house, and discuss the back story of the house […]
13 November 2026
