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Matthew Giles Architects reworks suburban house with timber-clad extensions
The three-storey, semi-detached house has been extended out at ground-floor level to face a rear garden studio that helps unify the site
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The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Studio Bark designs off-grid Suffolk house
Water Farm, a country house clause house, has a geometric timber roof form inspired by local timber-framed buildings
Collective Works completes deep retrofit of north London terrace house
Mid Terrace Dream modernises a run-down early 1900s house into a low-carbon, low-energy home for a young couple
Dempsey + Gannon refurbishes and extends West Yorkshire home on £100k
Emerging Manchester-based practice Dempsey + Gannon has futureproofed a 1930s detached home in West Yorkshire for just over £100,000
MATA completes ‘back to brick’ refurb and extension of terraced house
The mid-terrace, Victorian house in Queen’s Park, west London, is designed for a young family who like to cook and entertain and often need to work from home
Name Architects completes understated retrofit of Hackney terraced house
The refurbishment of a two-storey Victorian house in London Fields, including a kitchen extension, employs a warm, simple palette of materials
Unknown Works completes minimalist home for its director in Kentish Town
A dark, poorly laid-out home has been transformed into a bright minimalist space with a new interior courtyard
NIKJOO and Flawk reimagine post-war terraced house in east London
NIKJOO has overhauled a post-war terraced house in Whitechapel, east London, for and with emerging creative developer Flawk
Markos Design Workshop completes prefabricated holiday cabin in Shropshire
The Monocoque Cabin project originated during the pandemic with the goal of integrating principles from the automotive industry into built environment design
Erbar Mattes completes timber framed home in Wimbledon
The low-energy, timber framed family home in south-west London is formed of three sculptural interconnected volumes