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Snug Architects completes timber-clad house in Hampshire
This 260m2 house by Snug Architects aims for a natural aesthetic and features a white rendered band around the base
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McLean Quinlan creates Devon Passivhaus home under Para 79
The house's exterior finishes of brick and render are designed to blend with existing garden walls and the surrounding Devon landscape
Victorian house in west London reworked by Matthew Giles Architects with light-filled extension
Located in the Mount Park Conservation area in Ealing, the 5-bedroom house has been extended and interconnected internally to meet the changing needs of the client’s family
Alison Brooks Architects completes house tailored around art collection
The house in Gloucestershire consists of a restored late-Georgian farmhouse, converted to a gallery and office, with a new wing, walled gardens and pool gallery
Stephen Coates reworks villa with new annexe focused on courtyard garden
Major refurbishment and extension of an Edwardian house with addition of a Passivhaus-standard annexe in south west London
From farm to form: Flat house by Practice Architecture
Film director-turned-hemp farmer Steve Barron commissioned Practice Architecture to help him ‘grow’ a prototype house using his own crop. The result is Flat House, an ultra-low embodied carbon building the team is now looking to reproduce at scale. Rob Wilson interviewed Paloma Gormley, partner at Practice Architecture, to find out more. Photography by…
Conibere Phillips completes ‘Tardis-like’ mid-terrace house in Brockley
The four-bedroom home, designed for one of the practice’s directors and his family, reworks the Victorian terrace type
Family home created from Victorian school hall by Paper House Project
A previously derelict structure has been converted into a three bedroom house with a new mezzanine sundeck and sunken courtyard providing outside space
Remodelling and extension of end-of-terrace house completed by Neil Dusheiko Architects
Sited in a conservation area of west London, the project uses hand-crafted bricks to add texture and character to new daylight-flooded living spaces
Ian O’Brien Studio completes timber steading constructed from a single tree
Sited in the ruins of a stone farm outbuilding in a secluded Perthshire glen, this residential scheme provides extra living space for a family holiday home