A vaulted roof and plywood curved ceilings characterise a rear and side infill extension on a Victorian end of terrace home by ROAR Architects. Approached by the owners of this property in Walthamstow, the emerging London-based architecture practice were asked…
Forgeworks has introduced a contrasting modern extension and refurbishment to a North London Victorian terrace house, creating a beautifully crafted living space. A House for Sunday Lunch, as it is named, meets the demands of modern family living with its…
Artefact has completed a retrofit of a 1980s single-aspect house in London Islington’s Grove Estate, adding a cloister-style extension. Superimposing a new geometry into the rigid context of the ‘nondescript’ single aspect homes on the estate, the architects have extended…
Timmins + Whyte has updated a single-fronted Edwardian house in Melbourne, Australia, creating a 10-fold, origami-style roofline, which draws light into the centre of the home. Sitting unassumingly on its street in Abbotsford, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, the house…
Seeking a toxin-free home, the owners of a converted Victorian ground-floor flat in London approached Clayworks to help with the design of contemporary style, healthy living spaces. Yazen Hasi, owner of design and build firm Gestalt Developments, and his wife…
Three contemporary gable extensions of varying scales have been built by Studio McW, completing the first phase of a multi-stage renovation of Follyfield, a large 18th century traditional stone house in Cambridgeshire. This sensitive restoration and revival arose from a…
Whittaker Parsons has carefully crafted Corner Fold House, an 88 square-metre urban infill property on a vacant garden plot, forming a bookend to an existing terrace in South London. The logistically challenging site is nestled between an electricity substation and…
To meet the needs of a growing family, Montreal-based firm Ménard Dworkind (MRDK) has reconfigured a 40-year-old house, maximising space by adding a roof extension and floor-to-ceiling windows to avoid expanding the overall footprint. The four-bedroom house, located on Montreal’s…
A sustainable new-build home has been built by Sketch Architects in the Surrey countryside, with a focus on modern materials and thermal efficiency. Set on a steeply sloping site in Farnham, the two-storey house replaces a disused bungalow and is…
A sensitive retrofit of a Grade II listed Georgian manor house by emerging practice Delve Architects has transformed a former commercial property into a light-filled nursery. The design for the new nursery in Banbury, Oxfordshire is led by natural light…
Adding a minimalist twist to a Victorian terraced house extension, EBBA Architects has maximised light and crafted vaulted ceilings with a nod to classic Roman arches. Located in east London, Cast House is named after its subtly brown-toned concrete rear…
Interlocking cork-rendered extensions completed by Whittaker Parsons make use of recycled materials to transform and upgrade a four-storey Georgian townhouse in East London. The two interconnecting extensions are steeply sloping, with faceted pitches which are expressed internally, lined in FSC…
Mjölk Architekti has transformed a 130-year-old cottage into a glass cabin, adding a modern extension on to the charming original building nestled in the Czech forest. The “glittering glass extension”, as the architects describe it, modernises the dwelling enshrouded by…
Architect Grant Straghan of DeDraft has remodelled his 1930s family home in London with a rear extension clad in blue-green cement tiles. The monolithic rear extension has a sculptural quality, clad in tiles that frame the large oak and…
In a complete remodelling of a Victorian terrace house in North London, Neil Dusheiko Architects have overcome structural issues to create a thoughtfully crafted and future-proofed family home. Many years of subsidence had caused movement in the historic brick façade,…
