Bindloss Dawes has remodelled a Chelsea mews house, breathing life into the once dark and dated space with a full-height lightwell and feature staircase, which maximises the space and creates a sense of volume. The small terraced house, set across…
A series of ground-floor alterations, involving a hallway to establish a sense of arrival, have allowed OWA to work with scale and orientation for the revival of a 1960s modernist house. Set within a small cul-de-sac in London Highgate’s conservation…
Henning Larsen has won an international urban competition to create new Berlin destination Ku’lturhof, a mixed-use district which will provide a framework for city dwellers to come together and connect. Set in the German capital, the soon-to-be neighbourhood will act…
ConForm Architects has transformed a terraced house in North London with a monolithic marble-clad extension, giving a nod to Greek architecture. Achilles House in Hampstead now has a renewed connection between its ground floor plan and the south-east facing garden,…
Taking a sensitive, conservation-based approach, TYPE Studio has renewed a 19th century garden apartment in Hampstead, London, with a rear extension and a series of joinery interventions that respect the existing period features. To bring more light into the ground…
Girona-based practice Camps Felip Arquitecturia has designed a single-family home as a cluster of six sloping volumes centred around a courtyard, with a focus on sustainable living. The design of House 016, led by founders Josep Camps and Olga Felip,…
A black-stained, cantilevered residence by Sparano + Mooney Architecture draws inspiration from the Japanese wabi-sabi aesthetic to ensure it’s nestled harmoniously into its rugged canyon landscape in Salt Lake City. The contemporary home, known as the Wabi-Sabi residence, is comprised…
Seeking to forge a symbiotic relationship between architecture and nature, Aleš Fiala has designed Gurdau Winery with an extensive curved green roof to harmoniously embed the building into its undulating landscape. Situated among the fields and vineyards in Kurdějov village…
Inspired by Canadian farmyard buildings, StudioAC has completed a solar-orientated, metal-clad home on the forested Bruce Peninsula, complete with a sky-gazing platform. Just a few hours north of Toronto, the site’s stunning natural elements led the architectural ethic that prioritised…
Finding new ways to be inventive with a minimal palette, Of Architecture has created a pared-back home for a creative couple in the seaside town of Newquay in Cornwall. Esplanade House meets the brief from the owners, a surfer and…
With a sustainable building approach, Loader Monteith has carefully crafted Equine House with an efficient floor plan and structure, which forms a strong connection to its South Lanarkshire site. Black-stained larch cladding and a striking extruded aluminium window frame characterise…
Appels Architekten has created a façade of alternating glass and slatted wood for a playful, sculptural home set against the lush green landscape of the Bavarian Forest in Germany. The prefabricated Wooden House by the Lake is expressed as a…
Exemplifying sustainable living on a minimal footprint, Court Fort by Compartment S4 is designed as a living-working space for an urban farmer in India. It’s a context sensitive project which aims to forge strong connections between the built form and…
Testing new ideas and ways to use concrete-free construction, emerging architecture practice ByOthers has hand-built their own Garden Studio in Peckham, South London. The Garden Studio, positioned at the rear of a terraced plot, is characterised by the angular geometry…
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…
