Oliver Leech Architects is a British architecture practice crafting homes that celebrate life, light and materials, while responding to every brief and context with sensitivity and enthusiasm. After launching in 2016, Oliver Leech Architects have been recognised by the British…
Studio Ecesis has carefully guided the silhouette of a family home around the historic limbs of oak trees native to this part of Sonoma County in California. Responding to the site directly, an uneven array of metal roof forms sprawl…
Specialising in the crafting of prestigious contemporary residential projects, Gregory Phillips Architects use a carefully considered approach to unlock a site’s full potential. Whether the project is an extension, renovation or complete new-build, each outcome is transformative while catering to…
Larissa Johnston Architects is a London based, RIBA Chartered Practice delivering intelligent, original and aspirational design solutions. The practice specialises in high quality residential projects including creative reworks of existing buildings and new build houses. Projects derive from the cohesive…
This year, the Biophilic Design Conference will take place on the 12th November at London’s Barbican Centre. With the countdown officially on, we sit down with the Journal of Biophilic Design’s founder, Vanessa Champion, to chat about the specifics of…
Mailen Design is an award-winning architecture practice specialising in residential architecture with studios in London and Oxfordshire. Approaching each project with a collaborative spirit, the practice offers a range of services from new build projects to historic restorations; resulting in…
It was the university tutor of Johan Hybschmann and Margaret Bursa – co-founders of architecture and interior design studio Archmongers – who “actually suggested that we work together,” The architects tell enki. After graduating from The Bartlett UCL in 2009…
In Volume 62 of enki (you can pick up a copy here if you haven’t already), we explore the accelerating momentum of the rammed earth movement with a look at the latest venture from Vosjes Architecture. Now, we delve further…
Today the RIBA announce its 26 winners of the 2024 RIBA National Awards for architecture. Since 1966 the awards have recognised and commended the very best and most inspiring of architectural pursuits from around the UK. Featured in this year’s…
Established in 2000, Anderson Orr is a RIBA Chartered, multidisciplinary studio specialising in high-end private residential work. Based across three studios in London, Oxford and Henley-on-Thames, the firm covers everything from country estates and contemporary homes, to specialist conversions and…
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…
Weaving the new into the old, DGN Studio has adaptively reused and extended an East London terraced house putting materiality at the forefront. The owners of Magpie house, keen collectors of vintage objects and mid-century furniture, approached the architecture studio…
The Door Co have come up with solutions to entirely seal and protect a home on Camber Sands beach, overcoming challenges posed by the environmental considerations of the site. Perched on the beach, directly backing on to the natural sand…
Little Brownings, a reconfigured 1960s terraced house in Forest Hill, has been named Home of the Year 2022 in the Don’t Move, Improve! Awards. Selected from a 15-strong shortlist, London-based architectural studio Archmongers’ project Little Brownings impressed the judges with its “exceptional attention…
The Edwardian Franklin Road House in Auckland, New Zealand, has been uplifted and brought into the 21st century with a monolithic extension and contemporary redesign. Drawing on the principles of modern architecture, interior designer Katie Lockhart and Jack McKinney Architects,…
