The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Campbell & Co remodels Victorian lodge house in Dorking
The practice has extended and remodelled an Arts and Crafts house in Surrey, using traditional terracotta hung tiles
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Oliver Leech completes prefab timber-framed house in Cotswolds
The five-bedroom home set on a sloping site overlooking a rural village replaces an existing bungalow on the 0.4ha site
Unknown Works refocuses London townhouse with dusty-pink extension
The four-storey semi-detached terrace house has been opened up with living spaces giving out onto a stepped and terraced garden modelled with Barragán-like pigmented surfaces
Bureau de Change completes contemporary take on Metroland house
Cast House, a new-build bay-windowed house in a suburban street in Clapham shares the visual pattern-book language of 1930s houses
Jonathan Tuckey Design restores Italian farmhouse
Jonathan Tuckey Design has a restored a 19th century farmstead in the Piemonte region of northern Italy, transforming the hillside ensemble into a sunlit home and studio for a fashion designer
David Leech reworks engineer’s house with playful Hi-Tech touches
This refurbishment makes tongue-in-cheek reference to ideas of structural efficiency and redundancy with elaborate, bright-yellow steel ceiling trusses inspired by Foster’s 1982 Renault Distribution Centre
Astrain Scheldt reworks and extends Hackney house
This renovation of a five-storey house within the Well Street Common Conservation Area includes a new Crittall-glazed extension
TYPE remodels Hampstead flat inspired by Hammershøi paintings
The refurbishment of this garden flat in north London employs the muted tones seen in the domestic interiors depicted by 19th-century Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi
Corstorphine & Wright converts Second World War bunker into holiday home
An abandoned 1939 concrete structure in Ringstead on the Jurassic Coast has been reworked into a 76m² subterranean holiday home
Patalab completes retrofit of mews house in Marylebone
Patalab has completed a project for a young family involving extensive renovation work, including a basement extension and façade remodelling