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MATA extends and adds garden studio to London terraced house
This rework of practice director Dan Marks’ own house was partly driven by his family’s need for more space and individual autonomy with two children now reaching adolescence
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Jonathan Burlow designs house extension with single monolithic column
The House With One Column, in the Faversham conservation area, was inspired by the open undercroft of the Kent town’s guildhall
Generous is beautiful: Studio Bark’s radical low-impact Para 80 experiment
Nest House, built with Studio Bark’s open-source U-Build timber flatpack system, is small-scale, circular construction which, says Ewa Effiom, throws down a sustainability challenge to architects at large. Photography by Jim Stephenson, Andy Billman and Studio Bark
Whittaker Parsons completes home for downsizing couple in Peckham
Forming a bookend to an existing terrace, the 88m2 home, costing £350,000, sits on a narrow site between a substation and the clients’ former family home
Sanya Polescuk Architects reworks mews house with more light and colour
The project in Belsize Park, north London, is focused around a reconfigured stairwell and ‘bright and punchy’ kitchen with bespoke joinery and terrazzo worktops
Michael Kendrick Architects creates Sussex woodland retreat
Looking Glass Lodge, a cedar-clad holiday let, is set discreetly within a natural clearing in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Giles Reid Architects remodels Bermondsey coach house
The practice has reconfigured a two-storey 18th-century building, hemmed in by later development, so as to maximise light – both natural and reflected – to its interiors
Unagru reworks a house for a cellist in London
The project, which involved the refurbishment and extension of a Victorian terraced house, has seen the creation of a top-lit living space that is also designed for music practice
Pensaer London completes East Dulwich extension
Emerging practice Pensaer London has completed a home extension in south London’s East Dulwich using hand-crafted materials
rhp completes Passivhaus student accommodation for Cambridge college
R H Partnerships Architects (rhp) has completed a sustainable new heart for Lucy Cavendish College in Cambridge, providing student rooms, social spaces and a café