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Cathie Curran completes hempcrete-walled mews house in east London
Cathie Curran has completed a three-storey family house arranged as overlapping and interconnected spaces that are reflected in its gridded terracotta and Accoya wood façade
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The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Intervention Architecture completes arched extension in Birmingham
Wisteria House in Birmingham by local practice Intervention Architecture is a two-storey side extension with double-height void, designed for future trailing of wisteria to wrap around its façades
Creeper comforts: Giles Miller Studio completes house with trellis-like façade
Designed with consulting architects Outpost, the exterior of the four-bedroom house in Broadstairs, Kent, is composed of a metal latticework to encourage climbing plants to cover it
Interior reflections: Graphic House by Office S&M
The first in a series of articles on interiors looks at the refurbishment of an Edwardian home in east London, transformed to reflect the tastes of its graphic-designer owner
Canice Architects adapts 18th-century Irish school building into a house
This conservation project in County Tipperary, Ireland, turns a Recorded Irish Monument with colourful history into a family home
Studio McW completes rework of 18th-century Cambridgeshire house
This renovation of a traditional stone house includes three gabled extensions, picking up on the existing building’s proportions and local rural vernacular
Charles Holland Architects playfully retrofits east London terraced house
The house has been reworked as a modern family home, using colour and decorative details while avoiding the tropes of a typical 21st-century extension
IF_DO transforms listed Suffolk barn into gallery
The conversion features a series of interventions that are mostly free-standing, demountable and reversible to facilitate minimal impact on the building
Trewhela Williams channels Donald Judd in London mews conversion
This conversion of an under-used, uninsulated garage into a habitable space for a growing family, has improved daylighting, cross-ventilation and passive surveillance from the interior
Polysmiths completes cork-panelled house in east London
London-based studio Polysmiths has completed a timber-framed, three-bedroom house planned around three courtyards on an infill plot in Forest Gate