The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Sam Tisdall Architects reconfigures 1920s semi-detached cottage in Cambridge
The London-based practice has clad both the front and rear asymmetric extension in cedar
House
The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Caruso St John reworks house in Swiss village
Originally a restaurant-cum-hotel, this holiday home now includes a two-storey salon for use as an exhibition and concert venue
Black to basics: Studio Bark house in rural Suffolk
The practice turned to traditional agricultural building typologies to win planning consent under Paragraph 79 for this off-grid contemporary home, writes Fran Williams. Photography Lenny Codd
Hidden depths: id architecture’s country-house-clause building in Lincolnshire
While its public face is an apparently modest Cor-ten clad barn, id architecture’s Barrow House in the Lincolnshire Wolds contains an extensive half-buried lower section, writes Rob Wilson. Photography Andy Haslem
Níall McLaughlin’s lavish country house in Hampshire
Níall McLaughlin Architects has created an ambitious and opulent country house – but might it have benefited from a more restrictive brief? wonders Rob Wilson. Photography Nick Kane
Mikhail Riches in Norwich: Passivhaus for the mass market
The Goldsmith Street development for Norwich City Council, due to complete this summer, shows that Passivhaus can lend itself to successful urban infill and placemaking, writes Hattie Hartman. Photography Tim Crocker / Mikhail Riches
Marta Nowicka completes end-of-garden house in east London
The 111m² three-level house sits on the site of a former garage at the end of a garden
Jørn Utzon’s Ahm House restored by Coppin Dockray
The architect has reinstated a crafted element to Utzon’s only UK project, a Grade II-listed house in Hertfordshire
Hampstead flat opened up in £300k refurb by Urban Projects Bureau
This project for furniture designer clients incorporates a simple palette of materials – including a line of marble-topped joinery tying spaces together
Hurley and Hughes’ Kentish house draws on agricultural vernacular
The new-build dwelling in Kent, which has been entered in AJ Small Projects 2019, was built for £140,000