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Studio Jayga completes arched house extension in Essex
Studio Jayga Architects has completed ‘nnU House’, a £250,000 kitchen extension for a young family in Loughton, Essex
Small project & extension
House extensions and refurbishments, plus other small-scale or budget projects undertaken by architects. Find out more about AJ Small Projects here
Oliver Leech extends detached inter-war house in Surrey
Oliver Leech Architects has given the Epsom house a new sense of identity by adding a hipped-roof, double-storey rear extension for £320,000
Dominic McKenzie Architects channels Metroland in Hertfordshire house
The 1950s house has been remodelled with a rear extension of stacked creasing tiles, around which wraps a large L-shaped reflecting pool
Erbar Mattes Architects extends former pub into five-bed duplex
Erbar Mattes has created a 5-bed duplex within The Blockmakers Arms, a 19th-century Grade II-listed former pub in the Regent’s Canal Conservation Area in London
Daab Design completes forest cabin in south of France
This timber-clad retreat near to Marseille cost just £80,000 to build. Today (Friday, 4 February) is the last day to enter AJ Small Projects 2022 if you have recently completed a project like this!
Nikjoo extends and reconfigures 1930s terrace house
The project in Brockley, South London has created an open-plan ground-floor space and uses hand-made and reclaimed materials
McCloy + Muchemwa creates colourful self-build garden shed in Norwich
40 under 40 practice McCloy + Muchemwa has transformed a dilapidated outbuilding into a greenhouse and workspace for self-build clients at their Norwich home for just £6,000
Loader Monteith adds ceramics studio in makeover of architect’s Victorian villa
Loader Monteith has re-unified a previously subdivided 19th-century merchant’s house in Glasgow’s Lenzie Conservation Area and added a pottery studio
Flower Michelin remodels composer’s London townhouse, adding basement studio
The practice has remodelled and extended a four-storey terraced London townhouse for the film and TV composer and his young family
Magri Williams completes handmade brick-clad extension in north London
The extension uses a minimal but tonally warm material palette, including an oak portal marking the threshold into the existing house