Kirkwood McCarthy adds zinc-clad garden wing to north London house
Kirkwood McCarthy has added a black zinc-clad wing to the rear of a London house, creating a light-filled living space that sits between the garden and a new courtyard. More
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Jo Cowen Architects transforms Victorian bakery in London into 12 factory-inspired homes
Jo Cowen Architects has converted a 19th-century bakery complex in south London into housing, featuring glazed brickwork, cast-iron columns and industrial-style glazing (+ slideshow). More
Denizen Works adds burnt wood cladding to Modernist house in London's Highgate
Charred larch slats now cover the exterior of this Modernist house in north London, thanks to a "macabre" upgrade intended by architecture studio Denizen Works to reference the nearby Highgate Cemetery (+ slideshow) More
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Rugged flint walls contrast dark cedar gables of House 19 by Jestico and Whiles
Dark-stained cedar gables contrast with knapped flint walls at this English countryside house, designed by London-based Jestico and Whiles for one of the firm's directors (+ slideshow). More
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Hostem's New Road Residence is a guesthouse that includes a "lifestyle minibar"
London fashion store Hostem has launched its first guesthouse – a refurbished Georgian house with furniture from Pierre Jeanneret, Faye Toogood and Max Lamb, and accessories that guests can buy (+ slideshow). More
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Loyn & Co builds "earth shelter" that nestles against a Gloucestershire hillside
Glazed courtyards puncture the expansive grass roof of this English countryside house by Loyn & Co, which is in the running for both the Stirling Prize and the RIBA House of the Year award (+ slideshow). More
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Robert and Jessica Barker build trio of London houses including live-work space for themselves
Brick piers frame the double-height windows of these three houses that husband-and-wife team Robert and Jessica Barker have slotted behind a row of Victorian terraces in southeast London (+ slideshow). More
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Old ambulance station converted into holiday home by Marta Nowicka & Co
Marta Nowicka & Co has transformed a former St John's Ambulance Station in East Sussex, England, to create a family retreat featuring exposed brick walls and industrial-style finishes (+ slideshow). More
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Riverside house by Sandy Rendel Architects contrasts weathering steel with concrete and glass
This riverside house in southeast England was designed by Sandy Rendel Architects with an upper storey clad entirely in weathering steel mesh, and a base of exposed concrete and glass (+ slideshow). More
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Britain's best new houses revealed in RIBA House of the Year 2016 award longlist
The 20 houses vying for this year's RIBA House of the Year award have been announced, including a forest home for a pair of artists, a London residence covered in mirrors and a cluster of cabins in Dungeness (+ slideshow). More
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Bennetts Associates creates contemporary stone and zinc country house in Cumbria
British studio Bennetts Associates has completed a house in a historic English town that is partly set into its sloping site and features a material palette chosen to complement the surrounding architecture (+ slideshow). More
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Architects including Mecanoo and Studio Weave propose solutions to Britain's housing crisis
Walter Segal-inspired cottages, co-living and custom-built terraces are among the solutions to Britain's housing crisis proposed in an exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London (+ slideshow). More
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Giles Pike Architects completes timber-clad house for a tiny London plot
A narrow window extends up to the roof of this chapel-like wooden house in southwest London, bringing light into a compact interior that is partly sunken below ground (+ slideshow). More
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Winners in beautiful house contest include marble walls and underground rooms
Three fantasy house plans have been selected as the winners of the Design a Beautiful House competition: a marble-clad mansion, a subterranean lakeside dwelling and a linear property with faceted bays. More
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Guy Hollaway Architects completes seaside houses reminiscent of British beach huts
These seaside houses in Margate, England, feature pitched roofs intended to resemble traditional beach huts, and fully glazed gable ends that make the most of the sea views (+ slideshow). More
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John Pawson's Life House is a Welsh countryside retreat built from dark and light bricks
London designer John Pawson has completed the seventh property in Alain de Botton's Living Architecture series: a Welsh valley retreat with a dark skin and a pale interior (+ slideshow). More
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Dallas Pierce Quintero arranges small London home around four courtyards
Angled bricks create three-dimensional zigzags across the walls of this London house, which architects office Dallas Pierce Quintero built on a tiny infill plot in east London (+ slideshow). More
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Herringbone patterns feature inside angular house extension by Platform 5
London architecture studio Platform 5 has added a cranked extension to a Victorian house in Hackney, featuring a herringbone-patterned dining table that matches the parquet flooring. More
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Threefold Architects transforms workshop and shop to create combined gallery and home
Threefold Architects has combined a Victorian workshop and an old shop unit in east London to create a home and gallery for an art curator (+ slideshow). More
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Baca completes flood-resilient home beside an Oxfordshire brook
This larch-clad residence by floating architecture specialists Baca Architects is raised above its flood-prone site in Oxfordshire, England, on wooden blocks and an elevated deck (+ slideshow). More
