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Name Architects completes understated retrofit of Hackney terraced house
The refurbishment of a two-storey Victorian house in London Fields, including a kitchen extension, employs a warm, simple palette of materials
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Unknown Works completes minimalist home for its director in Kentish Town
A dark, poorly laid-out home has been transformed into a bright minimalist space with a new interior courtyard
NIKJOO and Flawk reimagine post-war terraced house in east London
NIKJOO has overhauled a post-war terraced house in Whitechapel, east London, for and with emerging creative developer Flawk
Markos Design Workshop completes prefabricated holiday cabin in Shropshire
The Monocoque Cabin project originated during the pandemic with the goal of integrating principles from the automotive industry into built environment design
Erbar Mattes completes timber framed home in Wimbledon
The low-energy, timber framed family home in south-west London is formed of three sculptural interconnected volumes
Tuckey Design Studio remodels house in converted Devon chapel
The practice – formerly Jonathan Tuckey Design – has reworked and stripped back a 1970s retrofit to create a four-bedroom family home
Grafted ‘reinvigorates’ Victorian terrace house in Norwich
The refurbishment of this five-bedroomed detached house includes an extension clad in handmade, precast panels fabricated by new practice Grafted
Knox Bhavan retrofits early Victorian villa in Camberwell as low-energy home
The renovation and extension preserves the house’s period elegance while creating a warm low-energy home for the clients to ‘age in place’
Architecture Office reworks listed cottage in Cornwall
The early 19th-century house has been extended, restored and rationalised to create a design-focused holiday let
Sandy Rendel Architects completes colonnaded villa in South Downs
The five-bedroom house near Pulborough in West Sussex is a modern take on the villa, set within sweeping parklands