The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
PAD Studio completes house in the New Forest National Park
Gardener’s Cottage is an eco-conscious four-bed family home with connections to its surrounding landscape
House
The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Round the bend: Ivy Street by Sam Jacob
Sam Jacob Studio has completed its Ivy Street house-cum-playgroup project, seven years in the making, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Johan Dehlin
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
Will Gamble fuses contemporary and traditional in Victorian house makeover
Will Gamble Architects has combined gridded forms and decorative mouldings in a reworking of a Victorian house in Clapham, south London
Case study: Coast House by Hudson Architects
This single-storey family home near the north Norfolk coast is arranged as a series of 'pavilions' and uses a palette that combines local materials with contemporary tones and textures. Photography by Joakim Borén
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
Building study: Red House, Dorset, by David Kohn Architects
David Kohn Architects’ Red House is a knowing dialogue of traditional and modern English domestic architecture, bespoke-fitted to its clients’ needs and lifestyle. Photography by Will Pryce
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
IF_DO completes brick and oak-clad Suffolk beach house
The design of IF_DO’s new 320m² beach house in Thorpeness, which sits within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, is intended to connect it to the surrounding landscape while offering first-floor views out to sea