The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Pricegore extends Brutalist townhouse in Kensington
The practice has reconfigured a 1960s house, improving thermal performance while using raw materials throughout to amplify the qualities of the original architecture
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The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Coffey completes three-volume timber-clad home on Dorset coast
The three-bedroom house is composed of three intersecting pitched-roof volumes and has views out over the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site
Stanton Williams completes £38m overhaul of Rhodes Trust HQ
The Grade II* listed Arts and Crafts building within an Oxford conservation area has been transformed to create additional space for Rhodes Scholars
Ström Architects completes mid-century modern-inspired house in Cheltenham
Case House is a simple white brick and render house, half-hidden behind an existing brick wall, in a designated character area of the Gloucestershire town’s conservation area
Campbell & Co remodels Victorian lodge house in Dorking
The practice has extended and remodelled an Arts and Crafts house in Surrey, using traditional terracotta hung tiles
Oliver Leech completes prefab timber-framed house in Cotswolds
The five-bedroom home set on a sloping site overlooking a rural village replaces an existing bungalow on the 0.4ha site
Unknown Works refocuses London townhouse with dusty-pink extension
The four-storey semi-detached terrace house has been opened up with living spaces giving out onto a stepped and terraced garden modelled with Barragán-like pigmented surfaces
Bureau de Change completes contemporary take on Metroland house
Cast House, a new-build bay-windowed house in a suburban street in Clapham shares the visual pattern-book language of 1930s houses
Jonathan Tuckey Design restores Italian farmhouse
Jonathan Tuckey Design has a restored a 19th century farmstead in the Piemonte region of northern Italy, transforming the hillside ensemble into a sunlit home and studio for a fashion designer
David Leech reworks engineer’s house with playful Hi-Tech touches
This refurbishment makes tongue-in-cheek reference to ideas of structural efficiency and redundancy with elaborate, bright-yellow steel ceiling trusses inspired by Foster’s 1982 Renault Distribution Centre