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AJ Small Projects winner: Croft Lodge Studio by Kate Darby & David Connor
Architect Kate Darby and designer David Connor describe how they preserved a 17th-century cottage in Leominster, Herefordshire, and turned it into a studio – for £160,000
House
The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Building study: Finkernagel Ross perfects the minor details
Finkernagel Ross’s razor-sharp contemporary addition to a listed detached property in Hampstead is strangely suited to its stout Victorian host, writes Jay Merrick
Building study: AY Architects lets the light shine in
With its Dartmouth Park House makeover, AY Architects has turned a gloomy warren into a bright and airy family home, writes Robert Bevan
Building study: Arts and Crafts redux by Napier Clarke
At Pennycroft, Buckinghamshire, Napier Clarke’s five-bedroom house has updated William Morris’s legacy, says Owen Hopkins
James Gorst’s Sandpipers house is a raucous celebration of family life
Building study: This timber-framed Surrey home successfully marries a contemporary aesthetic with the everyday reality of sticky fingers, says James Hogan
Building study: Coffey’s design for living
Coffey’s thoughtful Modern Detached could well serve as an exemplar for the wider private house market, writes Catherine Slessor
Richard Meier’s very big house in the country
Building study: Sleek über-Modernism distinguishes the US architect’s first house in the UK
Moxon completes overhaul of 18th century Aberdeenshire farmhouse
Moxon Architects has restored and extended this formerly derelict farmhouse in the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands
Ström Architects unwraps £750k cantilevered Dorset house
Ström Architects has taken the wraps off this £750,000 house in Swanage, Dorset, which features a cantilever
pH+ Architects embraces ‘indoor/outdoor living’ concept in Sydney house
London and Sydney-based practice pH+ has completed this large extension to a beach-side cottage in Australia featuring several sections which open up to the elements