The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Novak Hiles lodges plans for house in Barnet back garden
Novak Hiles Architects has submitted plans for a three-bedroom house on a ‘oversized and underutilised’ back garden plot in suburban Barnet, north London
Tag: House
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
Case study: Spruce House and Studio by ao-ft
The new-build home and self-contained garden studio was constructed from cross-laminated timber (CLT) on an infill site in Walthamstow, east London. Photography by Rory Gardiner
IF_DO wins approval for limestone and oak Suffolk house
IF_DO Architects has won planning consent for a new-build house in east Suffolk with a limestone and oak structural frame
In practice: Studio Weave’s pink-concrete house in South Korea
Studio Weave director Je Ahn explains how his practice went about designing a clifftop family home in South Korea on an off-grid site
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
Corstorphine & Wright converts Second World War bunker into holiday home
An abandoned 1939 concrete structure in Ringstead on the Jurassic Coast has been reworked into a 76m² subterranean holiday home
Case study: Kingsfield Pond by Jonathan Hendry Architects
A poplar tree woodland was the starting point for designing this Lincolnshire house, configured as a series of separate buildings. Photography by David Grandorge
Interior reflections: Graphic House by Office S&M
The first in a series of articles on interiors looks at the refurbishment of an Edwardian home in east London, transformed to reflect the tastes of its graphic-designer owner
West End producer given 18 months to knock down ‘fortress-like’ rural home
The government has given the owners of a huge Norfolk house 18 months to knock it down, after they lost an appeal for retrospective planning permission