Homes and housing

Top 5: Building stories 2021

Have another look at the building studies you loved best this year

Let it snow: Brown and Brown’s thickly cloaked Lower Tullochgrue house

House at Aviemore has big cosy views of the ski slopes

One of three courtyards running along the home’s deep plan, which help blur the distinction between inside and outside.

Scandi comes to Scotland at McGinlay Bell’s Bearsden House

House reflects the influences of a trip to see Aalto’s work

Georgian revival: house restored and resurrected as two inventive flats

ROAR Architects makes two handsome homes from a derelict shell

Cowper Griffith’s Marsh Edge House works on many levels

Much of the charm of this quirky and engaging house is a result of its Norfolk floodplain location

Enjoyably eccentric: David Kohn’s Red House

David Kohn blends playfulness and pragmatism in an arts and crafts-inspired family house

Key Worker Housing, Eddington, Cambridge

Stanton Williams for University of Cambridge, North West Cambridge Development

SLETH’s copper-clad and Douglas fir-lined Author’s House

A house for a writer, what book does it conjure up?

Crafted facades distinguish new Hackney housing by Henley Halebrown

Rich facades add dignity and heft to the street

Barn reborn: 31/44 Architects’ conversion of a Norfolk grain store

The Class Q house is an inventive mix of materials and use of space – half water, half home inside

Rising above the noise: Emily Greeves and Bernd Schmutz’s south-west London housing

A new-build apartment building unlocks a challenging traffic-bound site in south-west London

Guttfield Architecture’s Cherry Tree House reinvents the rural extension

Guttfield Architecture’s Cherry Tree House in full bloom

Every little infill helps solve the housing shortage

Bell Phillips on what informs its infill projects

Kuba and Pilař house visualises a new view of Czech city Znojmo

Modern family house in historic Znojmo fits right into its forest riverside setting

Studio Bua's cultural retreat embodies the sound of silence

Every detail of these buildings in Iceland has a story to tell

Jonathan Hendry Architects' beach house refurbishment is worth its salt

Scruffy Lincolnshire holiday home becomes a thing of austere beauty

Piers Taylor warms up with a domestic metal jacket

Home’s insulating over-layer improves comfort and reframes views

Terrace ‘do-up’ becomes complete rebuild as architect’s own home

Why demolition was best option for Victorian house of horrors

Surman Weston plays clever games with the conventional house form

Steel exoskeleton allows visual gymnastics as form melts away

Concertina-wall housing defies canalside aesthetic

Red brick, crinkle crankle design unfolds in Bow’s waterside housing

Devon’s latest ancient Roman villa

McLean Quinlan’s ‘energy plus’ home follows classic design parameters

Local landscape and vernacular shape Polish home

Black barn typology turned to make artists’ home and workshop

Belgian folly steps down into the unknown

What’s lurking in the garden shed?

Stonecrop, Rutland

Featherstone Young for private client

East Midlands RIBA Regional Awards Shortlist 2020

Seven projects, six typologies show range of region's reach

Samarkand, Great Missenden

Napier Clarke Architects for private client

Push-Pull House, Amersham

Cullinan Studio for private client

Oak Tree Passivhaus, Newcastle upon Tyne

MawsonKerr Architects for Shawm with MawsonKerr Concept Architecture

Bumpers Oast

Bumpers Oast, Kent

Bumpers Oast, Kent

Hove House

Hove House

Hove House

Sumner House, Sevenoaks

Sumner House, Sevenoaks

Sumner House, Sevenoaks

North East RIBA Regional Awards Shortlist 2020

Newcastle's first Certified Passivhaus leads the pack

The Narula House, Wargrave

John Pardey Architects for private client

The Montague House, Hayling Island

John Pardey Architects for private client

House for Theo and Oskar, Surrey

House for Theo and Oskar, Surrey

House for Theo and Oskar, Surrey

KH House, west Berkshire

Delvendahl Martin Architects for private client