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Homes and housing

  1. Buildings

House of the Year 2024 shortlist: Plas Hendy Stable Block

Studio Brassica balances heritage and ecological obligations in its refurbished and extended arts and crafts building

31 October 2024

  1. Buildings

Pensaer’s Defoe Road house extension emphasises efficient rearrangement

The revitalisation of a north London Victorian terraced house prioritises the carefully considered repositioning of spaces while extending the building by less than three square metres

22 January 2025

  1. Intelligence

Roundtable: How to find more homes without building anew

Planners, architects and finance experts consider the need to provide more homes – and find great, sustainable opportunities by using the existing housing stock better and incentivising downsizing

15 November 2024

House extensions

Stacked slate renovation makes the most of house and garden
Recycled materials complement Georgian building and verdant garden
KAST Architects’ home conversion restores life to Cornish barns
How KAST made a light and airy home at Milk Moon Barn
Cool for cats: how Emil Eve’s extension made a light, relaxed home
Long light and warm wood invite calm lingering
Williams Griffiths upholds modernist ethos in Ferrings estate extension
Sympathetic addition to original home makes seamless extension
Gresford Architects extends and remodels Walthamstow house
Reorganising the layout made the terraced house better suited to modern family life, says Tom Gresford
Common Ground Workshop creates hidden oasis in end-of-terrace house
How a modest east London property was extended into Spitalfields House, merging interior and exterior spaces
AOC wraps a forest-inspired extension around a north-east London home
Gill Lambert and Geoff Shearcroft on adapting their Victorian semi to meet the needs of a family of five
Invisible Studio creates house extension for filmmaker and playwright
Piers Taylor talks about extending a Hampshire cottage to reconfigure the space and maximise the view
Sinclair Studios' addition introduces a lofty glasshouse feel
Glazed side return extension in verdant green steel brings light, life and lushness to a Clapham terrace
Grace Choi Architecture turns darkness into light with reinvented Newcastle home
Timber loggia creates connections and a delightful place to pause
James Alder takes a layered approach to Victorian extension
Brick and glass outbuildings inspire garden flat addition
Guttfield Architecture gives modernist makeover to 1960s brick box house
Practice director Fred Guttfield talks about transforming Weir Grove House in Berkshire
House extensions: thinking beyond the box
Reinventing the home: how to change lives as well as buildings
Robin Lee Architecture extends arts and crafts villa in Hampshire conservation area
The Avenue combines a contextually sensitive side extension and a glazed rear extension
Offroad vehicle inspires Fabric's geometric glass, zinc and aluminium extension
Shared ambition drives 'out of the ordinary' design
Yellow frieze marks out rear extension to Victorian east London house
Archmongers has updated a Victorian house in Dalston into a high-tech modern home featuring a new rear extension
Sussex cottage extension improves functionality while respecting historic charm
HAPA Architects has added modern design elements while retaining the cottage’s historic charm
Gianni Botsford’s Hampstead house complements Foster-designed extension
Reciprocal House complements a Foster-designed extension while replacing the original Victorian coach house
Civic’s glazed garden room uses the sun to heat and trees to shade
Civic co-founder Dan Jones on the ground-floor extension designed for his own family home
Transforming a mundane 20-year-old house into a modern Edwardian villa
Gundry + Ducker’s refurbishment and extension includes an entirely new facade that references the area’s older buildings
Extension to home in Norwich conservation area pays homage to traditional corbelling
Grafted’s debut project celebrates the original detailing of a house in Norwich’s Golden Triangle
Cantilevered terrace marks out Gillespie Yunnie’s extension to house on Dartmoor
Gillespie Yunnie adds a dynamic first-floor extension to a 20th-century house in Ashburton, Devon
Artefact adds a series of Caribbean-inspired living spaces to Surrey house
Artefact on its new wing for a detached home in Epsom that spurns open-plan living spaces
[Y/N] Studio prioritises nuance with its glass extension for a Victorian home
Attention to detail maintains individualism and intimacy in conservation-driven project
HAPA Architects restores grade II-listed home with sympathetic flint-faced extension
Conservation area sees new addition share materials palette of original house
Studio KAP adds metal-clad extension to Victorian villa in Glasgow
The frame-like character complements the solid presence of the existing sandstone building
Andre Kong Studio creates stepped brick loft to expand London house
The distinct brick loft is expressed as a series of three stepped volumes hosting a bedroom, study and bathroom
Delve Architects combines sawtooth roofed extension with 60s-style interiors
Groovy Roofy uses circular economy principles while meeting the clients’ wish for a playful 60s colour scheme
Artefact revamps and extends former council house in Islington
Pirouette House combines open-plan living with niches for individual activities
Selencky Parsons’ Old Apple Store addition doubles original footprint
The new structure’s form and material palette refer to those of the existing house in a contemporary way
District's canny, colourful extension wraps around ground floor flat
Colour Casing project in south east London provides flexible, light-filled spaces to the side and rear
Envelop's green-roofed volumes and reflections push the boundaries for back extensions in Hackney
Stainless steel panels and an oriel window set up a subtle intimacy between house and garden
Fieldwork's brick ribbon extension wraps up a bigger, better family home
Garden, facades and internal plan come together to make Fieldworks Architects' coherent home
Hollaway Studio’s weathered steel extension complements 18th-century Kent house
Upper Maxted uses rust-coloured steel to blend with its rural context
Coloured cement sets the tone at EBBA’s Cast House
Eco-cement and brick form the rough base for the upper level's material refinement
Larch-clad volume extends barn home into Bristol’s green belt
How Mitchell Eley Gould extended a house on green belt land to add a new kitchen and living area
Vernacular tiles front Bureau de Change’s unconventional extension
This unusually shaped rear extension to a north London semi accommodates a sunken living room
  1. Buildings

Stirling Prize 2024 shortlist: Park Hill Phase 2, Sheffield, by Mikhail Riches

With Park Hill’s listed concrete structure untouchable on the outside, and 37 different types of flat but no repeating cluster, Mikhail Riches found complex technical details defied a standardised approach, as Annalie Riches explains

30 July 2024

  1. Buildings

Langdale, Brampton, Cumbria

Mary Arnold-Forster Architects successfully fulfils the brief for a family house that balances simple practicality with an appreciation of its wild and beautiful setting, to win it a 2024 RIBA North West Award

30 May 2024

  1. Buildings

Farmworker's House, Bude

In Hugh Strange Architects’ deceptively simple design a home-grown Douglas fir roof structure is exposed throughout, something you can smell as well as see

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Claremont Road, Bath

James Grayley Architects unlocks an awkward site previously occupied by garages for a low-lying, part sunken home with a modest exterior, a strong spatial quality and an intimate, homely feel

22 May 2024