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Oliver Leech Architects adds skylit extension to London home

January 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. Located in the Poet’s Corner conservation area of Herne Hill, the studio was tasked with retaining the late 19th-century building’s character while opening up its “disconnected

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Skylit home offers a “seamless transition between indoor and outdoor living”

January 26, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Funnel-shaped concrete skylights illuminate a plant-filled courtyard at the centre of this home in Bangalore, India, which has been designed by local studio A Threshold to “blur boundaries between the inside and outside”. Named Ineffable Light, the four-storey family home is located on a tight urban plot with neighbouring buildings on three sides, which required

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Translucent glazing and concrete encase compact Japanese home by IGArchitects

January 25, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Large translucent windows bring a lantern-like quality to Check Patterned House, a concrete home in Saitama, Japan, completed by local studio IGArchitects. Designed for a family of three with a limited budget, the home occupies a 70-square-metre site and is planned around two large concrete blocks. These blocks provide structural support and contain service spaces,

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Estudio Albar completes cork-clad Casa Eñe overlooking Spanish national park

January 24, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish practice Estudio Albar has used cork cladding to help this home near Madrid blend in with the scrub-like landscape of a neighbouring national park. Named Casa Eñe, the home is located half an hour’s drive from the Spanish capital and was designed for clients who wanted a home that would have a minimal impact

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Fletcher Crane Architects creates red-brick home overlooking River Thames

January 23, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

UK studio Fletcher Crane Architects has completed Lowater, a house in Buckinghamshire comprising a group of red-brick forms that draw on the area’s traditional architecture. Lowater is located within a conservation area in the town of Marlow and sits alongside a church overlooking the River Thames. This led Fletcher Crane Architects to blend forms familiar

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Atelier Koma creates concrete chapel to offer “separation from the secular world”

January 21, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

An elevated box formed of exposed concrete forms the Meditation Chapel in Incheon, South Korea, designed by local studio Atelier Koma and architect Lee Eunsok. Located near the coast of Gangwha County, the chapel sits at the top of a site that slopes down towards the sea, hugged from behind by dense forest and mountains.

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Kaan Architecten adds “monumental” visitor centre to second world war cemetery

January 20, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Dutch studio Kaan Architecten has added a visitor centre to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, with a concrete form that references American memorial architecture. The only American cemetery on Dutch soil, the Netherlands American Cemetery (NEAC) was dedicated in 1960 across a 26.5-hectare site near Maastricht to commemorate soldiers who died in the second

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Moroccan riads inform London extension by Merrett Houmøller Architects and All & Nxthing

January 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Clay-plaster walls, exposed brickwork and tile floors aim to evoke a feeling of a traditional Moroccan home at this London house, overhauled by local studios Merrett Houmøller Architects and All & Nxthing. Merrett Houmøller Architects and interior designer All & Nxthing renovated and extended the Victorian home for clients who have travelled extensively to Morocco

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Vallet de Martinis Architectes designs assisted housing complex as “extension” of forest

January 17, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

French studio Vallet de Martinis Architectes has created an assisted living complex for the Joffre-Dupuytren Hospital beside a forest in the suburbs of Paris. Located at the edge of the hospital’s campus, the site sits between the Rue de l’Erminage, a main entrance to the town of Draveil and the Sénart Forest, of which Vallet

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“Robust and utilitarian” materials define infill home in Dublin by Gró Works

January 15, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Red brickwork and perforated metal panels bring an industrial feel to this compact infill home in Dublin, which has been completed by Irish architecture studio Gró Works. Located on Dublin’s southern perimeter, the home by Gró Works was designed to reflect both the nearby Victorian redbrick terraces and the more “utilitarian” quality of the backstreet

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