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Parallel Studio creates Mariam’s Library for young students in Zanzibar

May 5, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture practice Parallel Studio has punctured the white walls of this children’s library in Zanzibar with small holes, providing natural ventilation and casting shadows across books inside. Named Mariam’s Library, the building occupies an empty plot in the village of Mwanyanya and is designed as an “inviting and inclusive environment conducive to learning, creativity, and

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Unknown Works revamps co-founder’s “cramped” Victorian home in London

April 30, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture studio Unknown Works has renovated a terraced London house called Oasis, adding a side and rear extension to create a flexible interior and maximise natural light. The Victorian home in Kentish Town is owned by Unknown Works’ co-founder Theo Games Petrophilos, who wanted to update its interior with a large open-plan living area suitable

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Tuckey Design Studio restores original character of Old Chapel in Devon

April 27, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

London practice Tuckey Design Studio has revamped a house in a converted chapel in Devon, England, revealing and restoring the building’s original features. To celebrate its ecclesiastic history, the Old Chapel house has been reworked to reverse “characterless” alterations made during its conversion in the 1970s and later in the 1990s. This involved stripping back

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Alexander Hills Architects converts Norfolk farmhouse into accessible family home

April 5, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

London studio Alexander Hills Architects has transformed Old Rectory Farm, a house in Norfolk, into an accessible residence with level-access living spaces. Old Rectory Farm has been extended and adapted to enable the family’s father, who uses a wheelchair for mobility, to continue living in the home “with ease and dignity”. Alexander Hills Architects has

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Knox Bhavan transforms Victorian villa in London into “low-energy forever home”

April 4, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Love Walk II is a Victorian villa in London that has been retrofitted and extended by architecture studio Knox Bhavan to create a home in which its owners can comfortably grow older. Located in the conservation area of Camberwell Grove, Love Walk II was updated to improve both the habitability and energy efficiency of its

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The DHaus Company revamps London house with butterfly-roof extension

March 25, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. The DHaus Company reconfigured and extended the ground floor of the home to improve its dining area while providing more private living spaces for the client’s teenage children.

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Norm Architects references Japanese temples for Sjöparken retreat in Sweden

March 11, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Danish studio Norm Architects has created a retreat for gastro-tourists on an old farm in Sweden, positioning seven wooden villas around a lake and using glass corridors to amplify “connections with the surroundings”. Sjöparken is designed to accommodate the rise in gastro-tourists visiting the area, following the transformation of the farm into one of Sweden’s

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Oslo Works perches The Hotspot sauna on coast of Norway

March 9, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Wooden shingles cloak this stilted sauna, which architecture studio Oslo Works has elevated over the rocky shore of Nesodden peninsula, Norway, for the local community. Named The Hotspot, the wooden structure is a short ferry ride from the Norwegian capital Oslo and is designed to be adaptable, environmentally conscious and low maintenance. It is the

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“Fried-egg” canopy tops Sunny Side Up extension by THISS Studio

February 20, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture practice THISS Studio has reconfigured the dark interior of an interwar house in east London, adding an extension characterised by timber joinery and a curved aluminium roof. Designed to have “a fun and unconventional presence”, the extension was conceived by THISS Studio as though it were a piece of furniture rather than a conventional

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​​Fran Silvestre Arquitectos references pathways for winding Sabater House in Spain

February 17, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Spanish studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has created a minimalist white house in Alicante, which winds through the landscape to enhance its relationship with the outdoors. Named Sabater House, the Spanish dwelling unfolds through a series of intersecting, elongated forms that ascend upwards over its 780-square-metre site. Its slim volumes adapt to the site’s natural topography,

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