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Double-height extension brings light to Melbourne’s Lantern House

February 27, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Lantern House by Timmins+Whyte Architects

Architecture practice Timmins + Whyte has added a double-height gabled extension to a 19th-century house in Melbourne, illuminating its formerly light-starved living spaces. Originally built in 1876, Lantern House formerly had a dark and poky interior that meant its owners – a young couple with two children and a dog – were longing for a

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Reddaway Architects adds timber extension to Melbourne home

February 26, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Carlton House by Reddaway Architects in Melbourne, Australia

A folding screen of battens shields a timber-clad extension to an Edwardian-style home in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton North, Australia, designed by Reddaway Architects. The building, which used to be a school in 1942, has a narrow gabled frontage of red brick. It had undergone numerous alterations in the intervening years, and local heritage

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OMA unveils “cliff-like” headquarters for SNCB in Brussels

February 25, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
SNCB Headquarters by OMA in Belgium

OMA has revealed its plans to renovate and extend three vacant railway buildings in Brussels to create an office for Belgium train operator SNCB. The proposal will create workspaces for 4,000 employees of SNCB, otherwise known as the National Railway Company of Belgium, beside the Brussels-South train station. Designed by OMA with Jaspers-Eyers to contrast with the

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Hernan Landolfo tops courtyard house in Argentina with glass extension

February 22, 2020 James Brillon 0
Casa Juramento by Hernan Landolfo

Argentinian architect Hernan Landolfo has extended an apartment in Buenos Aires and reorganised the living spaces around a double-height atrium with an olive tree growing in the centre. Landolfo was enlisted by his clients to expand their living space to include a home office. He determined that the best way to increase the useable area

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Archer + Braun adds glass and stone extension to grand Edinburgh villa

February 18, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Edinburgh Pavilion by Archer + Braun

Architecture studio Archer + Braun has renovated a Victorian villa in Edinburgh, adding a glazed extension with red limestone cladding. Called Edinburgh Pavilion, the minimal extension was designed as a deliberate contrast to the existing Grade B-listed structure. The main house is laid out as a series of formal, large and well-decorated rooms. Archer +

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Archer + Braun adds glass and stone extension to grand Edinburgh villa

February 18, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Edinburgh Pavilion by Archer + Braun

Architecture studio Archer + Braun has renovated a Victorian villa in Edinburgh, adding a glazed extension with red limestone cladding. Called Edinburgh Pavilion, the minimal extension was designed as a deliberate contrast to the existing Grade B-listed structure. The main house is laid out as a series of formal, large and well-decorated rooms. Archer +

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Gundry & Ducker gives White Rabbit House makeover with bold greens and terrazzo

February 12, 2020 India Block 0
White Rabbit House by Gundry + Ducker

Archways, chequerboard terrazzo, and sherbet hues feature in this 1970s house in London, overhauled by architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. The local practice designed the renovation and extension for White Rabbit House, which is set in a terrace of neo-Georgian houses built in Canonbury, Islington in the 1970s. Gundry & Ducker could not add an

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Over The Edge is a minimalist house with a cantilevered corner

February 11, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
Over The Edge minimalist house by Jonathan Burlow

The ground appears to have fallen away beneath this minimal house, designed by British architect Jonathan Burlow in Kent.  Over the Edge is the first completed project by Burlow, who recently set up his studio in nearby Folkestone. It takes its name from a subtle cantilever in one corner of the building. From some angles it’s barely

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Bonba Studio encases extension in Barcelona in white metal mesh

February 10, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Family home by Bonba Studio

White metal mesh filters daylight into the terrace of this extension of a 1950s detached home in Barcelona by Bonba Studio. A large, open dining area built in the extension overlooks a patio and pool. The extension has been subtly differentiated from the original white plaster building both inside and out. “Given the structure and

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Shift Architecture Urbanism adapts historic Dutch monastery for ageing residents

February 8, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Oude Dijk housing by Shift in Tilburg

Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism has extended the Oude Dijk monastery in Tilburg with a brick extension with a nursing home and apartments for its residents, the Sisters of Charity. The four-storey block extends from the south-eastern edge of the historic monastery, which date back to the mid-19th century, This extension provides 24 care home apartments

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