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Faceted roof casts zigzagging shadows over London house extension

October 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Wooden Roof by Tsurata Architects

Tsuruta Architects has topped a conservatory extension in London with a faceted timber and glass roof that casts zigzag shadows over a wood-lined dining space. Called Wooden Roof, the extension to a Grade II-listed house is clad in planks of charred wood. Traditionally, glass conservatories are built pitched roofs to give views of the sky while

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Intervention Architecture adds cedar-clad garden room to Birmingham house

October 3, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Illustrator's Botanical House by Intervention Architecture

Intervention Architecture has refurbished and extended a semi-detached house in the Birmingham suburb of Moseley, adding a garden room clad with cedar battens. Designed for an illustrator – giving the home its name of Illustrator’s Botanical House – the living spaces have been opened up as much as possible. Light enters from the north-east facing garden

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Studio Bark’s first flat-pack U-build system used for a home extension in Essex

September 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Mill Lane U-Build house extension by Studio Bark

Slatted screens of stained black wood surround the first-floor extension of an 1830s Georgian cottage in Essex, designed by Studio Bark but built largely by the clients themselves. The Mill Lane project, which both extended and remodelled the existing building, is the first extension to be built using Studio Bark’s flatpack U-Build system. Studio Bark

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Austin Maynard Architects adds two scaly extensions to post-war bungalow in Canberra

September 28, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Empire House by Austin Maynard Architects

Austin Maynard Architects has completed a pair of buildings with steel shingles in a snakeskin-style pattern, to extend a family home in Canberra, Australia. The Empire House project sees the Melbourne-based firm renovate and extend a post-war bungalow on one of Canberra’s historic ring roads. Although the easier option would have been to demolish the building

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Pool Leber Architekten swaps concrete for wood to create R11 loft extension

September 27, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
R11 loft extension by Pool Leber Architekten

Pool Leber Architekten has used cross-laminated timber to add a bright and spacious new loft to a 1980s housing block in Munich. The project, called R11, was not as straightforward as it looks. The four-storey, concrete-framed building was not previously strong enough to take on the load of an extra floor, as a result of

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Adam Knibb adds metal and timber corner extension to Georgian vicarage

September 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Gatti House by Adam Knibb Architects

British studio Adam Knibb Architects has completed a contemporary metal and wood-clad extension to Gatti House, an old Georgian vicarage in Hampshire, England. The Gatti House extension replaces a conservatory that used to be attached to the house, which sits at the edge of the South Downs National Park. The extension abuts the southeastern corner

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Curving larch wood buildings with green roofs form school extension in Germany

September 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Mono Architekten has restored and extended a 1970s concrete school block in Germany with a cluster of curving larch-clad volumes topped with sloping green roofs. The extension houses an after-school care centre for the Waldorf School Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, which has also had a makeover from the Berlin-based practice. This centre is the first phase of

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Steven Holl tops subterranean extension to Kennedy Center with trio of geometric pavilions

September 11, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
REACH at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts by Steven Holl Architects

Steven Holl Architects has nestled “much-needed” performance spaces for the Kennedy Center in Washington DC under a grassy slope topped by three white-concrete pavilions. Named the Reach, the expansion to the John F Kennedy Performing Arts Center comprises 72,000-square-feet (6,689-square-metres) of interior space, almost all of which is housed underground. Steven Holl Architects’ extension adds additional rehearsal

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Bar Orian Architects tops historic Tel Aviv villa with slatted box to create The Levee

September 3, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
The Levee by Bar Orian Architects

A historic house in Tel Aviv’s Neve Tzedek neighbourhood has been transformed into luxury accommodation with a slatted steel addition on top by local firm Bar Orian Architects. The Levee comprises eight rental apartments in Tel Aviv across the extended historic villa building in the city’s oldest neighbourhood, Neve Tzedek. The two-storey structure was built

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Gray Organschi completes wooden high school extension with irregular roofing in Connecticut

September 2, 2019 James Brillon 0
Common Ground High School by Gray Organschi

Outdoor classrooms and active farmlands surround the extension to this ecological high school in Connecticut, which Gray Organschi built with cross-laminated timber to demonstrate sustainable design practices. Common Ground High School is a charter school in New Haven with a curriculum focused on the environment. It was founded in 1997 and is one of the

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