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Álvaro Siza adds angular concrete extension to renovated monastery in Porto

June 27, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has added an angular white-concrete extension to the Monastery of Leça do Balio in Porto to provide “a new landmark” for the site. Designed by Siza with landscape architect Sidonio Pardal, the extension provides additional space for visitors to the site, which is the headquarters of the cultural entity Foundation Livraria Lello.

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Modul 28 transforms fortified church in Transylvania into guesthouse

June 26, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Romanian studio Modul 28 has updated and extended the rectory of a church in Transylvania, transforming it into a guesthouse that “balances preservation with innovation”. Located in the village of Curciu, the building was renovated as part of an initiative led by the Fortified Churches Foundation, which exists to preserve the region’s large number of

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Martin Fenlon Architecture wraps Los Angeles house in woodsy green cladding

June 13, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Green fibre-cement siding that blends with the trees is among the modifications made to a century-old house in California that has been revamped by local studio Martin Fenlon Architecture. The project involved updating and expanding a 1920s house situated in Los Angeles’s historic Highland Park neighbourhood. The owners are a designer and an artist with

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Populous, Stantec and S2 Architecture unveil western Canada’s largest convention centre

June 10, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Populous, Stantec and S2 Architecture teamed up to expand a convention centre with a sweeping copper-coloured canopy in Calgary, Alberta. Unveiled in June 2024, the BMO Centre at Stampede Park is the largest convention centre in western Canada with an occupancy of 33,000. A collaboration between global design studios Populous and Stantec; and Canadian studio

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Cairn uses hand-poured hempcrete for House Made by Many Hands in London

May 30, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Cairn has used hand-poured hempcrete to form the rough textured walls at House Made by Many Hands, an extension of a Victorian home in east London. Approached to redesign the “dark and cramped” home in Hackney, London and Edinburgh-based Cairn reconfigured and expanded its ground floor using a palette of low-carbon and bio-based

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Cast Corbel House by Grafted features handcrafted red-concrete details

May 27, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

A red-hued extension built from brick and pigmented concrete has been added to a Victorian house in the suburbs of Norwich by local architecture studio Grafted. Located in the Golden Triangle in the Heigham Grove conservation area, the home is named Cast Corbel House after the handmade concrete corbelling on its facade that nods to

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So Architecture adds textured “sanctuary” to cottage in Tasmania

May 23, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A vaulted ceiling clad in wooden slats features inside Harriet’s House, a cottage in Tasmania extended by local studio So Architecture. Located in the city of Launceston, the 50-square-metre addition replaces two dated extensions previously added to the rear of the Georgian-style dwelling. As the site of the cottage is overlooked on both sides, So Architecture

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Terracotta-tiled extensions by Emil Eve Architects named London’s best home improvement project

May 14, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A family house “joyfully transformed” with terracotta-coloured extensions has been named London’s best home improvement project by Don’t Move, Improve! 2024. The house renovation by local studio Emil Eve Architects, named Aden Grove, has been selected as the overall winner of the annual award from a shortlist of 16 projects. It was praised by this year’s

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London extension by Collective Works blends Scandinavian and Mediterranean influences

May 14, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Terracotta-coloured facades and warm wood-lined interiors define Mid Terrace Dream, a terraced house in north London renovated and extended by local studio Collective Works. Collective Works has expanded the home, which it said was previously “run down”, with two adjoining pitched-roof volumes at the rear and a full dormer to expand its loft. The extensions

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OFIS Arhitekti adds looping extension to modernist villa in Slovenia

May 12, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

A semi-enclosed, winding extension that aims to facilitate “inside-outside living” defines Ring House, a 1930s villa in Slovenia renovated by local studio OFIS Arhitekti. Located in the suburbs of the capital city Ljubljana, the modernist villa required updating to improve its connection to the garden, as it had no direct access from the ground floor.

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