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Emil Eve Architects brightens London house with terracotta tile-clad extensions

May 10, 2024 Katie Last 0

Local studio Emil Eve Architects has revamped the Aden Grove house in east London, adding loft and rear extensions characterised by angular forms and terracotta tiles. The terraced Victorian home in Newington Green required an update due to its dark interior and series of narrow, disjointed rooms, said Emil Eve Architects. “Like many Victorian terraces,

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Proctor & Shaw expands Dulwich House with concrete extension overlooking garden

May 7, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A series of “monumental” concrete columns frame views across a large garden at this house in Dulwich, London, extended by local studio Proctor & Shaw. Tasked with refurbishing and extending the existing terraced home, named Dulwich House, Proctor & Shaw focused on improving its connection to a 57-metre-long garden at its rear. As a result,

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Mamout adds “smallest possible extension” to townhouse in Brussels

May 2, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian studio Mamout has extended a townhouse in Brussels, adding a small garden room built from a prefabricated shell of pastel green-coloured steel. Aiming to improve the connection between the home and its garden, Mamout drew on the form of an existing bow window on the rear facade to create a glazed seating area for the existing

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Elding Oscarson creates CLT dome theatre inside Swedish museum extension

May 2, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Elding Oscarson has extended the National Swedish Museum of Technology with Wisdome Stockholm, a timber building topped by a curving roof that bulges over a dome inside. Made from 277 pieces of triangular cross-laminated timber (CLT), the spherical structure, which the designers refer to as a “visualisation dome”, contains tiered seating surrounded by 3D

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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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Don’t Move, Improve! unveils London’s best house renovations of 2024

April 19, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A dwelling with a “tin hat” by Nimtim Architects and a colourful extension by Charles Holland are among the 16 London homes named on the shortlist for this year’s Don’t Move, Improve! competition. A triangular house in a former garage by studio Brown Urbanism is also on the shortlist, alongside an extension by Cairn that

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Photos reveal Kengo Kuma’s swooping Lisbon museum extension nearing completion

April 10, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A swooping tiled roof will be the defining feature of Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian extension designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, which is nearing completion in Lisbon. Due to open this September, the extension will form a new entrance for the art museum and become Kengo Kuma and Associates’ first completed project in Portugal.

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Diamond Schmitt Architects to expand Canada’s “oldest continuing museum”

April 4, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Toronto-based studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has been selected to expand the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John, Canada, which is one of the country’s oldest museums. The 134,000-square-foot expansion designed by Diamond Schmitt Architects in collaboration with international firm EXP will unite the current disparate collections of the museum, currently spread in different facilities throughout

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Snøhetta adds glass and glulam extension to world’s oldest ski museum

April 2, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta has extended the Holmenkollen ski museum in Oslo with a glass entrance covered in 1,207 “meticulously placed” wooden battens. Situated at the base of the Holmenkollen ski jump, the extension has been built in celebration of the museum’s 100th anniversary. The building, which was founded in 1923, is the oldest ski museum in

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Hetedik Műterem and Studio Konstella extend old ski lodge in Budapest

March 27, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Hungarian practices Hetedik Műterem and Studio Konstella have revamped and extended the Normafa Ski Lodge restaurant in Budapest with the shingle-clad pavilion, which aims to evoke “the purity of a mountain hut”. Located in Normafa Park to the west of the Hungarian capital, the heritage-protected lodge, which now contains a restaurant, dates back to the

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