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Geometric shapes, fossilised stone and English cherry wood characterise this house in Wimbledon, London, overhauled by local architecture studio Gundry & Ducker. Named Wimbledon Villa, the studio renovated and extended the detached early 2000s property with the aim of making it feel like “a country house in miniature”. Studio co-founder Christian Ducker told Dezeen that

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Local studio Witherford Watson Mann aimed to “set a new benchmark” for inner-city older people’s accommodation with Appleby Blue, a social housing development in Southwark, London, for over-65s. Designed for and managed by the United St Saviour’s Charity, the development replaces a former care home on the site that had fallen into disrepair. It includes

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Informed by the greenhouses that once occupied the site, local architecture studio Hayhurst and Co added bamboo planting behind polycarbonate screens to the facade of a family home in London. Named Green House, Hayhurst and Co created the home as an example of low-cost, low-energy housing, with a cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure and repurposed materials

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Architecture studio Pricegore has renovated a modernist townhouse in Chelsea, London, reconfiguring the four-storey house into a contemporary three-bedroom home. Pricegore aimed to revamp the existing home by creating generous and flexible living spaces, while respecting the building’s brutalist ideals with exposed material finishes. While investigating the site’s history, the studio discovered the deep foundations

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Vast swathes of London’s social housing continue to be demolished in the name of estate regeneration, but Anna Minton believes things could be about to change. Estate regeneration schemes have seen more than 100 of London’s council estates demolished and replaced with developments of predominantly luxury apartments, redefining the British capital and fuelling the housing

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