The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Corstorphine & Wright converts Second World War bunker into holiday home
An abandoned 1939 concrete structure in Ringstead on the Jurassic Coast has been reworked into a 76m² subterranean holiday home
Tag: House
Case study: Kingsfield Pond by Jonathan Hendry Architects
A poplar tree woodland was the starting point for designing this Lincolnshire house, configured as a series of separate buildings. Photography by David Grandorge
Interior reflections: Graphic House by Office S&M
The first in a series of articles on interiors looks at the refurbishment of an Edwardian home in east London, transformed to reflect the tastes of its graphic-designer owner
West End producer given 18 months to knock down ‘fortress-like’ rural home
The government has given the owners of a huge Norfolk house 18 months to knock it down, after they lost an appeal for retrospective planning permission
Canice Architects adapts 18th-century Irish school building into a house
This conservation project in County Tipperary, Ireland, turns a Recorded Irish Monument with colourful history into a family home
Case study: Riverview House by Mole Architects
A highly insulated timber frame and a high degree of airtightness reduce energy consumption for this new house built along the River Cam. Photography by Jim Stephenson
House of the Future, Dubai
The Dubai Government has launched a competition – featuring a £218,400 (1 million AED) prize fund – for an innovative new housing typology ‘suited for modern Emirati needs’ [Deadline: 30 September 2023]
Polysmiths completes cork-panelled house in east London
London-based studio Polysmiths has completed a timber-framed, three-bedroom house planned around three courtyards on an infill plot in Forest Gate
Generous is beautiful: Studio Bark’s radical low-impact Para 80 experiment
Nest House, built with Studio Bark’s open-source U-Build timber flatpack system, is small-scale, circular construction which, says Ewa Effiom, throws down a sustainability challenge to architects at large. Photography by Jim Stephenson, Andy Billman and Studio Bark
Whittaker Parsons completes home for downsizing couple in Peckham
Forming a bookend to an existing terrace, the 88m2 home, costing £350,000, sits on a narrow site between a substation and the clients’ former family home