The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Wisteria House in Birmingham by local practice Intervention Architecture is a two-storey side extension with double-height void, designed for future trailing of wisteria to wrap around its façades
Designed with consulting architects Outpost, the exterior of the four-bedroom house in Broadstairs, Kent, is composed of a metal latticework to encourage climbing plants to cover it
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
This conservation project in County Tipperary, Ireland, turns a Recorded Irish Monument with colourful history into a family home
This renovation of a traditional stone house includes three gabled extensions, picking up on the existing building’s proportions and local rural vernacular
The house has been reworked as a modern family home, using colour and decorative details while avoiding the tropes of a typical 21st-century extension
The conversion features a series of interventions that are mostly free-standing, demountable and reversible to facilitate minimal impact on the building
This conversion of an under-used, uninsulated garage into a habitable space for a growing family, has improved daylighting, cross-ventilation and passive surveillance from the interior
London-based studio Polysmiths has completed a timber-framed, three-bedroom house planned around three courtyards on an infill plot in Forest Gate
This rework of practice director Dan Marks’ own house was partly driven by his family’s need for more space and individual autonomy with two children now reaching adolescence
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