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THISS Studio transforms ‘boxed-in’ Victorian terraced house
THISS Studio has refreshed and reconfigured a dark and boxed-in ground floor of a house in Waltham Forest to create a bright, airy family home
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The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Mailen Design completes new-build family home in Blackheath
Mailen Design has completed the redevelopment of three garages in a south-east London conservation area into a three-bedroom detached house
Forgeworks transforms 1950s bungalow into energy-efficient home
Designed in collaboration with the client, interior designer Celia McCarthy, the façade has been wrapped in high-performance insulation and cedar cladding with the interiors reworked in a bold palette of colours
Adrian James completes own copper house in Oxford
The external form of the two-storey house on the edge of Oxford has been shaped by Passivhaus principles and is entirely copper-clad to double up as a ‘solar helmet’
Benjamin Wilkes completes Leytonstone home retrofit centred on record collection
Vinyl House is a retrofit of a two-storey home in east London, completed for £400,000, for a music-loving client
Klas Hyllén Architecture completes Warwickshire pool house
The pool house, formed of two interconnected volumes of clay brick, is attached to an Arts and Crafts-inspired hilltop home
WT Architecture completes two-bedroom coastal cabin in Sutherland
The 111m2 two-bedroom house on the exposed north-west coast of Scotland is faceted to work with the site’s terrain and the prevailing wind
Tim Poulson completes his own ‘country house clause’ home in Cambridgeshire
The four-bedroom home is conceived as a single sculptural form, clad entirely in Cor-ten
Mistry Swire completes pared-back remodelling of 1930s house
The detached house in Prestbury, Cheshire, now has a renewed façade and has been thermally upgraded and internally remodelled
Mole completes upgrade of Suffolk holiday home
Stone’s Throw is a rework and extension of a single-storey holiday home in Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast