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Film director-turned-hemp farmer Steve Barron commissioned Practice Architecture to help him ‘grow’ a prototype house using his own crop. The result is Flat House, an ultra-low embodied carbon building the team is now looking to reproduce at scale. Rob Wilson interviewed Paloma Gormley, partner at Practice Architecture, to find out more. Photography by…
A tight budget for external conservation has been intelligently stretched to include significant internal improvements to accessibility and natural lighting
Major refurbishment, reconfiguration and extension of a former industrial building in Fitzrovia with a new core and bespoke interior details
On a modest budget, PUP Architects has rehabilitated and extended derelict structures at the south London city farm to bring a new lease of life to this vital community hub. Photography by Simone Bossi
A previously derelict structure has been converted into a three bedroom house with a new mezzanine sundeck and sunken courtyard providing outside space
This light-touch conversion of an 1890s London stable into the RODEO art gallery is designed to accentuate the historic interior
The completed restoration of two central civic buildings forms a new unified headquarters building for Aberdeenshire Council
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Eighteen-apartment scheme in London features new staircases fabricated in oak, glass and steel
A London terraced house’s basement has been remodelled as an office for the architect’s practice
The 54m² apartment’s bespoke interior has been inspired by the mansion block’s 1920s mock-Tudor exterior
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