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Perforated steel and pavement lights let the sun pierce London townhouse by Andy Martin Architecture

April 26, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Andy Martin Architecture gutted this five-storey Georgian townhouse in Belgravia, adding glass pavement lights to the ground floor to allow natural light to filter down to the basement. Andy Martin’s locally based firm was tasked with bringing extra light into the residence of their clients, who wanted to introduce elements of their Sardinian heritage into the central London

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Abundant glazing and wrap-around terraces feature in Vermont home by J Roc Design

April 25, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Boston-based J Roc Design has built a Vermont home with three wings around a central hub, creating a wheelchair-accessible upper level that spreads across a hillside. The Glass Trefoil House is situated outside Stowe, Vermont. Recessed into a slope, the upper storey sits elevated to offer a panorama of rolling hills surrounding the valley town.

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Naked House and OMMX offer bare-bones affordable housing for London

April 25, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

British studio OMMX has teamed up with house-builder Naked House to develop an affordable housing model for London, offering homes stripped back to just their bare necessities. Designed to appeal to first-time buyers priced out of the capital’s traditional housing market, the properties will be sold for between £150,000 to £350,000 – a fraction of the £580,000 average house price

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Giles Pike Architects adds stepped glass extension to Victorian house in south London

April 25, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Giles Pike Architects has extended this house in Putney, southwest London, using glass walls to flood the new basement living areas with natural light. Local studio Giles Pike Architects designed the stepped extension for a Victorian semi-detached house to create an open-plan living, kitchen and dining room. The architects excavated ground at the back of the Felsham Road property to extend

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Giles Pike Architects adds stepped glass extension to Victorian house in south London

April 25, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Giles Pike Architects has extended this house in Putney, southwest London, using glass walls to flood the new basement living areas with natural light. Local studio Giles Pike Architects designed the stepped extension for a Victorian semi-detached house to create an open-plan living, kitchen and dining room. The architects excavated ground at the back of the Felsham Road property to extend

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Cover uses computer algorithms to design prefabricated dwellings

April 24, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

A technology-driven home-building company in California says it is “doing for homes what Tesla is doing for the car”. Cover produces customised, prefabricated backyard homes often referred to as accessory dwellings — touted by some as a way to increase density and provide affordable housing in growing metro areas. The small dwellings can be used

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Mountainside villa by SAOTA frames Cape Town’s spectacular scenery

April 24, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

A+Awards: South African studio SAOTA received a 2016 Architizer A+Award for this residence in Cape Town, which enjoys views of the area’s dramatic rock formations. The 2,023-square-metre house, named OVD 919, looks down over the city’s affluent beachside neighbourhoods Bantry Bay and Clifton from a lofty perch on a mountain known as Lion’s Head. “Nestled

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Berman Guedes Stretton upgrades Powell & Moya’s modernist University of Oxford buildings

April 23, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Berman Guedes Stretton sought to preserve and enhance the modernist designs of buildings at two University of Oxford colleges during renovations to improve their interior layout. The Oxford- and London-based firm was invited to oversee the renovation of a building designed in 1969 by Powell & Moya, a firm best known for its Skylon tensegrity structure at the 1951 Festival of Britain.

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Nimtim adds pergola-like extension to 1950s terrace in south London

April 23, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Timber portals frame windows and skylights in this garden-facing extension, which Nimtim Architects has added to a terraced house in Peckham, southeast London. The London-based practice designed the extension and renovation to an “unremarkable” infill house built between brickwork residences during the 1950s. The client, a young professional, wanted the extension to serve as an open-plan kitchen and dining

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Vaughn McQuarrie completes island cottage overlooking New Zealand’s Hauraki Gulf

April 23, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Architect Vaughn McQuarrie has replaced a 1920s cottage on New Zealand’s Waiheke Island with a modest concrete and timber residence, set among mature gardens. McQuarrie was asked to design Oneroa House for a client who has spent 26 years residing in the cottage on the edge of the island, located around 20 kilometres off Auckland’s coast. “The owners had lived on the

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