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Australian hardwood lines Melbourne cottage extension by Prior Barraclough

October 17, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Architecture practice Prior Barraclough has expanded a modest workers’ cottage in Melbourne to include an extension panelled entirely in Australian hardwood. Located in the neighbourhood of Northcote, Union Street House is a single-fronted workers’ cottage owned by a recently retired couple who wanted their home to have more functional living space. Local practice Prior Barraclough

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Architecture Architecture uses grey breeze blocks for Melbourne extension

October 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Hollow breeze-block walls were used to blend interior and exterior spaces in Sunday, a reimagining of a typical cottage in Melbourne, Australia, designed by local studio Architecture Architecture. The home, called Sunday, occupies a compact, 175-square-metre site in the suburb of Fitzroy. The renovation retained the house’s existing frontage and veranda due to heritage requirements.

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Britsom Philips reconfigures Belgian home with minimalist interiors and thatched roof

October 9, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian studio Britsom Philips has completed Villa VD, a timber-clad extension to a small rural home in Flanders with minimalist, light-filled living spaces. Situated in a woodland clearing in the village of Waasmunster, the expanded home has been clad in timber planks and topped by a thatched roof, both chosen as they will gradually weather

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O’Sullivan Skoufoglou transforms Berlin bungalow with blocky extension

October 3, 2023 Katie Last 0

A band of limestone separates old and new at Fohlenweg, a house in Berlin that London studio O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects created using the walls of an existing bungalow. The three-storey family home was developed from a single-storey house on the edge of Grunewald Forest and features a pale brick exterior divided by the limestone band.

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Studio Bright wraps extension in Australia with pale pink breeze blocks

September 24, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Studio Bright used patterned breeze blocks to wrap Garden Tower House, an extension in Australia, which peeks out from behind the restored frontage of a workers’ cottage. Located in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne, the project was a response to “unsustainable sprawl” in the area, looking to maximise the awkward, narrow site of

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Studio of Metropolitan Design adds monumental pavilion to Delaware Tudor house

September 22, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

American firm Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects has renovated a stone Tudor house and added a pavilion-like concrete extension in Wilmington, Delaware. Led by Elie-Antoine Atallah, Philadelphia-based Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects (SoMD) completed the Katzin Residence in December 2022. The 1,200-square foot (110-square metre) home was built in the 1920s by architect Walter Carlson

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Jonathan Tuckey Design restores and extends traditional stone farmstead in Italy

September 4, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Jonathan Tuckey Design has renovated a former farmstead in northern Italy, restoring and extending a cluster of 19th-century stone buildings to create Cascina, a new home and studio. Stepping down a hillside in Italy’s North Piemonte Region the project, named Cascina – Italian for farmhouse – is comprised of three structures built from local Langa

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Pink concrete forms “geometric and disciplined” wing of Polish Army Museum

September 4, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Architecture studio WXCA has extended the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw, adding a low-lying wing with coloured-concrete walls that are imprinted with chevrons. Named the South Building, the wing introduces another permanent exhibition space to the museum, as well as more areas to display its collection of over 300,000 artefacts. The Polish Army Museum and

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PPAG Architects adds “village” of buildings to Austrian hillside restaurant

August 25, 2023 Katie Last 0

An angular glasshouse for dining and food growth features at Steirereck am Pogusch, a restaurant that Viennese studio PPAG Architects has extended and renovated in Austria. Located on a forested site in the rural village of Pogusch, the glasshouse is intended as an eye-catching addition to the leading Viennese restaurant. Surrounded by farmland at the

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Bureau de Change references Victorian boxing rings for London house extension

August 13, 2023 Anna Marks 0

A sunken living room and decorative red tiles define this residential extension, which architecture studio Bureau de Change has added to Clay House in East Finchley, London. The rear extension is designed for a family of three and offers them a space for leisure and entertainment activities while accommodating their extended family. Bureau de Change’s

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