The Float House
AT Editor2026-01-09T17:17:34+00:00TiggColl’s modular floating house on the Grand Union Canal reimagines waterside living through sustainable materials, accessible design, and an ingenious system of interlocking steel hulls.
TiggColl’s modular floating house on the Grand Union Canal reimagines waterside living through sustainable materials, accessible design, and an ingenious system of interlocking steel hulls.
Named RIBA House of the Year 2025, Izat Arundell’s self-built home in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides was recognised for its sensitivity to place, hyper-local materiality and assured response to an extreme landscape.
Cagni Williams Associates has reworked an Edwardian terraced house in south London, replacing the rear conservatory with a Corten steel-and-glass extension, and delivering a low-energy retrofit with carefully crafted spaces.
Pend Architects’ contemporary extension to a Georgian farmhouse in East Lothian unifies a fragmented rear elevation and creates a new link to the property’s garden.
Charlie Luxton and VELUX rethink the rural retrofit at Lamorna House in the Cotswolds.
Mulroy Architects’ reworking of a Victorian terrace in north London’s Crouch End unites fragmented spaces into a flexible, light-filled home designed to evolve with the client’s family.
Carmody Groarke has completed a distinctive duplex apartment and rooftop pavilion within a Grade II listed merchant’s house in Covent Garden, London.
In Oeiras, Portugal, a house by OODA addresses the challenges of an irregular topography with an elegant architectural response, embedding into the landscape and enhancing natural light and privacy.
Canadian practice Batay-Csorba Architects’ residential project in Toronto’s High Park neighbourhood reinterprets the traditional Edwardian gable home with a sculptural, monolithic composition.
Emil Eve’s renovation and extension of an Edwardian house in the Harpenden Conservation Area creates a flexible family home that integrates three new interlocking volumes.
Brown & Brown Architects has completed a sustainable and contextually-sensitive house on the Solway coastline for a retired couple relocating from Edinburgh.