Shortlist unveiled for Don’t Move, Improve! 2022
Jason Sayer2022-11-22T12:26:53+00:00Fifteen projects are in the running for the NLA award that recognises London’s best home improvements completed within the year.
Old meets new
AT Editor2022-05-11T11:48:47+01:00Spray foam insulation from Huntsman Building Solutions forms part of a project to transform a collection of derelict Cumbrian industrial buildings into a striking self-build house and office.
The Blockmakers Arms
AT Editor2022-11-22T12:16:58+00:00Erbar Mattes Architects has skilfully remodelled a former pub in north London to create a home for an expanding family.
Cloak House
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:58+00:00Threefold Architects has extended and remodelled an Edwardian home in Muswell Hill, north London, adding a contemporary extension behind the restored red brick facade to create a "house of two halves".
The Maker’s House
Jessica Mairs2024-12-13T16:55:42+00:00Loader Monteith has reconfigured a Victorian merchant's house outside Glasgow to create a home for an architectural designer and ceramicist, and added a blackened timber pottery studio.
Galgo House
AT Editor2022-11-22T12:17:07+00:00Murado & Elvira Arquitectos has designed a long and narrow house in Madrid, with a footprint that is just 4 metres wide to accommodate a pool and garden on the narrow site.
House in the Forest
AT Editor2022-11-22T12:17:08+00:00El Fil Verd has completed a sustainable, cork-clad passive house on the edge of the Garraf Forest near Barcelona.
Ravine House
AT Editor2022-06-01T09:18:45+01:00High-performance rooflights from Glazing Vision have been specified as part of the refurbishment and upgrade of a striking 1960s house in Chesterfield.
Tollymore
Nelly Greig2026-08-07T10:22:16+01:00Set on a steep triangular site above the Shimna river in Newcastle, Northern Ireland, McGonigle McGrath's Tollymore house steps six separate volumes down towards the water, trading the conventional continuity of a family home for a domestic landscape that rests in the spaces between nature and dwelling.
The Glucksman
Nelly Greig2026-08-07T10:42:50+01:00Building, landscape and civic infrastructure: O’Donnell + Tuomey’s gallery at University College Cork was designed to sit among the trees rather than simply occupy them. Twenty years on, The Glucksman Gallery has aged just as its designers intended, embedding itself into its landscape.
Drumhalla
Nelly Greig2026-08-06T13:06:10+01:00At Drumhalla House in County Donegal, Pasparakis Friel has reconfigured a traditional venue, reconnecting three formerly separate houses and introducing a sequence of new thresholds, views and rooms that recast the country house as a contemporary setting.