San Salvatore
Jessica Mairs2022-06-28T14:56:45+01:00Pierre d’Avoine Architects has converted a chapel in rural Umbria into a private house. Louis Mayes explores a project that weaves ecclesiastical structures and spaces into a contemporary home.
Manber Jeffries House
Jessica Mairs2022-05-09T18:31:13+01:00James Alder Architects has added a russet extension to a home in north-west London, which has a steeply pitched roof following the outline of a now demolished lean-to.
Making the UK’s first net zero carbon house
Jessica Mairs2022-04-21T18:14:58+01:00Hareth Pochee, senior engineer at Max Fordham LLP and author of the net zero report for Max Fordham’s house, answers readers' questions to explain how the figures behind the UK's first carbon zero house stack up.
Lovedon Fields
Jessica Mairs2022-05-05T12:14:36+01:00John Pardey Architects has designed a village extension of 50 custom build homes at Kings Worthy in Hampshire. Engineer Steve Webb delivers his verdict on a project that draws on the local vernacular and connects the existing settlement to the adjacent South Downs National Park.
Cloak House
Jessica Mairs2022-03-02T18:17:20+01:00Threefold 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 Mairs2022-03-02T18:16:51+01:00Loader 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.
Ashraya
Jessica Mairs2022-05-11T11:49:57+01:00Greg Lomas of Foster Lomas reviews Kirkland Fraser Moor's Ashraya house, a low-carbon property tucked beneath an arching roof and covered in a blanket of greenery that melds it with its Chilterns Hills setting.
Seabreeze
Jessica Mairs2022-01-26T19:11:14+01:00RX Architects has completed a pink pigmented concrete house on Camber Sands beach, which features a completely flush facade that stops sand build up.
The Rock
Peter Songi2021-11-12T09:52:19+01:00Jay Gort talks to architect and academic Matthew Barac about The Rock, a house designed by Gort Scott Architects for an extraordinary site in the Canadian mountain resort of Whistler.
Stephen Lawrence Prize 2021
Jessica Mairs2021-10-26T16:58:36+01:00The Water Tower by Tonkin Liu has been awarded the 2021 RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize for best new UK project with a construction cost of under £1 million.