Specifying with confidence
AT Editor2023-02-01T10:15:29+00:00Ben Brocklesby, Director at Origin, discusses the importance of choosing high-performance door and window solutions for new-build and refurbishment residential projects.
The Red House by David Kohn wins House of the Year
Jason Sayer2023-02-07T12:42:38+00:00Set in the Dorset countryside, the dwelling by David Kohn Architects draws on a plethora of styles and has won the RIBA House of the Year award for 2022
Mylius Architects creates multigenerational home in Suffolk
Jessica Mairs2023-01-16T15:10:03+00:00Mylius Architects has designed a new home for a retired couple and their extended family in Suffolk, creating private and overlapping zones that give options for togetherness and independence.
Made of Sand
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:30+00:00Studio Weave has added a timber-framed artist's retreat to a stone cottage in rural Devon.
San Salvatore
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:31+00:00Pierre 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 Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:46+00:00James 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 Mairs2022-11-22T12:26:48+00:00Hareth 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 Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:52+00:00John 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 Mairs2022-11-22T12:16:58+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.
Ashraya
Jessica Mairs2024-10-23T14:52:20+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 Mairs2022-11-22T12:17:06+00:00RX Architects has completed a pink pigmented concrete house on Camber Sands beach, which features a completely flush facade that stops sand build up.
