The lemur domes at Wildheart Animal Sanctuary on the Isle of Wight are the first bamboo structures to obtain Building Regulations approval in the UK – part of an ever-evolving experiment in natural materials and regenerative design. Neil Thomas discovers a world that revolves around the needs of wildlife, the environment, and generations to come.
A contextually-sensitive visitor centre and bus stop by henkai architekti mark the entrance to the Pustevny mountain saddle in the Czech Republic.
Bindloss Dawes has completed a striking yet sympathetic extension to a converted school house in Somerset.
John Pardey revisits the acclaimed modernist house that Peter Aldington built for himself and his wife in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, in the 1960s, and reflects on the nature of permanence and the architect’s enduring love of the ordinary.
Tuckey Design Studio has skilfully reworked a converted chapel in South Devon, giving the simple masonry and timber structure a new lease of life.
Architecture Office has restored and extended a Grade II listed property on the River Fowey in Cornwall.
London studio Selencky Parsons has repurposed a former apple store into an extension for a home in West Sussex.
A timber-clad holiday residence near Lac Notre-Dame, Quebec, by RobitailleCurtis forms a strong connection with its mountainside site.
ADR‘s simple yet refined dwelling for a ski resort manager in the north of the Czech Republic draws on vernacular mountain architecture.
Stolon Studio has completed a deep retrofit project in rural Herefordshire, sympathetically transforming a collection of 15th and 16th century agricultural buildings into sustainable housing for a new rural community.
Howells’ has completed a contextually-sensitive and materially-rich pavilion restaurant at the National Trust’s Hanbury Hall in Worcestershire.
Cuddymoss, a one-off house in north Ayrshire designed by Ann Nisbet Studio, has won the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award.
