Extensions

Wonder Architects have used pale green ceramic tiles to clad a house extension in Yangqing, China, that mirrors the form of its traditional neighbours. Called Intertwine House, the building closely resembles the dimensions and pitched roofs of the village’s existing houses, so old and modern architecture sit side by side. Wonder Architects said they wanted to

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Larch planks finished with matt black barn paint were used to clad this extension of a Victorian terrace in London, designed by architect Harry Thomson. Fittingly named A House for Four, the project provides additional spaces for a couple and their two children. The existing dining space has been extended out into the garden, and a

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Intervention Architecture has refurbished and extended a semi-detached house in the Birmingham suburb of Moseley, adding a garden room clad with cedar battens. Designed for an illustrator – giving the home its name of Illustrator’s Botanical House – the living spaces have been opened up as much as possible. Light enters from the north-east facing garden

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Slatted screens of stained black wood surround the first-floor extension of an 1830s Georgian cottage in Essex, designed by Studio Bark but built largely by the clients themselves. The Mill Lane project, which both extended and remodelled the existing building, is the first extension to be built using Studio Bark’s flatpack U-Build system. Studio Bark

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