Extensions

Haller Gut Architekten adds “light and delicate” extension to Swiss school

August 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Swiss studio Haller Gut Architekten has completed an extension to a school in Aeschi, providing classrooms with colourful accents and clad in thin planks of white wood. Haller Gut Architekten added additional teaching and administrative spaces to the school, which was originally spread across four detached buildings from different decades. Instead of creating a new,

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Lynch Architects creates “sympathetic architectural atmosphere” for Westminster Coroner’s Court extension

August 16, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Lynch Architects has completed the extension of Westminster Coroner’s Court, creating a barrel-vaulted courtroom illuminated by stained glass windows by artist Brian Clarke. The project involved updating the interiors of the Grade II-listed Victorian redbrick building in London – originally built in 1833 – as well as the creation of a new extension,

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Beacon House extension by Office S&M features bubblegum pink tiles

August 8, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A London house extension designed by Office S&M features a ceramic facade with the same pink glaze used for Tube station tiles on the Hammersmith and City Line. Office S&M designed Beacon House, a single-storey rear extension, for a Victorian terraced house in Tottenham, north London. It creates a larger kitchen and dining space for

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Conner + Perry Architects adds spa and theatre lounge to Lautner house in LA

July 30, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Conner + Perry Architects has made additions to the area surrounding the Sheats-Goldstein Residence in Los Angeles, which American architect John Lautner designed in the 1960s. Conner + Perry Architects completed work on the lower terrace of the steep site, with the original Lautner house at the top of the site. The entire

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Heliotrope uses “warm and subdued” materials for Seattle house extension

July 11, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Heavy timber, wood and brick are among the materials used by US studio Heliotrope to create an extension to a historic 1930s home that was originally built by a Norwegian ship captain. Dating to 1933, the house was built by ship captain Ole E Nelson, who modelled it after his boyhood home in Bergen, Norway.

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Will Gamble Architects modernises London Victorian house with “soft minimalism” interiors

July 5, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

UK studio Will Gamble Architects has extended and modernised a Victorian house in south London, using curved shapes and a palette of natural materials to create a calm and minimalist aesthetic. The clients – a married couple looking to create their forever home – asked Will Gamble Architects to oversee the transformation of the semi-detached

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Corstorphine & Wright carves scoop into office facade to celebrate neighbouring church

July 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio Corstorphine & Wright has completed The Scoop, an office extension in London named after the gouge in its white-brick facade. The four-storey office building has been extended sideways and upwards and wrapped in glazed bricks, arranged to draw attention to the circular window of the neighbouring Grade II-listed church. “The church’s circular window

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Álvaro Siza adds angular concrete extension to renovated monastery in Porto

June 27, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has added an angular white-concrete extension to the Monastery of Leça do Balio in Porto to provide “a new landmark” for the site. Designed by Siza with landscape architect Sidonio Pardal, the extension provides additional space for visitors to the site, which is the headquarters of the cultural entity Foundation Livraria Lello.

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Modul 28 transforms fortified church in Transylvania into guesthouse

June 26, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Romanian studio Modul 28 has updated and extended the rectory of a church in Transylvania, transforming it into a guesthouse that “balances preservation with innovation”. Located in the village of Curciu, the building was renovated as part of an initiative led by the Fortified Churches Foundation, which exists to preserve the region’s large number of

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Martin Fenlon Architecture wraps Los Angeles house in woodsy green cladding

June 13, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Green fibre-cement siding that blends with the trees is among the modifications made to a century-old house in California that has been revamped by local studio Martin Fenlon Architecture. The project involved updating and expanding a 1920s house situated in Los Angeles’s historic Highland Park neighbourhood. The owners are a designer and an artist with

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