Extensions

ISM Architecten expands modernist house BEEV with rooftop volume

November 10, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A modernist house originally designed by Belgian architect Paul Neefs has undergone a restoration by architecture studio ISM Architecten in the town of Beerse, Belgium. Named BEEV, the home has been reconfigured and extended to enhance its functionality and efficiency while preserving its original design from 1967. ISM Architecten’s intervention sees the addition of a rooftop

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Greenaway Architecture adds glazed extension to thatched cottage in shadow of castle

November 8, 2023 Tian Lin 0

British studio Greenaway Architecture has added a minimalist glass extension to a 15th-century thatched cottage alongside Farleigh Hungerford Castle near Bath, UK. The architecture studio was informed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin for the design of the glass and steel addition of the mediaeval Watercress Cottage. Within a conservation area, the Watercress

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MAD to transform Chinese factory with futuristic rooftop extension

October 30, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Chinese architecture studio MAD has unveiled its plans for The Ark, a project involving the renovation and extension of a warehouse at an old cement factory in Shanghai, China. The Ark will be distinguished by a futuristic, curved metal extension positioned at roof level and designed to resemble a floating ship – giving the project

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MAD to transform Chinese factory with futuristic rooftop extension

October 30, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Chinese architecture studio MAD has unveiled its plans for The Ark, a project involving the renovation and extension of a warehouse at an old cement factory in Shanghai, China. The Ark will be distinguished by a futuristic, curved metal extension positioned at roof level and designed to resemble a floating ship – giving the project

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Australian hardwood lines Melbourne cottage extension by Prior Barraclough

October 17, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Architecture practice Prior Barraclough has expanded a modest workers’ cottage in Melbourne to include an extension panelled entirely in Australian hardwood. Located in the neighbourhood of Northcote, Union Street House is a single-fronted workers’ cottage owned by a recently retired couple who wanted their home to have more functional living space. Local practice Prior Barraclough

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Architecture Architecture uses grey breeze blocks for Melbourne extension

October 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Hollow breeze-block walls were used to blend interior and exterior spaces in Sunday, a reimagining of a typical cottage in Melbourne, Australia, designed by local studio Architecture Architecture. The home, called Sunday, occupies a compact, 175-square-metre site in the suburb of Fitzroy. The renovation retained the house’s existing frontage and veranda due to heritage requirements.

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Britsom Philips reconfigures Belgian home with minimalist interiors and thatched roof

October 9, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian studio Britsom Philips has completed Villa VD, a timber-clad extension to a small rural home in Flanders with minimalist, light-filled living spaces. Situated in a woodland clearing in the village of Waasmunster, the expanded home has been clad in timber planks and topped by a thatched roof, both chosen as they will gradually weather

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O’Sullivan Skoufoglou transforms Berlin bungalow with blocky extension

October 3, 2023 Katie Last 0

A band of limestone separates old and new at Fohlenweg, a house in Berlin that London studio O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects created using the walls of an existing bungalow. The three-storey family home was developed from a single-storey house on the edge of Grunewald Forest and features a pale brick exterior divided by the limestone band.

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Studio Bright wraps extension in Australia with pale pink breeze blocks

September 24, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Studio Bright used patterned breeze blocks to wrap Garden Tower House, an extension in Australia, which peeks out from behind the restored frontage of a workers’ cottage. Located in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne, the project was a response to “unsustainable sprawl” in the area, looking to maximise the awkward, narrow site of

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Studio of Metropolitan Design adds monumental pavilion to Delaware Tudor house

September 22, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

American firm Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects has renovated a stone Tudor house and added a pavilion-like concrete extension in Wilmington, Delaware. Led by Elie-Antoine Atallah, Philadelphia-based Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects (SoMD) completed the Katzin Residence in December 2022. The 1,200-square foot (110-square metre) home was built in the 1920s by architect Walter Carlson

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