House Remodelling | Melbury Road | London | FLACQ

Complete remodeling of a west London townhouse, within a conservation area, featuring a full width extension at lower ground floor level. Formal living spaces are grouped at ground level leading down to a large family room.

In addition to full height glazing, roof lights and a frameless bay window provide natural light to the new family living and dining spaces.......more

Penthouse Design | Mica House | London | Stanton Williams

A new steel-framed structure was placed on the top floor of a warehouse to create an L-shaped apartment, open along its entire length onto a terrace with a full-height glazed wall. This extends the inside out and outside in, and allows for 360º degree city views. We tracked the path of the sun from morning to night and from season to season to select the optimum position for the apartment and harness the flow of light, giving a living space constantly changed and coloured by nature.........more

Passive House Design | Camden Passivhaus | London | Bere Architects

This timber framed 118m2, two bedroom house is the first certified Passivhaus in London, setting a benchmark for energy efficient design for the city. The primary objective of the project was to achieve a comfortable home for the client’s young family, while minimizing energy consumption. The 118m2, two bedroom, family house is constructed with a heavily insulated prefabricated timber frame set inside 3m retaining walls and clad in European larch. It is cheap to run, achieving a heating saving of 90% compared to existing housing; low in carbon emissions; and is bright and airy, with sliding doors on to a south facing terrace..........more

North Park House | London | Burwell Deakins Architects

This discerning client still feels at home in the house designed for his family in the Eltham Palace Conservation Area. Set discreetly behind a mature yew tree, the simple geometry is layered elegantly away from the road. Service elements are to the north, while the more private spaces to the south bleed through generous windows and sliding doors into the shade of the orchard. Despite the contemporary form and simple structure, the careful use of traditional handmade bricks and Portland stone means the house sits easily within its environment. So much so, it won a Civic Trust Award.....more

Proudhouse | Whitechapel | London | 1104 Architects

Proud House is a residential new build development of 6 apartments in a run down area of East London. The building was given an assertive - proud appearance to facilitate urban regeneration in a run-down inner city area. Various materials are employed to integrate the design into the hostile environment including the use of a sacrificial concrete graffiti wall.....more

Helmet Row House | Islington | London | Haines Phillips Architects

These two inner city Grade II listed Georgian houses are located opposite St. Luke’s Church, one of Sir Nicholas Hawksmoor’s finest churches, on Old Street. The client’s requirements for additional living accommodation within their original house was achieved by an extension across the rear gardens of both houses, facing the original house across a courtyard, providing open plan, spacious, contemporary living space while maintaining the original house and its cellular Georgian rooms for bedroom and ancillary accommodation. The paved courtyard, enclosed by the new extension and the original house, acts as an outdoor extension of the living accommodation. The upper floors of the second house were converted to a self contained maisonette with an office/retail unit at basement and ground floor levels. The street façade remains unchanged.....more

Country House | London | Burwell Deakins Architects

Quality was key in the upgrade of this mansion. From the dramatic, and correctly proportioned, solid Portland stone new entrance portico to the crisply modern architecture of the subterranean pool and spa, all is finely detailed and finished. The entrance hall and kitchen were enlarged, and ground floor rooms reorganised into a private suite and a range of reception and service facilities. The upper floors are a series of guest and master suites, two centred on new private roof terraces. The quality of the finishes, including Pietra Cardosa stone and walnut joinery, is consistent throughout.....more

Hopkins' House | Hampstead, London | Hopkins Architects

As well as a house, a studio was needed for the recently established architectural practice. The leafy street of Regency villas suggested the detached form of the building. Its footprint was defined by building restriction lines, leaving a 10m x 12m rectangle on two levels. From the front, however, the house appears to be single-storey, because the site is 2.5 metres below the road. The main entrance is at first-floor level across a footbridge, spanning a slope down to the garden level.....more

Refurbishment and House Extension | Shandon | Clapham, south London | Studio Octopi

An airy and tranquil kitchen and dining space blurs the boundary between the ground floor and the garden of this terraced house in Clapham, south London. The interior and exterior are treated as a continuous space, a single room formed in plan by three equal zones that balance and unify the ground floor. The division between the house and the garden is made indistinct by a minimally framed sliding door that allows natural light to stream back deep inside the building. Beneath it the sandstone kitchen floor extends seamlessly outwards to form a terrace between the rear elevation and the timber deck at the end of the garden. The kitchen units and countertop form a block that stretches out through the rear elevation, the exposed section of storage echoing the proportions of the kitchen island. These dimensions are repeated once more, as a negative in the void of the roof-light, positioned in parallel with the kitchen island to allow light to fall in on the internal dining area......more

Bladon Lodge | London Designed By CAPS Architects

Designing a client’s personal home is always a unique experience. Bladon Lodge was originally two London flats that were brought together to look seamlessly as one space. As architects and designers, CAPS had a relationship with the entire building, transforming the space with modern twists but always with an appreciation to its classical spirit.....more

Ladderstile House | Richmond Park, London | Designed By threefoldarchitects

Ladderstile House is a new build sustainable family home bordering Richmond Park, arranged around a central courtyard built from a solid timber system, clad in hand thrown bricks, a vertical garden and filligree stainless steel screens. Geothermal boreholes provide the energy for all the heating and swimming pool.....more

Chapel Market House | London | Edgley Design

Architect Statement

We were both developer and architect on this scheme for two new houses on Chapel Market in Islington. The site is surrounded on all sides by a high wall, and turns in on itself to form a retreat from the lively bustle of the market outside. As you enter the house the spaces gradually unfold, first into a hall lit by slots of light cut up into the roof then into an open living area. These spaces are finished in natural materials- limestone and walnut- that are inviting to the touch and the barefoot resident. As you step out into the courtyard, bare brick walls and raw timber reflect the industrial history of the site......more picture of the house here

Ab Rogers | The Rainbow House | Portobello Road, London

The Rainbow House is a truly unique proposition: part adult playground, part three-dimensional artwork. Designed by Ab Rogers (son of Richard Rogers), it features flooring by the artist Richard Woods, a multi-coloured spiral staircase, and a slide that whisks you down through a trap door from the master bedroom into the reception room.

The majority of the house has excellent natural light. The open-plan kitchen/ reception/ dining room is located on the first floor, where a bespoke padded seating area is upholstered in yellow leather. This area also transforms into a cinema room thanks to an electrically operated screen that drops down from the ceiling.

Accommodation is flexible, and includes a large master bedroom with central bath, rotating bed and en-suite steam/ shower room, second double bedroom with en-suite bathroom, studio/ reception with its own kitchen and shower room, third reception, utility room and fantastic roof terrace.

The house is equipped with an integrated media system throughout, as well as an intruder alarm. There is a washing machine, dryer, dishwasher and range cooker.

Ab Rogers has completed a number of high-profile interior-design projects, ranging from the flagship Comme des Garçons store in Paris to the recently revamped Little Chef restaurants in the UK. He has also designed a number of exhibitions, including a retrospective of his father, Richard Rogers, at the Pompidou Centre.

The Rainbow House is located in the very heart of Notting Hill, amongst the hustle and bustle of the boutiques, bars and restaurants along Portobello Road. Notting Hill Gate Underground (District, Circle and Central Lines) is a short ten-minute walk away, and Ladbroke Grove (Hammersmith & City Line) is even closer.
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Townhouse | Princelet Street Spitalfields, London | Chris Dyson

Ground Floor/Entrance Hall/Reception Room
27' x 17'1" / 8.2m x 5.2m
Large windows to front, with box frames currently used for exhibiting artwork. Full-height glazing at rear. Views down to dining area. Access to Patio.

Lower Ground Floor Kitchen / Dining Room
27' x 17'1" / 8.2m x 5.2m
Partly double-height, with access to patio / terrace.
Patio / Terrace
17'1" x 13'2" / 5.2m x 4m

First Floor Bedroom
14'1" x 11'2" / 4.3m x 3.4m
Bedroom
12'10" x 11'2" / 3.9m x 3.4m
Access to Balcony.

Bathroom
Bath, twin basins.

Cloakroom
WC, basin.

Second Floor Bedroom
14'1" x 11'5" / 4.3m x 3.5m
Bedroom
12'10" x 11'5" / 3.9m x 3.5m

Bathroom
Bath with shower over, basin, WC.

Cloakroom
WC, basin.

Third Floor Master Bedroom / Studio
27' x 17'1" / 8.2m x 5.2m
With basin. Double-aspect.
Approximate gross internal area: 2,373 sq ft / 220.5 sq m

Source:the modern house

Anderson House | Gosfield Street, London | Jamie Fobert

£4,333 pcm / £1,000 pw
Internal accommodation measures approximately 1,700 sq ft, and includes 2 double bedrooms. The master bedroom has a small terrace, as well as an open-plan bath and wash area with bespoke concrete bath and basin. It also has extensive storage space. The centrepiece of the house is an impressive double-height reception room; its primary material is concrete, which has been cast against plastic sheeting to give it wrinkles and inconsistencies.
The house is situated at the Langham Street end of Gosfield Street. The nearest Underground station is Oxford Circus (Central, Victoria and Bakerloo lines). Great Portland Street (Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines) and Goodge Street (Northern line) stations are also a short walk away. All of the restaurants, bars, shops and facilities of the West End are within easy reach, as are the open spaces of Regent's Park.
Source:The Modern House Estate
Photograph by Sue Barr
Architect: Jamie Fobert

Brooke Coombes House | London | Burd Haward

Self build low energy house in Ealing. Winner of RIBA Manser Medal 2002
Cost £350,000
Source:Burd Haward