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A refined seasonal relationship of home to garden now exploits the amazing elevated park views and wonderful westerly sunlight. The ground floor is reconfigured and extended to provide a series of ‘broken-plan’ family spaces whose architecture is defined with a series of conceptually simple, but technically complex, robust columns and beams. Stale Eriksen Stale Eriksen Stale Eriksen Stale Eriksen Stale Eriksen Three sequential spaces are created, a back kitchen and garden boot room, a kitchen and dining zone, and a living space, all connected to a 5m deep terrace through a variety of glazed openings, shaded by the fair-faced concrete full-width lintel above.  Internal and external spaces have been... More

Overview Nestled at the end of a Stoke Newington mews sits an extraordinary house recently added to by Whittaker Parsons.  The East London studio has meticulously designed a tranquil, low-carbon additional storey built from pre-fabricated timber panels, copper clad with an elegant larch and lime-plastered interior. Whittaker Parsons set out to design a beautiful, healthy, serene retreat for the homeowners to immerse themselves in the beauty of natural materials and enjoy views of surrounding tree canopies and rooflines. Jim Stephenson The Clients & brief Paul & Annie Wicks, a married couple with two children, have lived in the property for over ten years. The existing 3-storey property is one of two sophisticated house... More

FORMstudio’s terrace of five ingeniously planned two-storey + basement split-level houses and a detached ‘garden house’ on a brownfield site of post-war garages and an adjacent land-locked walled garden in Kennington, London was commissioned by The Walcot Foundation, which exists for the relief of poverty through charitable donations. Peter Cook Sandwiched between a grand terrace of Georgian houses to the west and Victorian terraces to the east, the site presented significant challenges for redevelopment including its historic Conservation Area context, extensive root protection zones of existing trees, ground contamination and overlooking. Peter Cook The brief was to maximise the rental potential of the site a... More

Located in the heart of Victoria, Francis House is part of a larger campus of late Victorian properties owned by Derwent London. Squire & Partners has been working with the developer since 1998 to reimagine the cluster – which totals 287,000 sq ft and includes Greencoat House, Greencoat Place and Gordon House. Vigo Jansons Vigo Jansons Prior to Genslers interior fit out for tenant Edelman, Squire & Partners worked carefully and sensitively to strip back years of neglect and under-appreciation to reveal the grand architectural bones of Francis House and highlight its raw materials. Vigo Jansons Billy Bolton A former Army and Navy depository and store, the building has been reset and remodelled for the firs... More

A unique serrated edge eaves detail and steeply angled, gutter-less, zinc roof exploits the opportunities of the site and the Dulwich Estate planning constraints to create an innovative wrap-around extension.  Nick Dearden Nick Dearden Nick Dearden The design is a creative response to the constraints and opportunities presented by the site, and Dulwich Estate requirements, resulting in an original take on the typical domestic extension project. The clever roof design articulates privacy, light and views to maximise enjoyment of the space and garden for the large family of seven. Nick Dearden Nick Dearden Nick Dearden To the side the serrated edge eaves detail, with exposed rafter tails, balances light wi... More

Finding space for an elegant new staircase unlocked the potential of this run-down Regency Villa in London's Kensington district.   What were the key challenges? Our clients needed light, light and MORE LIGHT! 'THE PIT'. This is what the clients called the shallow yard at the back of the house they had purchased! THE STAIRCASE was taking up valuable floor space and complicating the plan, whilst the small side wing to the building was underused and disfunctional. We therefore needed to achieve planning consent in a Conservation Area to enlarge the side wing and thereby unlock the potential of the house! Caption What were the solutions? LIGHT: A 7m long frameless structural glass skylight was used to flood the stairways with... More