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Teğet creates timber visitor centre for Turkish archaeological site

June 6, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Three wooden buildings arranged around a courtyard make up Çatalhöyük Visitor Center, which Istanbul studio Teğet has created on a Neolithic archaeological site in central Turkey. Commissioned by the local municipality, the visitor centre is located at Çatalhöyük – the site of one of the world’s oldest known settlements, which dates back to the eighth century

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RIBA confronts colonial history of London HQ in Raise the Roof: Building for Change exhibition

May 24, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

A graphite mural and pine sculptures are among the artworks in an exhibition examining the colonial history embedded in the Royal British Institute of Architects’ London headquarters. The exhibition, named Raise the Roof: Building for Change, grapples specifically with the colonial symbolism in two of the building’s most divisive interior features. These are the Jarvis

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Invisible Studio and Mole Architects create “big shed” as Forest School Camps base

May 23, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

The Big Roof is a flexible educational and storage space in eastern England, created by British practices Invisible Studio and Mole Architects for the Forest School Camps charity. Described by Invisible Studio and Mole Architects as a “big shed”, the project replaces three dilapidated agricultural buildings in the Cambridgeshire Fens previously used by the educational

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OFIS Arhitekti adds looping extension to modernist villa in Slovenia

May 12, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

A semi-enclosed, winding extension that aims to facilitate “inside-outside living” defines Ring House, a 1930s villa in Slovenia renovated by local studio OFIS Arhitekti. Located in the suburbs of the capital city Ljubljana, the modernist villa required updating to improve its connection to the garden, as it had no direct access from the ground floor.

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Parallel Studio creates Mariam’s Library for young students in Zanzibar

May 5, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture practice Parallel Studio has punctured the white walls of this children’s library in Zanzibar with small holes, providing natural ventilation and casting shadows across books inside. Named Mariam’s Library, the building occupies an empty plot in the village of Mwanyanya and is designed as an “inviting and inclusive environment conducive to learning, creativity, and

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Unknown Works revamps co-founder’s “cramped” Victorian home in London

April 30, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture studio Unknown Works has renovated a terraced London house called Oasis, adding a side and rear extension to create a flexible interior and maximise natural light. The Victorian home in Kentish Town is owned by Unknown Works’ co-founder Theo Games Petrophilos, who wanted to update its interior with a large open-plan living area suitable

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Tuckey Design Studio restores original character of Old Chapel in Devon

April 27, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

London practice Tuckey Design Studio has revamped a house in a converted chapel in Devon, England, revealing and restoring the building’s original features. To celebrate its ecclesiastic history, the Old Chapel house has been reworked to reverse “characterless” alterations made during its conversion in the 1970s and later in the 1990s. This involved stripping back

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Alexander Hills Architects converts Norfolk farmhouse into accessible family home

April 5, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

London studio Alexander Hills Architects has transformed Old Rectory Farm, a house in Norfolk, into an accessible residence with level-access living spaces. Old Rectory Farm has been extended and adapted to enable the family’s father, who uses a wheelchair for mobility, to continue living in the home “with ease and dignity”. Alexander Hills Architects has

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Knox Bhavan transforms Victorian villa in London into “low-energy forever home”

April 4, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Love Walk II is a Victorian villa in London that has been retrofitted and extended by architecture studio Knox Bhavan to create a home in which its owners can comfortably grow older. Located in the conservation area of Camberwell Grove, Love Walk II was updated to improve both the habitability and energy efficiency of its

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The DHaus Company revamps London house with butterfly-roof extension

March 25, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

An inverted-pitch roof and angular brick cladding characterise the Butterfly House extension, which architecture studio The DHaus Company has added to a terraced home in north London. The DHaus Company reconfigured and extended the ground floor of the home to improve its dining area while providing more private living spaces for the client’s teenage children.

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