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New London Homes – Recent Designs

Contemporary London Residential Architecture News, chronological:

16 Sep 2013
Mayfair House
Design: Squire and Partners Architects

photo : Gareth Gardner
The contemporary interpretation of leaves are crafted as a metallic shingle, which cover a three storey elevation and rooftop pavilion. The PPC coated folded aluminium leaves – 4,080 in total – subtly vary in tones of bronze to mimic organic growth patterns. The concept was designed over a three year period of research and development working closely with Swiss manufacturer Tuchschmid.

10 Sep 2013
Church Walk Houses, North London
Design: David Mikhail Architects

photo : Tim Crocker
The architects-cum-developers brought their particular skills in the housing sector to bear on this block of four dwellings and demonstrated how such schemes should be delivered – beautifully. They were so pleased with the results that they decided to live in one of them. The external treatment is broken down by the functions, with brick to main living areas, Siberian larch cladding to main bedrooms and expanded mesh to the balconies. The interiors are dynamic with split levels and top lit spaces.

10 Sep 2013
25 Tanners Hill, Lewisham, London SE8
Design: Dow Jones Architects

photo : David Grandorge
Home and Gallery in Lewisham: This beautifully executed project, in which a humble bicycle workshop has been transformed, as if by alchemy, to create a home and gallery with a richly layered collection of spaces. The architecture is made as much by what is stripped away and revealed as by the elements that are added.

31 Jul 2013
Oscar Wilde House, Tite Street, Chelsea, South west London
Design: London Atelier

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This Grade II listed flat has gone through a few mutations before its recent refurbishment by London Atelier. Once the residence of Oscar Wilde, the house had been unimaginatively divided into flats with most of its interesting and original features either hidden or removed.

31 Jul 2013
Elm Court House, North London
Design: AR Design Studio

photo : Martin Gardner
Hidden from view, behind the ordinary looking façade of a modestly sized semi-detached house in North London, sits an elegant piece of modern contemporary architecture. The recently retired owners sought to adapt the existing small and cramped property into their perfect home. Despite their North London site, they were eager to work again with the south coast based architects, having experienced an enjoyable and smooth design process on an earlier holiday home.

20 Jun 2013
Slip House, Brixton, South London
Design: Carl Turner Architect

photo © Tim Crocker
Slip House Brixton
A prototype low energy house located on a brownfield site. It’s simple sculptural form consists of three cantilevered (or slipped) boxes, the uppermost sheathed by a translucent glass screen.

20 Jun 2013
Beveridge Mews, Stepney Green Estate, Hannibal Road, E1
Peter Barber Architects

photo © Morley von Sternberg
Beveridge Mews

5 Jun 2013
Chelsea Town House, south west London
Design: Moxon Architects

photo : Simon Kennedy
Chelsea Town House
Moxon Architects have completed a grade 2 listed house conversion in Chelsea. The driver for this scheme has been to treat the existing structure as a geometric guide for the setting out of new material and spatial interventions.

7 May 2013
Stitched House
Design: Jonathan Tuckey Design

photo : James Brittain
Stitched House London
This house is an example of how you can create something very timeless by using a material like brick which ages well and has reliable thermal properties. The cantilevered brick canopy is very unusual and also creates a sheltered outside space for the London house.

15 Jan 2013
Shoffice – Shed Office, St John’s Wood, West London
Design: Platform 5 Architects

photo : Alan Williams Photography
Shoffice
‘Shoffice’ (shed + office) is a garden pavilion containing a small office alongside garden storage space located to the rear of a 1950’s terraced house in St John’s Wood. The brief required the shoffice to be conceived of as a sculptural object that flowed into the garden space.

14 Dec 2012
Warren Cottage House Extension, Kingston Upon Thames, South west London
Design: McGarry-Moon Architects Ltd

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Kingston Upon Thames Property
Solid, beautifully articulated house extension in London by a Northern Irish architecture studio. The proposed scheme involves the demolition of the existing bunker and 1930’s single storey rear extension to Warren Cottage and their replacement with a new two storey side/rear extension and basement.

18 Oct 2012
North London Residential Extension
Design: Alison Brook Architects

photo Jake Fitzjones for DuPont. All rights reserved
North London Residential Extension
Discreet from street level behind an 1860 North London house sits a spectacular new extension designed by Stirling Prize winning Alison Brook Architects. An angular projection of dynamic shapes and planes, the structure is distinguished not only by its creative vision, but also by the use of Corian to form a striking rain screen façade.

30 Jun 2012
Kings Grove, London SE15
Design: Duggan Morris Architects

photo : Edmund Sumner
Kings Grove House
RIBA Awards 2012 Winner
This is a taut, exemplary response to the development of a landlocked site: an intelligent house built by an architect couple for themselves. The site, reached by a narrow lane, is contained by back gardens.

30 Jun 2012
Dalling Road, West London
Design: Hayhurst and Co. in collaboration with Lucy Carmichael

photo : Killian O’Sullivan
Dalling Road
RIBA Awards 2012 Winner
This is an extension to a Victorian terraced house, a mere 10 square metres larger than the previous footprint of a dilapidated lean-to, from a brief which required a new family kitchen, dining and play space. The simplicity of the brief was however accompanied by a desire to use the opportunities afforded by the angled and tapering geometry of the site to playfully challenge the existing house’s Victorian order.

19 Apr 2012
King’s Mews, Bloomsbury, central London
Design: A+D Studio

photograph : Jefferson Smith
King’s Mews
A+D Studio was commissioned to redevelop this site on the corner of Northington Street and King’s Mews in the Bloomsbury Conservation Area of London. The original mews building at 7 Northington Street and 14 to 17 King’s Mews was a small two storey garage and flat which had fallen into disrepair and was allegedly once occupied by Diana Dors.

18 Apr 2012
Kingsley Place House, Highgate, North London
Architects: Zuber Architecture

photograph : Mel Yates
Kingsley Place House
New build family home built within a conservation area of an award-winning 60’s development in North London. The project retains references to the 60’s development and responds to the flexibility required of modern family living.

2 Mar 2012
Belsize Park Property, North west London
Design: Andy Martin Architects

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Belsize Park Property
Andy Martin Architects are delighted to present their latest residential project, an ambitious redevelopment of an existing mechanics garage. Mews 02 is a single residence set in Belsize Park; the owners, a musician and his designer wife, wanted this existing mechanics garage to be converted to a 4 level family home, with the emphasis on the entertaining areas and with the ability to create private compartments over for sleeping.

17 Feb 2012
Chiswick House, West London
Design: Sam Tisdall architect

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Chiswick House
This recently completed house extension is situated in a leafy conservation area backing on to Chiswick House Gardens in London. Despite its sensitive location, the project moved quickly through planning with the result that a spectacular new living space has been created at the back of an ordinary 1920’s suburban villa, to the delight of the owners who have lived there for 30 years.

1 Feb 2011
Stoke Newington House, North east London
Design: atmos, architects

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Stoke Newington House

Companion page : London housing

Many of these buildings are private houses, please respect owners/tenants’ privacy

Key London Houses

A

House for Anish Kapoor
2008
Tony Fretton

The Artist’s House, Kensington
Gumuchdjian Architects

image © Philip Gumuchdjian
Artist’s House : Stephen Lawrence Prize winner 2010

B

Bedford Park
1875-
Richard Norman Shaw

Belsize Lane House, north west London
Tasou Associates

photo : Tasou Associates
Belsize Lane House

Brick House, London W2
Caruso St John Architects
Brick House London – Stirling Prize nominee 2006

Brick Leaf House, Hampstead, north London
1999-2003
Woolf Architects

C

Castlebar – private house, W5
2006
De Matos Storey Ryan

Chesham Place, south west London
2006
Foster & Partners
for the Candy Brothers: six apartments

3 Colony Mews – courtyard house, off Mildmay Grove North, N1
–
Peter Barber Architects

31 Corsica St, Highbury, northeast London
1991
Paxton Locher Architects

D

Dirty House, Shoreditch, east London
2001-02
Adjaye/Associates

E

Eagle House, Shoreditch, east London
–
Terry Farrell Architects

Ebury St – private house, southwest London
2003
Eva Jiricna Architects with Julian Harrap Architects

Grade 2 listed terraced house – remodelling

Elektra House, Whitechapel, east London
1998-2000
Adjaye/Associates

G

Gap House
Pitman Tozer Architects

image © Nick Kane
Gap House

Gropius House, Chelsea, southwest London
–
Studio Bednarski Architects

H

Hampstead – Private house, north London
–
Rick Mather Architects

Hanover Terrace House, north London
Belsize Architects

photo from architects
Hanover Terrace House

Hauer-King House, 40 Douglas Rd, Islington, northeast London
1994
Future Systems

photo © Nick Weall
private home

Hoffman House, Hamsptead, north London
–
Rick Mather Architects

House in Cannon Place, Hamsptead, north London
Belsize Architects

image from architects
House in Cannon Place

House for the Third Millennium
1994
Ushida Findlay Architects

House in Highgate Cemetery
eldridge smerin, Architects

photo : Lyndon Douglas
House in Highgate Cemetery

J

John Pawson’s house, Notting Hill, northwest London
2001
John Pawson

K

Khan House
drdh Architects

photo : Sue Barr
Khan House

Knight House, Richmond
–
David Chipperfield Architects

L

Ladderstile House
threefoldarchitects

photo © Nick Kane
Ladderstile House

Long house, St Johns Wood
Keith Williams Architects

photograph : Hélène Binet
St Johns Wood house

M

Mapledene Road, Hackney
Platform 5 Architects

picture from architect
Hackney house

Michael Hopkins’ House, more photos at base of Hampstead Architecture page
Michael Hopkins

photograph © Isabelle Lomholt – scan from 1990

Mill Hill House, northwest London
Ungar Architects

image from Caro
Mill Hill Property

Miramonte house, Kingston-upon-Thames, southwest London
1930’s
Max Fry

Murray Mews houses
Design: various architects, including Rogers & Foster

photo © Adrian Welch
London mews houses

N

Noble Yard House, Islington, northeast London
2009

photo © 2009 Matthew Weinreb
Noble Yard House

Notting Hill Penthouse, northwest London
Studio RHE

photo © Bjarte Rettedal
Notting Hill Penthouse

O

Origami stair, Camberwell, south London
Bell Phillips architects

photo : Kilian O’Sullivan
Origami stair

Osterley Park House
–
Robert Adam, Architect

P

Park Sqare Mews House, north London
Belsize architects

image from architects
Park Sqare Mews House

Petersham – Three private houses, southwest London
2003
Terry Farrell & Partners

Plinth House, Salmon Lane, Limehouse
pH+

picture from architects
Plinth House

Portobello Road, Upside Down House
Pitman Tozer Architects

image © Nick Kane
Portobello Road House

R

The Red House
2001
Tony Fretton Architects ; Interiors: Studio Mark Pimlott

27A Reddington Road, NW3
–
Monahan Blythen Architects
private house incl. sheep’s wool insulation + rainwater storage

Richmond house, southwest London
–
Brady & Mallalieu

S

Sheldon Avenue house, Highgate, north London
Belsize architects

photo from architects
Sheldon Avenue

Shoreditch rooftop apartment, 20 Clere Street, Islington
tonkin liu with Richard Rogers

photo © Nick Weall
Shoreditch apartment

Soane Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, central London
Sir John Soane Architect

photograph © Adrian Welch
John Soane’s House

Squirries Street Penthouses, Bethnal Green
pH+

picture from architects
Squirries Street Penthouses

Stealth House
Robert Dye Associates

photo from Robert Dye Associates
Stealth house

Straw Bale house, north of Kings Cross, Holloway/Finsbury Park, north London
Jeremy Till + Sarah Wigglesworth Architects

London house : photograph © Adrian Welch May 2007