The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Ladlecombe by Found Associates
[MANSER MEDAL 2012] A modern interpretation of the local vernacular
House
The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
Between the cracks: Stillpoint by Piers Taylor
Piers Taylor’s Stillpoint project in Bath is typical of good new architecture in the city - hidden from view, writes Rory Olcayto. Photography by Peter Cook
Quiet intervention
Witherford Watson Mann’s sensitive re-occupation of Astley Castle saves the essential and excises the incidental, writes Joseph Rykwert. Photography by Helene Binet
Long House by Dan Brill Architects, Winchester
This house arose from the divergence between the clients’ brief and planning constraints, with the building form mediating between the two
Feeringbury Barn by Hudson Architects, Essex
Conversion of an extremely large 16th-century barn on a working Essex farm, which is Grade-II listed and had lain unused for a number of years
Malindi & Providence by Simon Conder Associates, Porthtowen, Cornwall
Two new houses located on a dramatic, south-facing hillside overlooking the beach in the village of Porthtowan on the north Cornish coast
Marlaw by Gareth Hoskins Architects, Glasgow
A new private house within the Pollokshields conservation area, a garden suburb with some of Glasgow’s finest Victorian villas
The house at Spanish Cove
On a craggy site on the Irish coast, Niall McLaughlin Architects’ precisely hewn home challenges our ideas of the familiar and the domestic, writes Stephen Best
Black sheep
Sergison Bates’ retrofit in Noho has polished a seedy location and repaired the urban fabric, writes Felix Mara. Photography by Anthony Coleman