The AJ’s pick of recently completed houses and contemporary homes designed by architects
This Passivhaus-standard collection of terraced streets in Norwich is the first council housing project ever to be shortlisted for the Stirling, says George Kafka. Film and photography Jim Stephenson
Matthew Barnett Howland, Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton’s building shows how a personal bespoke venture can redefine the aesthetics of sustainable design, writes Hattie Hartman. Film and photography by Jim Stephenson
The 314m² private house was externally detailed with the support of Takero Shimazaki Architects and takes a fabric-first approach
The renovation and extension of a seaside home on Scotland’s west coast combines traditional vernacular form with local craftsmanship to create a distinctive and striking retrofit, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Fred Howarth
Emerging practice KAST Architects has completed a five-bedroom family home on the edge of the village of Feock in Cornwall
The 180m² project features an oriel window which sits in dialogue with a third-floor reading pod
London-based Beasley Dickson Architects co-opted a lean-to annexe and service yard to amplify its two-storey family holiday home in the coastal town of Deal
The extension, a contemporary interpretation of the existing Victorian rectory, doubles the home’s floor area
Edinburgh-based practice Richard Murphy Architects has designed a 400m² home on Strathaven Airfield in South Lanarkshire
Arts and Crafts-inspired design has a spruce CLT structure, steep roofs and uses local Chiltern brick with lime mortar
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