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Madam Architectuur perches green-tiled home extension on curved concrete terrace

March 27, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Brussel-based architecture studio Madam Architectuur has renovated a home in Dilbeek, Belgium, adding a green-tiled extension built on a green-pigmented concrete base. Green hues were chosen for the extension to match the surrounding lush landscape and set it apart from the existing white house, which was built in 1937. Named Sofie, Madam Architectuur aimed to

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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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Witherford Watson Mann Architects adds timber River Wing extension to Cambridge college

March 15, 2024 Starr Charles 0

British architecture studio Witherford Watson Mann has inserted an oak-framed structure into a narrow site within the Grade I-listed Clare College at Cambridge University. Originally built in 1326 and then reconstructed in 1785, the 1,060-square-metre college needed an update to improve its accessibility, escape routes and services, as well as more flexible space to house

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Page Southerland Page adds weathering-steel extension to museum in Texas’s high desert

February 26, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

US studio Page Southerland Page has added a Corten-steel addition to a museum in Texas that complements a historical structure and was designed to look like “a chunk of landscape”. Located on an elevated site that looks down over the town of Alpine in East Texas, the extension to the Museum of the Big Bend

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Álvaro Siza expands his Serralves Museum in Porto with angular gallery

February 26, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has expanded the Serralves Museum in Porto, which he completed in 1999, with an angular extension housing some of his archival works. Named the Álvaro Siza Wing, the three-storey extension has a geometric shape that branches out from the existing museum and slots in between the trees in Serralves Park. The Álvaro

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“Fried-egg” canopy tops Sunny Side Up extension by THISS Studio

February 20, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture practice THISS Studio has reconfigured the dark interior of an interwar house in east London, adding an extension characterised by timber joinery and a curved aluminium roof. Designed to have “a fun and unconventional presence”, the extension was conceived by THISS Studio as though it were a piece of furniture rather than a conventional

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RSHP designs tapered museum extension to house Bayeux Tapestry in Normandy

February 6, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

British studio RSHP has unveiled plans to overhaul the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy, France, adding an extension to exhibit the 70-metre-long, historic tapestry. RSHP’s design will involve restoring the existing 17th-century museum and extending it to better display the embroidered cloth that depicts the lead-up to William I’s conquest of England in 1066. The

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ConForm Architects models green-terrazzo flat extension on bay windows

January 27, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Green terrazzo is teamed with concrete and clay-toned plaster at Terzetto, a London flat extension that architecture studio ConForm Architects has modelled on bay windows. Located in a conservation area in Hampstead, the sunken rear extension opens up the existing flat, ridding it of its low ceilings and dark interiors, while reorienting its living spaces towards

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Daniel Canda adds “suspended glass box” to 1980s residence in Argentina

January 26, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio Daniel Canda & Asociados has renovated a 1980s country club residence in Argentina, opening up the interior and wrapping the second floor in ribbon windows. Located in the Los Cardales suburbs outside of Buenos Aires, Cabin 192 was originally built by architect Horacio Iovine in the early 1980s. Faced between updating an

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Juan Alberto Andrade adds workspace onto multifamily housing in Ecuador

January 19, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Ecuadorian architect Juan Alberto Andrade has completed an extension to a multifamily housing complex with rammed earth walls in Guayaquil. Known as El Retiro, the nine-square metre (97-square foot) addition doubles the common space of a 305-square metre (3,282-square foot) residential complex, protruding into the front setback along the street and blurring the line between

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