Best of Houzz 2022 UK - London (Exterior)
Patrick + Rosie
Paul Craig
Medium sized and black contemporary terraced house in London with metal cladding.
Medium sized and black contemporary terraced house in London with metal cladding.
ALL & NXTHING
Emma Thompson
Photo of a medium sized and red contemporary two floor brick semi-detached house in London.
Photo of a medium sized and red contemporary two floor brick semi-detached house in London.
John Davies Landscape
This is a contemporary garden space created for a newly built property offering multiple areas for outside relaxation and featuring a pool with fountain jets, table top topiarised plane trees, multi stemmed feature trees and a meadow style planting scheme. Photographs by the designer, John Davies
Fraher & Findlay Architects Ltd
View from courtyard space
This is an example of a contemporary rear extension in London.
This is an example of a contemporary rear extension in London.
Stephen Turvil Architects
Inspiration for a black traditional two floor house exterior in London with wood cladding.
Titman Design
Warren King Photography
Photo of a medium sized contemporary brick terraced house in London with three floors.
Photo of a medium sized contemporary brick terraced house in London with three floors.
Francesco Pierazzi Architects
This detached Victorian house was extended to accommodate the needs of a young family with three small children.
The programme was organized into two distinctive structures: the larger and higher volume is placed at the back of the house to face the garden and make the best use of the south orientation and to accommodate a large Family Room open to the new Kitchen. A longer and thinner volume, only 1.15m wide, stands to the western side of the house and accommodates a Toilet, a Utility and a dining booth facing the Family Room. All the functions that are housed in the secondary volume have direct access either from the original house or the rear extension, thus generating a hierarchy of served and servant volumes, a relationship that is homogeneous to that between the house and the extension.
The timber structures, while distinctive in their proportions, are connected by a shallow volume that doubles as a bench to create an architectural continuum and to emphasize the effect of a secondary volume wrapped around a primary one.
While the extension makes use of a modern idiom, so that it is clearly distinguished from the original house and so that the history of its development becomes immediately apparent, the size of the red cedar cladding boards, left untreated to allow a natural silvering process, matches that of the Victorian brickwork to bind house and extension together.
As the budget did not make possible the use a bespoke profile, an off-the-shelf board was selected and further grooved at mid point to recreate the brick pattern of the façade.
A tall and slender pivoting door, positioned at the boundary between the original house and the new intervention, allows a direct view of the garden from the front of the house and facilitates an innovative relationship with the outside.
Photo: Gianluca Maver
STEPHEN FLETCHER ARCHITECTS
A Victorian semi-detached house in Wimbledon has been remodelled and transformed
into a modern family home, including extensive underpinning and extensions at lower
ground floor level in order to form a large open-plan space.
Photographer: Nick Smith