Design: Skene Catling de la Pena. The site is a seam of flint geology surrounded by ploughed fields with the flints sitting on the surface. The project is conceived as two wedges of that geology thrusting up through the flat landscape
Design: vPPR Architects
This family house, built on the walled site of a former taxi garage, is almost entirely hidden in the middle of a Victorian block in Chiswick. The approach is via a covered passage, beyond which is a brick-lined front porch.
A new “fly on the wall” book traces the trajectory of architect Frank Gehry’s first Australian project, from concept to completion. Gehry in Sydney: The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, is edited by Dr Liisa Naar and Professor Stewart Clegg of UTS Business School, Sydney
Grand Designs House of the Year 2015
Skene Catling de la Pena win with Flint House, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England
Tomás Saraceno’s artistic project Aerocene is a series of air-fuelled sculptures that will float in the longest, most sustainable journey around the world without engines, becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth.
The Mill, Scottish Borders by WT Architecture – shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year
Borders Steading is collection of disused farm buildings that nestles into a steep hill overlooking a valley in the Scottish Borders. The mill building was converted into modern, rural holiday home that retained much of its historic character.
The scheme design by Conran and Partners, located on the south-west edge of the city alongside the Tama River, comprises a total of 400,000 sqm of retail, office, leisure and residential building, as well as a new city park.
Design by Wilkinson King Architects
This stand-alone contemporary villa set in the Sussex countryside is an exceptional retreat. Externally the house is quietly confident, with its row of low-profile roof pyramids, windows positioned to take advantage of the views and a muted colour palette of materials.
Architects: Sofia Parente e André Delgado. The Nogueiras House occupies an existing stone construction in direct relation with the front patio and with views to the sea. Formerly used as a barn, it has now been converted into a house.
Architect: Golucci International Design. Restaurant Diaoye Niunan was born in Beijing, a newcomer who sets foot in with an ambition to spread the local Hong Kng style Niunan to the rest of China.
Design: HASSELL. The South End High Street Public Realm project was the first in a program of projects being delivered by the London Borough of Croydon to renew and enhance key high streets in the area.
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
Design: Arhitektura Jure Kotnik. The Smartno Timeshare Kindergarden was designed to encourage interaction, peer learning and self-learning. It has an open floor plan, which merges poorly used spaces such as wardrobes, corridors and stairs into one learning landscape together with playrooms.
A luxurious touch of modern design in the vibrant heart of Lithuania: the newly renovated Holiday Inn in Vilnius offers a hi-tech blend of comfort and innovative design, thanks to the contemporary elegance of DuPont Corian