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New English architecture projects with building news for England and architectural images, plus UK architects background. England building news from across this North West European country, featuring the most interesting contemporary properties.
The Parchment Works, Northamptonshire – delightful house extension to a Grade II listed double-fronted Victorian home: the formal street frontage gives no clues to a garden extension that is full of surprises
Sea Breeze on Camber Sands beach, East Sussex, England, house design by RX Architects – directly backing on to natural sand dunes – only accessed by driving along the beach
Ravine House, Chesterfield, England, by Chiles Evans + Care Architects – restoration and extension of 1967 home – a damp and cold structure, seemingly beyond help
Derwent Valley Villa, Duffield, Derbyshire, England, property design by Blee Halligan architects – relaxed modesty and straightforward approach to materials and entry: surprises and delights
The distinctive Market Hall in Plymouth wins the top Chair’s Prize in the Planning Excellence 2022 Awards, by the Royal Town Planning Institute: the Devonport dockyard building was built in 1852
Catch Beach House on the North Kent coastline, England, by architects Stiff + Trevillion takes its cues from the traditional fisherman’s huts and boat sheds which inhabit this stretch of coastline
Visitors to Haverstock’s Guildford Crematorium building are greeted from the car park by an unprepossessing brick and concrete wall. After this underwhelming start, it gets better and better
DLA Architecture has completed works on the redesign of the historic Shot Tower in Chester and handed over the completed scheme
IBI Group led on all aspects of the design of the Heathlands Integrated Health and Care Home, Berkshire, England, delivering a facility for patients with intermediate care needs dementia
2022 RIBA South Award shortlisted – ‘Island Rest’ is a contemporary family holiday home on a beautiful Isle of Wight creek, England. The spacious site has direct access to the water and views of the Solent beyond
WilkinsonEyre have submitted a detailed planning application for the production facility, known as Marlow Film Studios in Buckinghamshire known as the home for British film, England
Oliver Leech Architects has given Hipped House, a detached inter-war house in Epsom, Surrey, a new sense of identity through the addition of a hipped-roof two-storey rear extension
The Mitchell Building at Skinners’ School, Kent design by Bell Phillips Architects, its core buildings forming a muscular and evocative red-brick backdrop to the main playground
The Fratry, Carlisle Cathedral building design by Feilden Fowles Architects, England: discerning conservation, a new build café facility & restored and re-purposed fratry with community space
Sutton Hoo buildings, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England design by Haysom Ward Miller Architects – with a visitor centre built less than two decades ago, what was needed? Well, it needed a tower!
