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London’s best new extensions announced in the shortlist of Don’t Move, Improve!
New London Architecture (NLA), the capital’s centre for the built environment, has today announced the shortlisted entrants for Don’t Move Improve! 2016, the competition celebrating London’s best new home extensions. Comprised of 33 nominations, the
shortlist features projects from across the capital, ranging from a floating writer’s hut in Enfield to a lantern-like extension in Richmond. Now in its sixth year, the competition
has received a record number of entries, demonstrating a strong desire for people to use the best designers to radically rethink the homes in which they live. Among those to make the final selection, David Kohn’s Sanderson House features a sloping roof alongside a careful combination of materials and colours to create a vibrant and spacious new addition to the home. Two distinct styles remain closely connected to each other as a red brick facade continues the material palette of the existing house. Vivid interiors and porthole-like windows ensure that the Sanderson House is a modern interpretation of the traditional London home. This connection between the old and
new provides both a challenge and an exciting opportunity for designers when constructing an extension. House of Trace by Tsuruta Architects chose to highlight the lines of the existing building to help create a subtle merge between the original and brand new elements of the house, made of glass and brick. Creating extensions in conservation
areas proved to be a hurdle for many of this years’ shortlist but resulted in some of the most inventive solutions. The Lantern by Fraher Architects features a vertical addition a listed residential building in Richmond. An American Black Walnut staircase wraps itself up through the building while vertical glazing creates a glowing effect at night. Properties are not only extended for
extra living space but are quite often the result of a need for home working. The Cut and Frame House is the adaptation of a semi-detached home in Enfield to create a new work/live environment for the owners. Designed by Ashton Porter Architects for a children’s book author and a therapist, the project was driven by the need for the owners to be able to both work at home but have their own separate areas. The resulting design is formed by a large floating frame with a moveable glass panel that can be adapted to create both internal and external working spaces. Large glass panels facing the garden area enable the house to have a close connection to the outside for
family activities whilst still providing privacy and tranquility within the home for working. Other nominations included Folds by
Bureau de Change Architects which features a unique faceted roof, resembling a flat surface being folded back on itself and Grange Yard by Michael Trentham Architects – a tiny 30m2
cantilever structure placed on an
existing building. The awards continue to seek out innovation,
architectural from
extensions on top of, underneath, on the side or back of buildings, to interior insertions, conversions, and garden studios. The shortlisted projects will now be featured in a three-month exhibition alongside the complete longlist of 84 projects that made up the first stage of the awards at NLA’s central London galleries at The Building Centre, from January to March 2016. Winners will be announced at an awards reception on Thursday 21 January 2016 a public day on Saturday 27 February will give Londoners wanting to extend their homes the chance of free one-to-one advise sessions with shortlisted and winning architects. For more information on the entrants,
please visit
www.architectsdatafile.co.uk and enter reference number 17487.
Folds © Bureau de Change Architects
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Sanderson House © Will Pryce
House of Trace © Tim Crocker
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