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8a Belsize Court Garages

residence, architectural practice, online

Originally a late 19C coachman's living quarters and stable, this mews house combines an award-winning architects' studio and a spacious light-filled maisonette after a 2-phase carbon-reducing retrofit.

Sanya Polescuk Architects, 2012

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Garden Room

residence

Flexible use garden room in a newly established garden.

Knott Architects, 2022

Grade I listed 1934 residential block of flats in Hampstead, designed by the Canadian modernist architect Wells Coates for clients Jack and Molly Pritchard. English Heritage blue plaque for Bauhaus masters Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy.

Wells Coates, 1934

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Peckham House

residence

Surman Weston has completed its first self-build project, Peckham House, in South London. A resilient, characterful, and experiential family home, that reflects our personalities and architectural interests.

Surman Weston, 2023

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Springbank

residence

One of a pair of modern houses on a sensitive site in a conservation area. A triple-height staircase atrium brings light into the heart of the house and ground floor areas open onto courtyard gardens on three sides.

Niki Borowiecki, 2013

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The Round House

residence

Grade II* listed late Georgian elliptical 3-storey stuccoed villa.

Attributed John Plaw, 1792

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Tin House

residence

Making efficient use of an irregular urban site, this house is made up of interconnecting top-lit pavilions arranged to define a tranquil private courtyard.

Henning Stummel Architects, 2015

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Winscombe Street 1960s terrace

housing, residence, garden

Terrace of five three-storey houses and a studio incorporating a sequence of communal and private spaces. Influential prototype for Camden social housing developments of the 1960s and 70s.

Neave Brown, 1965