‘haus zur blume’ is a baroque farmhouse by marazzi reinhardt, wrapped in a distinctive timber lamella and realized as part of residential extension.

Fifteen projects are in the running for the NLA award that recognises London’s best home improvements completed within the year.

Bien-Urbain Architecture office in collaboration with the Fayolle Pilon architectes associés team, the extension – renovation of the Notre-Dame des Oiseaux high school is implanted on MichelAnge street, in the heart of the 16th district of Paris. Besides the partial refurbishment of a 19th century building, the project needed the demolition of an old inadapted pavilion, in order to implement a rich, complex, program including laboratorys, classrooms, offices, a library, an extension of the…

Completed in 2011 in Destelbergen, Belgium. Images by Julien Lanoo, Philippe Brysse. The house is situated in a typical residential area. The plots are characterized by large rear gardens and negligible side garden strips. The...

Image 4 of 22 from gallery of Alexandra Drive House / studioSH. Photograph by Lorenzo Zandri

the project involves the reorganization and expansion of the former structure, split among three different buildings. NUA arquitectures has refurbished the gon-gar workshop, an industrial cluster l in the compact urban area of benissanet, in tarragona, spain.

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steep, gutter-less and angled roof coated with red pigmented zinc in London.

Atelier 4036 architecture office designed Rebhalde, a house extension in Brügg owned by two families. The extension intented to cover all the floors of the existing building, with wood as basic material. Densification and posturbanization are among Switzerlands keys towards sustainability. Several ways exist to apply these principles on the development of cities as well as on smaller communities. The question in how to adapt the urbanization processes to communities with a predominant…

Studio McW has added a series of gabled extensions to an 18th-century house in Cambridgeshire, using stone and timber to complement its rural character.