Dewsbury Road Home Extension Brent, Northwest London Property, Building Photos

Dewsbury Road House Extension Brent, London

NLA ‘Don’t Move, Improve!’ Competition 2nd Prize design by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects, UK

26 Jan 2018

New London Architecture News

Design: O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects

Location: Brent, Northwest London, England, UK

Dewsbury Road House Extension in Brent2nd Prize in ‘Don’t Move, Improve!’ 2018

Dewsbury Road House Extension Brent

Photos: Rory Gardiner

Dewsbury Road House Extension in Brent

Dewsbury Road House Extension Brent

Second Prize was awarded to Dewsbury Road in Brent, by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects.

Dewsbury Road House Extension Brent

The design responds to the homeowner’s brief for more light, space and storage, without reducing the garden.

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Internally, oak beams and ash furniture reference the owner’s roots – the two materials sacred in Irish mythology.

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The winning projects will now be featured in a dedicated magazine and a three-month exhibition of London’s 120 best home extension projects. The free exhibition will be shown at NLA’s Galleries at The Building Centre, from 26 January to 20 April 2018.

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Photographer: Rory Gardiner

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Sun Rain Rooms by Tonkin Liu winner of Don’t Move, Improve! 2018
Sun Rain Rooms, Finsbury home interior
photo : Edmund Sumner

Location: Brent, London, England, UK

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Victorian Townhouse in Highgate
The brief was to create a warm, comfortable home with modern touches. Although the house was in reasonable condition, the joinery and fittings throughout the house were dated, had been well used and looked tired.

Camden Cloud House
Design: Peter Morris Architects
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The Cloud House is all about colour, fun and exuberance – it has a plunge pool on the roof. It’s a building with its roots more in post-modernism than in the white-walled subtlety of modernism.

Oak Hill House, Hampstead, Northwest London
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photograph : Simon Kennedy
New Hampstead House
Shou Sugi Ban, a UK based manufacturer of charred timber products, has selected Kebony, a beautiful wood recommended by leading architects, to create a distinctive modified timber cladding using the ancient Japanese techniques of burning, brushing or pre-weathering timber to provide a long-lasting and beautiful wood.

Mapledene Road, Hackney, Northeast London
Design: Platform 5 Architects
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Duke’s Avenue House, Chiswick
Architects: IBLA
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The clients, a pair of doctors, wanted to significantly increase the amount of floor-space in their Chiswick home, whilst maintaining the existing character and external massing of the original house, and keeping their garden intact.

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