Architecture extension

‘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.

Image 11 of 31 from gallery of Gon-Gar Workshops Rehabilitation and Extension / NUA arquitectures. Photograph by José Hevia

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…

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

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...

WORKac have completed the renovation of a historical building in New York City, into apartments with an angular rooftop extension.

Adaptive reuse, or adaptive re-use in architecture, is the process of repurposing buildings that have outlived their original purposes for different reasons and adapting them to receive new different uses or functions while at the same time retaining and emphasizing their historic features.

Image 6 of 28 from gallery of Douglas Fir House / Christian Brailey Architects. Courtesy of Christian Brailey