Shortlist
Home to a young couple expecting their first baby when the project began, the brief included creating more space for entertaining and family life, and reconfiguring the house to comfortably accommodate guests for extended visits.
The flat is situated in a large semi-detached house, which was converted into 3 flats in the 1970s.
The refurbishment and extension of a 1960s townhouse, including the total renewal of the building's services, and thermal fabric.
Beautiful transformation of a dark Victorian cottage into a bright, warm contemporary home overlooking a prairie garden.
“The Green Machine” was born out of the need to rethink how to live in a compact studio flat in East-London by providing adaptable spaces to suit many different uses such as sleeping, eating, working, entertaining, lounging, etc.
The scheme provides a new rear single storey extension to a Victorian terraced flat in South London.
Hillside House was originally granted planning permission in 2019, but the clients subsequently abandoned the scheme and made plans to move to St. Leonards.
A contextual intervention at times when more and more houses require reconfiguration based on pre-existing extensions: in our case, an existing loft, which we could not change, and a side return requiring a complete reconfiguration.
Working against the grain and thinking outside the conventional steel and stud wall box, Cairn pioneered the use of a new low-carbon concrete in a house renovation and extension in Hackney.
A House in East London is a retrofit of a Victorian terrace house in East London.
A light-filled Edwardian flat of impressive proportions.
The full retrofit and careful refurbishment of an unloved 1960s ex-council dwelling.
A new family home in Forest Gate created from two separate flats within a Victorian end-of-terrace house.
A triangular, self build 40m2 home built within the confines of a former mechanics garage in West Hampstead, Camden, London UK.
Two-Up Two-Down House is a complete reconstruction of a Victorian mid terrace, where the internal spaces and rear have been reimagined into new light filled spaces.
Located near Wimbledon Common, The original house constructed in the 2000s comprised a white-rendered blockwork box with a flat roof.