Our Greenwich Garden Room has been featured in the article ‘How to install a home office in your garden to boost the value of your property’
Photography by French + Tye.
Greenwich Garden Room featured in The Telegraph
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Yoga Dojo featured in The Telegraph
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Yoja Dojo has been featured in The Telegraph article entitled ‘ Luxurious hot tubs to bring the January spa experience home’ by Jessica Doyle
The Housing Design Handbook
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by David Levitt and Jo McCafferty
Everyone deserves a decent and affordable home, a truth (almost) universally acknowledged. But housing in the UK has been in a state of crisis for decades, with too few homes built, too often of dubious quality, and costing too much to buy, rent or inhabit. It doesn’t have to be like this. Bringing together a wealth of experience from a wide range of housing experts, this completely revised edition of The Housing Design Handbook provides an authoritative, comprehensive and systematic guide to best practice in what is perhaps the most contentious and complex field of architectural design.
This book sets out design principles for all the essential components of successful housing design – including placemaking, typologies and density, internal and external space, privacy, security, tenure, and community engagement – illustrated with case studies of schemes by architecture practices working across the UK and continental Europe.
Written by David Levitt and Jo McCafferty – two recognised authorities in the field – and with contributions from more than twenty other leading practitioners, The Housing Design Handbook is an essential reference for professionals and students in architecture and design as well as for government bodies, housing associations and other agencies involved in housing.
New Architects 3
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New Architects is the definitive survey of the best British Architects to have set up practice in the ten years since 2005. The third book in the Architecture Foundation's highly influential series, it feature close to 100 practices, selected by a jury of leading critics and curators. As a portrait of the emerging talent in one of the worlds most consistently influential architectural cultures, New Architects 3 casts light on the future of architecture in the UK and beyond. The book features more than 450 illustrations of the selected practices' work and is introduced by the Pritzker Architects Prize laureate, Norman Foster.
We were extremely pleased that we were able to share some of our work alongside some of Britains other best young architecture practices. We were able to share briefly our Essex Mews and Cecelia Road projects, which you can check out fully on our projects page.
How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House
We are delighted that a selection of our projects have been featured in this essential resource for designing a wide variety of extensions to a Victorian terrace.
Author: Jacqueline Green. Photography by FRENCH + TYE. RIBA Publishing.
Our projects are featured in case studies covering the full gamut of nineteenth-century terrace house types. Detailed plans reveal, floor by floor, a range of options for extending and reconfiguring space.
Elgin Avenue featured in Homes & Gardens Magazine
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Mackeson Road featured in Clever Architectural Digest Magazine →
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This Colorful Plywood Cabinetry Transformed This Dingy, Damp London Kitchen
Architectural digest // clever // Morgan Goldberg // photography french + tye
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kitchen-cabinets-plywood
Rearrangement of Living Spaces
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Our Mackeson Road project is featured in the August 2020 edition of Self Build and Design Magazine.
Garden Rooms That Don't Require Planning Permission.
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Here we showcase some of our garden rooms, none of which required planning permission, even in conservation areas!
There are a few parameters and a restrictions, but these featured garden buildings were all covered by the same permitted development as a garden shed! Our largest to date, built in the garden of Mr & Mrs Smith, is 60 sq meters and has a WC, shower, hot tub and enough space for yoga or a gym. Here we see the exterior of this project, the ‘Yoga Dojo’.
the yoga dojo // photography by french + tye
Intended to be a place for the practice of yoga and meditation it provides a distanced and calm retreat from the busy home. The building is highly engineered with precision detailing throughout and forms three main spaces connected visually through the building’s design and physically through the continuation of materials.
Yoga dojo // inside //photography french + tye
Garden rooms can be hugely varied in both scope and design. In stark contrast to the above, our Greenwich Garden room has a more rustic feel. Still containing a WC, the room was more focussed on home working than home relaxing, however it created a very relaxing place to work!
greenwich garden room // photography by french + tye
The compact outhouse transformed a cramped rear garden into a courtyard and provides a garden studio for a writer in South London. Working from home has suddenly become the reality for millions of people around the globe. Walking out of your house into an entirely separate useable space, with protection from the elements yet still in the seclusion of your home boundary, has become an increasingly tempting option for many. As the outbuilding are usually designed and built from scratch, they can be customised entirely for the needs of the family, whether it be homeschooling, a place to work, work-out or relax.
greenwich garden room // inside // photography french + tye
Maresfield Outbuilding is also built under householder permitted development. This highly engineered structure floats under the tree canopy on a concrete raft only 200mm thick with insitu exposed concrete walls. The copper roof gives the building a refined elegance that is visible from the upper floors of the house, fulfilling the brief that the arial view of the garden had to be beautiful.
maresfield outbuilding // photography by french + tye
Mainly used as a place to exercise this garden room keeps bulky equipment away from the main home. Music can be played without disturbing others and it saves on the annual gym subscription for years to come!
maresfield gardens // exterior // photography french + tye
Garden studios are a great way to add useable space to a family home. So much more than a posh shed (but with the same building rules) studios can be thermally efficient ensuring they can be used throughout the year. Studios provide a striking focal point for any garden and can be blended into the landscape using materials that match the style of the exterior and landscaping at your home. Natural or modern finishes and high specification glazing can be sure to add the wow factor. Whether you are looking for a place to entertain guests, a cover for outside dining, or just a retreat from the general buzz of family life a garden studio could be the perfect solution. We can design you a useable, flexible space that fits in with whatever your family needs.