Inside the UK homes shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2018
Inside the UK homes shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year 2018
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1/20 Old Shed New House, North Yorkshire
Old Shed New House in North Yorkshire balances the grand and the intimate in a "part country cottage, part classical villa”.
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2/20 Old Shed New House, North Yorkshire
The owners of this three-bedroom dwelling had been looking for a peaceful site on which to build their retirement home, before stumbling upon a farm shed at the edge of a small village.
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3/20 Old Shed New House, North Yorkshire
They hired their architect son Greg and asked him to pull the landscape into the building’s form, blurring the lines between outside and in. Knowing his parents’ love of books, Greg built the house around a tall, mirrored library.
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4/20 Old Shed New House, North Yorkshire
Elsewhere, the colour scheme centres on calming grey tones, concrete and white-shaded timber.
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5/20 Old Shed New House, North Yorkshire
The facade also speaks to nature, the combination of larch cladding and galvanised steel creating a rhythmic effect that echoes the bark of the surrounding silver birch trees.
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6/20 Coastal House, South Devon
The RIBA judges were impressed by the "elegant restraint” displayed in the modern transformation of this early 20th-century house.
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7/20 Coastal House, South Devon
Much of its original structure has been retained, with an added layer of external insulation and a new facade of reclaimed slate.
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8/20 Coastal House, South Devon
Inside is where the wows really start, dominated by a fabulous winding timber staircase that rises through a three-storey top-lit atrium to create a series of internal balconies and terraces.
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9/20 Coastal House, South Devon
The ground floor has been dropped to connect to the outside, with the existing windows widened to make the public rooms feel grander.
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10/20 Coastal House, South Devon
Breathtaking coastal views add to the sense of soothing calm that pervades this splendid and historically-respectful new home.
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11/20 Red House, East Dulwich
Red House in East Dulwich, in south-east London, stands out for its success in playfully asserting itself as a modern building in a row of period conversions.
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12/20 Red House, East Dulwich
Described by Grand Designs: House of the Year presenter Kevin as a "cheeky rebel", it was built from the same red bricks used as accent bricks in the existing terrace.
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13/20 Red House, East Dulwich
The patterned, tiled thresholds of the surrounding homes are echoed in the stunning, intricately-patterned section of facade that cost £15,000 to make and sits above an arched window.
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14/20 Red House, East Dulwich
Inside, a double-height hallway leads into a split-level, three-storey home offering nearly 1,500sq ft of living space.
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15/20 Red House, East Dulwich
The team from 31/44 Architects were faced with complex geometry due to a kink in the road and the angled side of the next-door house. They conquered this obstacle by designing an unconventional, sunken ground floor. Overall, Red House cost less than £500,000 to build.
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16/20 Pheasants, Henley
Modernist riverside home Pheasants caused uproar with local residents in traditional Henley in Oxfordshire.
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17/20 Pheasants, Henley
Its owners faced a titanic struggle to win planning permission, meaning their passion project took more than a decade to complete.
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18/20 Pheasants, Henley
Designed by Sarah Griffiths and Amin Taha, this house challenges convention at every turn, from the concrete that seemingly defies gravity to the beautiful perforated Corten steel ribbon that hugs the ground floor living space.
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19/20 Pheasants, Henley
The oversized reflecting pool in the garden adds an elegant, luxurious touch that highlights the ambitious architecture...
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20/20 Pheasants, Henley
...while the interiors are full of top-light with dramatic panoramic views.
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Book lovers will be in raptures at the mirrored library hidden inside the North Yorkshire farm building turned contemporary family home shortlisted for RIBA House of the Year.
Old Shed New House balances the grand and the intimate in a “part country cottage, part classical villa”, said the judges behind the prestigious prize awarded to the best new UK home designed by an architect.
It is joined by Coastal House in South Devon, an early 20th-century house lovingly modernised with elegant restraint, with the results revealed at the end of last night's second episode of Grand Designs: House of the Year.
Presenter Kevin McCloud has been joined by architect Damion Burrows and design expert Michelle Ogundehin to lead us on a weekly snoop around the 20 contemporary, cutting-edge properties longlisted by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Each week, he will reveal which two of the five featured homes have made it onto the shortlist, before announcing the winner at the end of the four-part series on Wednesday November 28.
Red House, a garage turned “sunburnt end-of-terrace house” in East Dulwich, and Pheasants, a controversial glass-and-steel home in traditional Henley, have already made the cut.
OLD SHED NEW HOUSE, NORTH YORKSHIRE
The owners of this charmingly unique, three-bedroom dwelling had been looking for a peaceful site on which to build their retirement home for several years before stumbling upon a farm shed in a wild garden at the edge of a small village.
They hired their architect son Greg and asked him to pull the landscape into the building’s form, blurring the lines between outside and in.
Knowing his parents’ love of books, Greg built this house around a tall, mirrored library that showcases their huge collection of tomes and reflects the greenery of the garden.
Slatted windows allow sunlight to dapple the space. It is so lovely the judges gasped when they saw it.
Elsewhere, the colour scheme centres on calming grey tones, concrete and white-shaded timber that helps the owners’ art collection pop.
The facade also speaks to nature, the combination of larch cladding and galvanised steel creating a rhythmic effect that echoes the bark of the surrounding silver birch trees.
Described by the architects as “a journey of interconnected spaces that alternate between the grand and the intimate…part country cottage, part classical villa”, it’s pretty special.
COASTAL HOUSE, SOUTH DEVON
The RIBA judges were impressed by the “elegant restraint” displayed in the modern transformation of this early 20th-century house.
Much of its original structure has been retained, with an added layer of external insulation and a new facade of reclaimed slate.
Inside is where the wows really start, dominated by a fabulous winding timber staircase that rises through a three-storey top-lit atrium to create a series of internal balconies and terraces.
The ground floor has been dropped to connect to the outside, with the existing windows widened to make the public rooms feel grander.
Breathtaking coastal views add to the sense of soothing calm that pervades this splendid and historically-respectful new home.
STILL TO COME...
Still to come in the series are five homes extreme in different ways, including an awe-inspiring set of cantilevered black boxes that push the limits of engineering, and five that use materials in interesting ways, such as an experimental London home with exposed joints and steel.
“It's very exciting to be back for a fourth season of Grand Designs: House of the Year, with more architectural rich pickings from the very best new homes in the country,” said Kevin.
“Each year, we plot how these exemplars are shaping the architectural landscape of the country and our time as we approach the end of the second decade of the 21st century.
“I say this because although these homes are sometimes expensive and ambitious, they contain ideas and innovation that will help shape the volume housing of the next 20 years – an important reason to watch the series.”
The next episode of Grand Designs: House of the Year airs on Wednesday November 21 at 9pm on Channel 4
