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Despite the bad press flat roof extensions might have received in the past, now is definitely the time to reconsider if this is a route you are mulling over as a way of adding extra space and perhaps ...

“As the existing roof eaves were also home to a family of swifts, we also installed swift boxes into the upper walls of the extension to provide them with a new home.” Inside, the roof becomes a ...

This extension to a cottage in a Dublin suburb by Irish studio Arigho Larmour Wheeler features an asymmetric pyramidal roof, which is sliced off at the top to incorporate a roof light that illuminates ...

Tiny house designers and builders have considerably honed their skills over the last decades and have shown incredible ingenuity in the use of space, creating miniature dwellings that can be perfectly ...

Dutch studio Bloot Architecture has added a larch-clad roof extension to a 1950s summer house, featuring a glazed wall angled to frame views of the trees overhead (+ slideshow). Bloot Architecture was ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the third installment of This Ugly House, a reader renovation diary. We’re excited to publish this tale of a hands-on renovation of a wood-frame house in Bed Stuy. The author ...

Text description provided by the architects. Lincoln is a 140 sqm roof extension of an apartment in an urbanized area of Brussels. The new roof hosts the living area of the apartment and offers two ...