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The extension features a basement swimming pool
London practice Jonathan Tuckey Design has been given the green light for a minimalist hempcrete extension to a Victorian house in Cambridge.
The 500sq m extension in the city’s De Freville conservation area consists of a series of ground floor rooms leading down to a basement containing a swimming pool.
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The two-storey structure will be built using hempcrete to compliment the grey stone villa
Project architect Jasmine Low said hempcrete was chosen for its sustainability and to echo the existing Victorian villa’s grey stone.
Steve Webb, director at the project’s structural engineer Webb Yates, said that the most striking part of the design was the basement’s plan form.
Jonathan Tuckey Design wins approval for Cambridge hempcrete house
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DK-CM completes first phase of Harrow Arts Centre redevelopment
16 February 2021 By Fran Williams. Photography by Neil Perry
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40 under 40 practice DK-CM has completed Phase 1 of the north London art centre’s campus redevelopment including the refurbishment of three listed buildings
The listed but disused buildings across the campus have been refurbished into a new dance school, events space and artists’ studios.
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This work, with a budget of £1.3 million, is the first phase of a six-year masterplan developed by DK-CM to support this popular Harrow cultural campus become self-sufficient.
Across all three buildings, a careful reuse approach has been taken to the historic dilapidated outbuildings. The practice started by removing layers of harmful additions and conserving and repairing where needed to give the structures longevity.
Building study: David Brownlow Theatre by Jonathan Tuckey Design
29 January 2021 By Jay Merrick . Photography by Jim Stephenson & Nick Dearden
A studied miscellany of materials and styles add performance spaces and a new civic presence to a prep school near Newbury, writes
Jay Merrick.
The architectural skin and bones of the David Brownlow Theatre at Horris Hill prep school present a conundrum. Everything about the building’s form, elevations and interiors are extremely distinct; and yet, encountered as an object in an 85-acre setting that is part hamlet, part landscape, the building ushers the mind and senses into a pleasing state of puzzlement. Despite the clarity of Jonathan Tuckey Design’s scheme, it’s impossible to give the architecture a cast-iron typological label.
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