The architects taking the quaint out of cottages
Can you add a glass box or contemporary styling to a gingerbread cottage without offending our childlike sense of what these traditional homes should look and feel like?
Can you add a glass box or contemporary styling to a gingerbread cottage without offending our childlike sense of what these traditional homes should look and feel like?

Their designs prioritise playfulness over practicality, but these idealised versions of domesticity are the inspiration behind…

Colour, scale, surprise and fantasy are in full flow in a reimagined 17th-century Kent home

The ancient roofing material is being dramatically reimagined to create head-turning, luxurious and sustainable buildings around…

The Welsh studio is quietly gathering a formidable reputation for blending agricultural vernacular and playful historicism

Romance, originality — and perhaps a bit of snobbery — keep some of us living amid cracked china and spiky gothic chairs

The same relish for history and playfulness at the centre of his practice has resulted in a house restoration that has a story to…