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Sycamore House / Cairn

Andreas Luco — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Sycamore is the complete renovation and extension of a 1960’s house for a family of four on the edge of a historic Buckinghamshire village. The clients loved the location and extraordinary hilltop views of the Chiltons countryside, but the house was too small and in urgent need of refurbishment. The interior was entirely rebuilt, with extensions added to the side and rear, all new glazing throughout, and new landscaping with an external lap-pool overlooking the wonderful view. Only the front wall and garage remain of the original house, maintaining the consistent character of the street. The build was completed in March 2020, just in time for lockdown.

Stowe School / MICA

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 03:00:00 +0000

In the southwest of Stowe Gardens, a new girls’ boarding house has been introduced into the setting of one of the pre-eminent examples of the English Landscape Movement. Sheltered at the edge of a long dividing strip of structured woodland known as Pyramid Wood or Rook Spinney defining the edge of the Western Gardens, the area is concealed from the historically constructed grazing land once of English longhorns and rare breeds.

Prestwood Infant School Dining Hall / De Rosee Sa

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 02:00:00 +0000

Much-loved children’s author Roald Dahl was the inspiration for a new dining hall and after school facility in Buckinghamshire’s Prestwood Infant School. The author – who lived locally – had already apparently based the headteacher Miss Trunchbull in his popular book Matilda on a former real-life headteacher at the school.

Flint House / Skene Catling de la Peña

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 09:00:00 +0000

Skene Catling de la Peña were asked simply to respond to a site in the grounds of Waddesdon, a large Estate in Buckinghamshire, with a building initially intended for the curator of a new archive building. The Flint House consists of three bedrooms, a dining room, kitchen, library and study, with a self-contained annex studio, of 465 and 115 sqm respectively.

Aperture in the Woods / Takero Shimazaki Architects + Charlie Luxton

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 01:00:00 +0000

A conversion of a derelict 1960s modernist house in the outskirts of Amersham, Buckinghamshire, the house has multiple aspects and is sited next to a local Church and surrounded by the Buckingham woodland.

Windmill Hill / Stephen Marshall Architects

Megan Jett — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

June 2011 sees the launch of Windmill Hill, a new building complex on the Waddesdon Estate that will serve as a research and archive centre for Waddesdon and a home for the philanthropic work of the Rothschild Foundation.