
Buckinghamshire: The Latest Architecture and News
Brook Green Pavilion / De Rosee Sa Architects
Prestwood Infant School Dining Hall / De Rosee Sa

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Architects: De Rosee Sa
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: James Hardie
Skene Catling De La Pena's Rothschild Project Named UK's Best New House

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Skene Catling De La Pena's Flint House the winner of its annual "House of the Year" award. A "marvel of geological evolution and construction," the home was formed within the "flint-layered fields" of Rothschild’s estate at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire. As the judges say, the home's clever use of a locally prevalent materials and intelligent layering of space "delivers a stunning piece of livable, provoking, modern architecture that marries into the earthly yet beautiful countryside."
Flint House / Skene Catling de la Peña
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Architects: Skene Catling de la Peña
- Area: 580 m²
David Chipperfield's "Radical" English Country House Considered "World's Best"

The Architectural Review (AR) has crowned David Chipperfield's Fayland House winner of the 2015 AR House Awards, deeming it the world's best new house. Celebrating excellence and innovation in the design of a one-off house, the award highlights the Chipperfield-designed home for being a "radical new take on the English country house."
"To make a luxury home that isn’t pompous or a projection of the vanity of its inhabitants is a really difficult thing," said judge Adam Caruso of Caruso St John. "Fayland House places a very large house in a special landscape without disappearing. The domestic outdoor spaces, which have always been an issue in English country houses, are in courtyards, which is an innovation."
Aperture in the Woods / Takero Shimazaki Architecture + Charlie Luxton

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Architects: Charlie Luxton, Takero Shimazaki Architecture
- Area: 215 m² Area: 215 m²
- Year: 2011 Year: 2011
Windmill Hill / Stephen Marshall Architects

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Architects: Stephen Marshall Architects
- Year: 2011
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Manufacturers: GDStones