Buckinghamshire: The Latest Architecture and News

+ 20

• Architects

  MICA

• Location

  National Trust Stowe, New Inn Farm, Buckingham MK18 5EQ, United Kingdom

• Category

  Housing

• Area

  800.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Richard-Chivers

+ 17

• Architects

  De Rosee Sa Architects

• Location

  15 Brook Green, London W6 7BL, United Kingdom

• Category

  Tourism

• Area

  42.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Juliet Murphy

+ 15

• Architects

  De Rosee Sa

• Location

  Buckinghamshire, UK

• Category

  Kindergarten

• Budget

  £158,000

• Project Year

  2015

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."

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."

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• Architects

  Takero Shimazaki Architecture , Charlie Luxton

• Location

  Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

• Category

  Renovation

• Design Team

  Jennifer Frewen, Charlie Luxton, Takero Shimazaki, Meiri Shinohara

• Area

  215.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2011

• Photographs

  Edmund Sumner

+ 17

• Architects

  Stephen Marshall Architects

• Location

  Buckinghamshire, UK

• Category

  Institute

• Project Year

  2011

• Photographs

  Richard Bryant