Townhouse

If you've been on the Internet over the weekend, or watched the just-dropped new episode of For the Love of Kitchens, featuring cook spaces transformed by

Recognising that the family home needed refreshing, Roland & Fred Woodward called upon their skills to give the building a new lease of life.

Mrs. Roosevelt lived on the bottom floors from 1959 up to her death in 1962, hosting the likes of John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev.

Architecture is meant to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. When you look at a structure, you can distinguish these two ends but they cannot be separated, and the relative weight each of them carry can vary widely. Plus, every society has its own, unique relationship to the natural world and its architecture usually reflects that as well, allowing people from other places to learn about their environment, as well as…

When David Mlinaric was presented with an an ill-served London townhouse, he brought in expert former colleagues and an array of British artisans to reinstate its Georgian character, while transforming it into an elegant family home

instead of laying out a wall of hedges, worrell yeung layers planter volumes in the brooklyn heights garden to achieve lushness while maintaining privacy.

With this project we’ve explored contemporary expressions of row-house architecture. In this development, on the upper slopes of Table Mountain, private garages take access off a shared drive-aisle which in turn take access from one carriageway crossing. This allows for private gardens almost all the way along the street edge and pedestrian access to four separate front door entrances into each house directly from the sidewalk. Project Status: Completed 2022 Contractor: GVK Siya Zama…