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A all-inclusive anniversary home big abundant to abode its own concert hall, a arbitrary booty on the acceptable shepherd's hut in the Scottish Highlands and an 'upside down' abode acclimatized for it's retired owners are all in the active to called abode of the year by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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Where are the Grand Designs Australia homes now? | Grand Designs Houses NowRIBA has aggregate the longlist for the 2017 RIBA Abode of the Year Accolade - the country's best celebrated accolade for a new abode or addendum - and the jaw-dropping backdrop that accept fabricated it into the 'local' class are the aboriginal to be explored by Kevin McCloud on Channel 4's Grand Designs.
Making use of accustomed abstracts to fit in with their surroundings, the backdrop accept been heavily accepted by lath for their awfully affectionate design.
The new alternation of Grand Designs: Abode of the Year, follows Kevin as he visits a account of avant-garde homes angled for the celebrated prize. Here, FEMAIL takes a attending axial the aboriginal crop of contenders...
CARING WOOD
Caring Copse is congenital on a massive 84-acre acreage abreast Kent, a arresting accumulating of barrio aggressive by acceptable oast houses
On an astronomic 84-acre acreage abreast Kent sits the arresting Caring Wood, a anniversary home with characteristic red roofs that boasts its own concert hall.
It's different architectonics is aggressive by acceptable oast houses that were already acclimated to dry hops for the nation's breweries, abounding of which accept now been adapted into homes.
Kevin McCloud declared Macdonald Wright Architects and Rural Office for Architecture's avant-garde booty on the acceptable barrio as an 'oast abode on steroids'.
The amazing abode took three years to architectonics and a added three to build.
The hidden three-storey courtyard sits in the centre of the capital abode - acclimated for 'quiet contemplation' - with a bronze in the centre that looks like it belongs to a museum
Covering a massive 1,443sqm of adamant outcrop, it accommodates three ancestors of one continued ancestors - the abrupt was a abode they would all accept a abode they could appear to to adore spending time together.
The acreage comprises of four alone oast houses are congenital about a capital core, with visitors entering through a arcade and concert amplitude that leads to a capital common active breadth on the lower floor, and a buried courtyard, acclimated for 'quiet contemplation', at the centre.
The houses bisect the acreage into abstracted genitalia affiliated by what Kevin McCloud declared as 'hidden passageways' - alms anniversary adjunct of the ancestors aloofness in their own quarters.
James Macdonald Wright told Kevin how if any of the accouchement get absent they acquaint via walkie talkies.
The red roofs are evocative of a oast abode roofs, barrio which were complete to dry hops for the nation's breweries, abounding of which accept now been angry into homes
The autogenous adornment is ablaze and aerial to accomplish use of the amplitude - hallways abutting to the concert anteroom at the beginning of the amplitude and arch into the active area
The four houses beleaguer the capital amount and are anniversary attainable via hidden passageways to accord the continued ancestors privacy
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Grand Designs' homeowners make tidy profits from their TV-featured ... | Grand Designs Houses NowSHAWM HOUSE
Nestled on a acreage in Northumberland, Shawm Abode is an absolute archetype of marrying the old with the new.
The 'upside down' carbon aloof farmhouse, which amount £420,000 to build, is aggressive by acceptable old cottages that captivated livestock at the basal and active abode on top. The bedrooms are on the arena floor, absolution up the admiral for a ample active breadth with beauteous views.
It was congenital by Mawsham Architects application locally quarried bean and larch copse from abreast the Scottish bound for retirees Anne and Tony Pender, and their son Richard, who was additionally the artist on the project.
Shawm Abode is one of the shortlisted backdrop in the 'local' category, which are aggressive by the bounded landscape
The anarchistic backward blueprint agency the active abode of the acreage are admiral and booty advantage of the ablaze and beauteous vista
The architectonics sits alongside a courtyard which incorporates an old abiding block now acclimated as a costly study.
The arena attic has three bedrooms and a account allowance while the top floor appearance an astronomic accessible plan kitchen and active area.
The anarchistic blueprint agency the admiral active abode account from added amplitude and height, not to acknowledgment the alarming angle arresting from the ample windows.
A double-height alley at the access leads to the cosy adept bedroom, and should the stairs prove too annoying in the morning, the owners can booty the lift to the aboriginal floor.
The home's aberrant ecology credentials, and the adorable way in which the new assignment and age-old absolute acreage barrio co-exist afflicted the Royal Institute of British Architects judges, who said it was a 'meeting amid the two, beautifully declared and composed'.
The architectonics sits alongside the courtyard which incorporates the old abiding block as a study. The arena attic has three bedrooms and a account allowance with the top attic featuring an astronomic accessible plan kitchen and active area
HILL HOUSE
Couple Anne Claxton and Mike Keys spent ten years active in their Bath bungalow afore they began transforming it into the aggressive Hill House, giving themselves time to soak in the city's archetypal architectonics for inspiration.
They assuredly agape bottomward their three-bed bungalow and rebuilt the acreage afterwards accepting the blooming ablaze from planners, who were initially afraid that the proposed architectonics would jar with the adjacent listed buildings.
Set on a third of an acre and congenital over 230sqm, the acreage is comprised of two blocks congenital from a brick that is conspicuously agnate to the Bath bean acclimated abroad in the city.
Hill Abode is anchored in the affection of Bath and is fabricated from a brick that is conspicuously agnate to the Bath bean acclimated in the city
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Grand Designs features vast project with a lounge big enough for ... | Grand Designs Houses NowOwners Anne Claxton and Mike Keys spent ten years active in the bungalow afore animadversion it bottomward and rebuilding it into article added modern
The access alley leads through to a abstraction which connects one bisected of the architectonics - breadth their two daughters alive in abode complete with their own clandestine access - to the added half, which contains the adept bedchamber and an accessible plan active and kitchen area.
Adrian Neilson, chief attention administrator at the bounded council, was initially alert of the proposed build, but came to see how the bang of avant-garde architectonics could be accomplished in a acute way.
'It was a acute armpit with abounding listed buildings, we were anxious whether or not that those developments wouldn’t account that ambience and absolutely enhance not alone the ambience of those barrio but additionally the attention area,' he explained.
'It does prove you can aberrate from classical architectonics and still be acknowledged alike in a abode like Bath.'
The ceaseless band from the alley agency the garden can be apparent from the access to the ample ancestors home
NO 49
Architect Stephen Davisand wife Laura Lewis-Davis, a architecture curator, started the transformation of their London home by alive its aspect by 90 degrees so that it runs alongside to the road.
Surrounded by acceptable terraced houses the avant-garde two-bedroom at 'No 49' absolutely stands out.
It is congenital about a axial kitchen and diner, with a flat and one bedchamber bench and a adept bedchamber admiral forth with a TV room, which can additionally be acclimated as a bedfellow bedroom.
Presenter Kevin McCloud explained how the brace accept 'rewritten the archetypal layout', abnegating acceptable apartment for amid spaces that breeze into one addition via a alternation of sliding doors and accumulator spaces that act as bank dividers.
Surrounded by acceptable terraced houses, No 49 sits, which runs parralel to the road, stands out for all the appropriate reasons
Every aspect of the autogenous is organised attention acknowledgment to architecture babysitter and buyer Laura who brand to accomplish use of every alcove and cranny
He singles out the lath circling access that leads up to the adept bedchamber as his favourite allotment of the house.
Laura's blow is axiomatic in the interior, which Kevin declared as activity 'very curated’, with every alcove and breach acclimated for different adorning touches.
She explained: 'It is about accepting things that are not too chaotic but baby collections. When you alive in an old abode you accept nooks and crannies, so we were actual acquainted not to architectonics them out because you charge nooks and crannies. They accept character, you can affectation your objects.'
Even the account allowance has been organised with precision, complete with a peg lath blind with a affectation of tools.
The acreage additionally won acclaim from their neighbours, who gushed over the design. 'People are flattered that he [architect Stephen] has absitively to body bottomward our street, there is a lot of pride in that,' one said, while addition added the abode has 'improved our view'.
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Our first grand design went £1m over budget (...but now we¿re ... | Grand Designs Houses NowThe autogenous is progressive, abnegating acceptable apartment for spaces that breeze into one addition with the advice of sliding doors and accumulator units that additionally serve as bank dividers
The lath circling access that leads up to the aboriginal attic adept bedchamber is a arresting affection that was custom congenital for the house
The autogenous is all about collections of altar rather than clutter, with anniversary aspect actuality advisedly called and placed by the owners
FERNAIG COTTAGE
Outdoor enthusiasts Gill Scampton and Andy Barnett bought their briefing shepherd's hut in the Scottish Highlands for £100,000 four years ago.
They were so ardent with the aboriginal architectonics that instead of animadversion it bottomward they absitively to clean the autogenous and to body an adapted replica to sit alongside it.
Determined to advance the candor of the site, they alike travelled to Sweden to adjustment a custom-painted tin roof for the new anatomy that would altogether bout the colour of the aboriginal building.
Together the two barrio actualize the admirable Fernaig Cottage.
Fernaig Cottage is fabricated up of the aboriginal shepherd's hut on the right, and its accompanying addendum on the larboard - anxiously planned by owners and alfresco enthusiasts Gill Scampton and Andy Barnett
The autogenous of the cottage is a complete adverse to the exoteric - avant-garde and minimalist in the active breadth afore it transforms in the bedrooms to become added cosy and cottage-like
Over four years the brace formed with a bounded artist to advance and plan the anatomy to break accurate to its agriculture heritage.
RIBA said that the couple's 'gentle activity [had] added the alien bend of Scotland'.
The aboriginal hut houses three bedrooms and a bath while the new accompanying addendum appearance an accessible plan active and dining area.
A wood-burning stove takes centre-stage in the active breadth - with the apparent chase abutting adjoin the country views
The aboriginal shepherd's hut, left, was acclimated as a starting point for the additional structure, right, as the architects affected every altitude to accomplish them identical
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Abandoned' Grand Designs eco-dome B | Grand Designs Houses NowThe Royal Institute of British Architectonics accepted the brace for their 'gentle activity [which had] added the alien bend of Scotland'
The two shortlisted contenders for the RIBA accolade will be appear on Grand Designs Abode of the Year affectedness tonight on Channel 4 at 8pm.
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