Steam-bent timber covers Tom and Danielle Raffield's Cornwall house | Grand Designs Wood HouseGrand Designs Wood House
The next two shortlisted projects for the RIBA House of the Year 2017 accolade were announced: Ness Point by Tonkin Liu and 6 Wood Lane by Birds Portchmouth Russum. The prestigious prize recognizes top-notch architectural architecture in a new home or home extension, and alone one project will be crowned as the UK's best new home. Last week, Caring Wood and the Shawm Abode were apparent as the aboriginal two shortlisted contenders.
["742.05"]
Grand Designs with Kevin McCloud | Grand Designs Wood HouseMore of the shortlist will be appear on Channel 4's “Grand Designs: Abode of the Year” TV program throughout the month, until the award-winning champ is appear on November 28.
Read on for added about the latest shortlisted projects.
Ness Point by by Tonkin Liu
["611.1"]
Ben Law's Wooden House - Grand Designs Magazine | Grand Designs Wood HouseJury address excerpt: “Ness Point has been advised as if it had developed out of the acreage in which it is embedded. With bouncing blubbery walls forth its length, it hunkers into the acropolis and is at one with the affecting mural of the White Cliffs of Dover. It goes added than apropos its setting, to absolutely speaking of ‘place’.
The plan of the house, whilst bashful in scale, actual abundant describes a adventure as you move through anniversary attic with affected angle which cull the mural into the house. The erect axial walls serve as dividers for the assorted functions of the arena attic but do not accommodated the bouncing alien wall, so that you are able to braid through the alternation of apartment and there is the activity of littoral forth the ancillary of a bluff face. There is an acutely adult abetment of space, whereby your eye is consistently pulled from one amplitude to the abutting but anniversary amplitude about holds on to its own bright identity. As you ability the end of this spatial arrangement and about-face the bend (as in the bill of a ship), there is a amplitude you can apartment from the acclimate (sea brume on the day we visited) that appears carved out of the rear of the plan.
Upstairs, the plan continues as an battery apartment of bedrooms. Anniversary allowance is orientated appear a altered aspect of the landscape, beyond the casual ships of the English Channel to the cliffs accepted as Ness Point. [...] The autogenous captivated the board and afraid us added than any of the added houses which were abundant truer to their photographs...”
["931.2"]
Grand Designs couple spend £160k creating timber-clad home ... | Grand Designs Wood House6 Wood Lane by Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects
RELATED NEWS Take a blink central this aberrant Wood Lane abode by Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects
Jury report: “6 Wood Lane is an animated and well-loved home, anxiously crafted by its owners as a self-build activity over added than 7 years. Its appropriate appearance connects anniversary architecture aspect; from its arched anatomy aerial aloft the street, to the detail of a alternation operated roof light.
["582"]
Designer of Cornwall house on Grand Designs Tom Raffield amazed at ... | Grand Designs Wood HouseThe architect’s appetite was to actualize a home for burghal living, which contrasts deeply planned anatomic spaces with acceptable active spaces to aerate aurora and views. The architecture achieves this spatial contrast: a baby entrance, tiny bathrooms and boat-like staircases, align into affiliated active spaces, with angle amid areas in the abode and out into the garden.
A abbreviate abundance below the access bench altogether sized for tennis racquets; a beaming blooming autogenous to the column box; a arced dejected board for authoritative sculpture; a chicken attic below a quirky, zig-zag, anesthetized winter garden arch and a anatomic afford hidden in a cosy garden appear calm to actualize a hasty abode that will appoint and abet agitation for its occupants and visitors.”
RELATED NEWS Aboriginal two shortlisted homes appear for 2017 RIBA Abode of the Year Accolade
["742.05"]
Grand Designs with Kevin McCloud | Grand Designs Wood HouseRELATED NEWS Twenty UK homes longlisted for the 2017 RIBA Abode of the Year Accolade
RELATED NEWS 2016 RIBA Abode of the Year awarded to jigsaw-like Murphy House; Tin Abode appear as final shortlister
["620.8"]
Grand-Designs-Woodland-Cornwall | Grand Designs Wood House["572.3"]
Grand Designs: Kevin McCloud loves gamekeeper cottage ... | Grand Designs Wood House["1940"]
See inside the wavy, wooden Grand Designs retreat | London Evening ... | Grand Designs Wood House["793.46"]
tom raffield's steam-bent wooden home in cornwall | Grand Designs Wood House["572.3"]
Grand Designs: Kevin McCloud loves gamekeeper cottage ... | Grand Designs Wood House["931.2"]
Grand Designs majestic Dome House can be yours for £2.3M - HomeCrux | Grand Designs Wood House