Architect Charles Tashima of Studio Tashima returns to a project on in the Mapesbury Conservation Area - an Edwardian semi extended with three woven-brick roof volumes. The focus of their work was on the ground floor where we were asked to improve the layout and use of the main living areas of the house. Important to the design was to maximise the quality and amount of light as well as connection to the garden and flow to the rest of the house. Externally, it was important to differentiate the extensions from the main house by using a dark, charcoal grey brick, setting up a contrasting yet complimentary relationship to the rich red coloured brick house.

Homeowner Patsy O'Neal and Smith & Newton Architects took a tired 1850s Victorian terrace in North London and gave it something it had never had — a bold, confident identity. The result is a home that doesn't shy away from colour or contrast, with a contemporary rear extension that opens the ground floor up to the garden in a way the original layout never allowed.

On a former storage yard in Balham, three diamond-shaped homes now occupy a site that most developers would have approached very differently. Rose Hip Yard is a small residential development that prioritises architectural ambition over formula — three distinct, precisely designed houses that prove what's possible when you refuse to default to the obvious.

The extension at Copeland Road arrived in four days. That's not a figure of speech — the three-storey timber structure was prefabricated offsite and craned into position in under a week, transforming this Walthamstow Victorian terrace with a speed and precision that traditional build methods simply couldn't match.