Living Architecture Journal

A House for Essex

30.10.19

Due to high demand, all holidays at A house for Essex are sold via a ballot. Each ballot offers you the chance to purchase a 2- or 3- night stay at A House for Essex, for up to 4 people.

The latest ballot for A House for Essex is now live, for stays from January to April 2020- enter here.

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Under our roof

04.06.19

The varying profile and outline of the roofs in Living Architecture houses

Colour and (Living) Architecture

10.04.19

Exploring the use of varying colour palettes in Living Architecture houses

A Room Of Their Own / A Place to Gather

22.01.19

How living architecture houses are designed to facilitate both coming together and being apart.

The Great British Seaside Holiday, Living Architecture Style

27.11.18

When Living Architecture set out to acquire sites for houses available for rent by discerning 21^st century holidaymakers, naturally we turned to the coast for likely – or unlikely – locations for leading architects to reinvent the seaside house.

Look Around You

19.09.18

Watching, observing and contemplation at Living Architecture houses

Slow Architecture: The Birth of Secular Retreat

22.07.18

Balancing Barn: a new idea of a country house

04.07.18

Too often, new houses built in the British countryside are pastiches, hybrids of Palladian/Classical/Tudor design. Balancing Barn, completed in 2010, became a part of the debate about what rural architecture could be.

Designing a (comfortable) work of art

15.06.18

The story of A House for Essex: designing a house for a fictional client

Less is more: the Living Architecture approach to the art of the garden

26.04.18

Curating gardens to look un-curated: how we have worked with nature (and professional designers) to create the gardens around our houses

Looking out, looking in - unexpected views at Living Architecture houses

04.04.18

Unusual views: the house, not always the world beyond, as the focus of Living Architecture houses

Building A Room For London

02.03.18

Constructing, installing and collaborating on A Room for London - here's a behind the scenes insight into how it happened.

A Room for London; from competition concept to the London skyline

27.02.18

As A Room for London embarks on a new voyage, leaving its current berth on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank, we reflect on the first part of the story of this unique building.