Tag: house renovation design

Architects Sarah Wigglesworth’s and Piers Taylor’s self-designed renovations feature in this roundup of British houses that have recently been retrofitted and insulated to improve their energy efficiency.

The UK’s housing is among the oldest and most poorly insulated in Europe, with the majority also depending on gas for heating.

With spiraling energy costs and increased awareness about the industry’s environmental impact, this poor energy performance has come under scrutiny in recent months.

A series of British architects recently told Dezeen that aging homes must be retrofitted and properly

The San Francisco midcentury gem that is Beacon House has an interesting origin story. Built in the 1960s to the era’s modernist architecture style, full of wood, soft light and open spaces, it is now the family home of an architect and a biologit, who one day, walking down the street, saw it and joked that this would be their ideal home. Their dream soon became a reality when the residence went on the market, and the couple quickly snapped it up. They then went to family friend Vivian Lee of architecture studio Edmonds + Lee, to help with the