Architecture and interior design thread

Be aware that it fades quite quickly in sunlight; friends had theirs installed a year ago, and it's already sun-bleached near french doors.

Lifting the doormat really shows how much it's faded.

Nah - they were fancy encaustic tiles to their own colours. But they could have got exactly the same from about a mile away on Columbia Road (as we did).

This is his firm and the way over budget house that was on C4.
interesting that his own house isn’t mentioned on the site:

https://www.graemewilliamsonarchitects.com/channel-4-house

Apologies if already linked..

https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-house-of-the-year

We’ve had cork (glue down 30cm tiles) in the bathroom since around 2006, no issues so far.

Nice that’s one to scan over a cuppa later.

The brutalist country house in Argyll is quite something.

This is going up near me, I took these last month, I’ll swing by (hopefully) over the weekend for another peak. Really digging the roofs that don’t meet and the whole walls and roofs in the same material.

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Good luck replacing the roof when it inevitable fails in 20-30 years.

Because there will be no trees left for wood?

Thankfully the bedroom gets no direct sunlight so should be fine there.

I need a new floor in my upstairs office, may go cork or try something else, wood too noisy?

Oh that looks good.
Is this 5 trades 5 cars?

I thought on the program they said it was due to the foundations not having enough cement content so not water proof rather than not thick enough, hence the solution was an internal tanking.

Edit - behind on the thread.

This is my dream house close to Berlin.
https://www.archdaily.com/971877/rieckshof-photo-studio-helga-blocksdorf-architektur

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It's amazing, but I really don't like it.
Very showy.

https://www.6630heartwood.com/

Nice, but a step too far for me.
But what do I know. I’d have this in a heartbeat https://architectureindevelopment.org/project/121

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It’s right next to a cricket ground and there was a match on.

It’s the Green House for me.

Ha OK. We've got a south facing kitchen so this is likely going to happen with most option I would have thought? Unless LVT / Marmoleum doesn't fade with sun?

This is great! Is it just a single layer of wood? I don't see any insulation?

I’m pretty sure it’s a ply-foam-ply sandwich, but as it’s only an office studio I don’t think it’s done to any real level. That and it’s almost 20 years ago the regs were less demanding.
We found an old falling down cow shed/barn thing a few years ago and I wanted to do the same sort of thing. It was rectangular, had a solid floor that we could have drilled some ground anchors though and sat the house on. Alas it sold for way too much and Liz still isn’t convinced of the idea. Especially as I wanted to leave a good third of the barn empty as a inside, outside terrace.

I’d go with the cork, we had it upstairs in our first place, warm, soft and above all not carpet. It did change colour and fade over time, but so has the oak in our now house. Just embrace the way it changes, oh and move you rugs around…

This is in the unrealistic dream houses category. Also bit far.