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The garden steps up steeply to the rear of the site, and the window sill in the living room and DJ booth are close to ground level. “When you’re sitting in the living area, it feels like the garden is flowing into the interior,” says architect Simon Knight.

The home is in Finchley Central, North London. The clients, Fran and Dave, are hoping to soon add a sebum roof to the extension—a feature that was always part of the plan but was put on hold for budget reasons. “It helps with reducing water run-off and improves biodiversity,” explains architect Simon Knight. “It also gives a nice aspect from the first floor.”

Ben Warwas set a slider by Western Window Systems at a diagonal beneath the overhang created by the second floor.

A refrigerator, drawers, and storage space are cleverly tucked into the side of the staircase.

Working pro bono for a single mother and her two children, No Architects creates an experimental home with a vaulted roof, permeable walls, and custom furniture.

Arthur Elrod House, John Lautner, 1968.

Located in La Unión, a city and commune in Chile’s Los Ríos region, Refugio 3x3 is set in a forest on the side of a new lot of residential houses that were built in response to the recent expansion of city limits.

The never-built Kalevala House (Kalevalatalo in Finnish) was designed in 1921 by Eliel Saarinen to be a monument of sorts to Finnish cultural studies and nationalism in Helsinki. Courtesy of Museum of Finnish Architecture, published in Atlas of Never Built Architecture (Phaidon, May 2024)