
Ian McChesney – Turney Road, Southward
Photography: Adam Scott

Platform 5 Architects – Facet House, Hackney
Photography: Alan Williams

Bureau de Change – Folds, Haringey

Ashton Porter Architects – Cut and Frame House, Enfield
Photography: Andy Stagg

Alexander Owen Architecture – Craig and Siobhan’s Place, Wandsworth
Photography: Tom St. Aubyn

Gibson Thornley – Jam Factory, Southwark
Photography: Simon Kennedy

Fraher Architects – The Lantern, Richmond

Inside Out Architecture – Warner House, Camden
Photography by Jim Stephenson

Tsuruta Architects – House of Trace, Lewisham
Photography: Tim Crocker

Architecture for London – Calabria Road, Islington
Photography by Jim Stephenson

Michael Trentham Architects – Grange Yard, Southwark

Archmongers – Clock House, Islington
Photography: French + Tye

Ben Adams Architects – Camden Town House, Camden
Photography: Edmund Sumner

Chris Dyson Architects – Kenworthy House, Hackney
Photography: Peter Landers

Giles Pike Architects – Sewdley Street, Hackney
Photography: Logan McDougall Pope

David Kohn Architects – Sanderson House, Islington
Photography: Will Pryce

Alan Morris Architect – Healey Street Rooftop, Camden

Denizen Works – Extension One, Islington
Photography: David Barbour

forresterarchitects – Harcombe, Hackney

Levitate – Shoreditch Loft, Hackney
Photography: Charles Hosea

Poulson / Middlehurst – Reighton Road, Hackney
Photography: Andy Spain

West Architecture – Fitzrovia House, Camden
Photography: Peter Cook

Neil Dusheiko Architects – Brackenbury House, Hammersmith & Fulham
Photography: Tim Crocker

Lipton Plant Architects – Talbot Road, Haringey
Photography: Charles Hosea

Russian For Fish – College Road, Brent
Photography: Peter Landers

Mustard Architects – Nook House, Hackney
Photography: Tim Crocker

Tigg Coll Architects – House for Agnes, Hammersmith & Fulham
Photography: Andy Matthews

Patalab Architecture – The Gables, Camden
Photography: Lyndon Douglas & Jan Piotrowicz

Studio 30 Architects – Shepherd’s Bush Extension, Hammersmith & Fulham
Photography: Salt Productions

Paul Archer Design – Kelross House, Islington
Photography: Will Pryce

Paul Archer Design – Max House, Islington
Photography: Nick Guttridge

Paul Archer Design – Bhalerao House, Brent
Photography: Will Pryce

Scenario Architecture – London Fields, Hackney
Photography: Matt Clayton
Digging into the basement (and annoying the neighbours) isn’t the only way to extend your home.
These 33 projects – shortlisted for New London Architecture’s ‘Don’t Move, Improve!’ awards – show how to build upwards, outwards and out the back of your property.
Now in their sixth year, the awards shine a light on designs in London’s conservation areas where rigid planning rules are in place.

One nominee, Fraher Architects, slotted a vertical, brick-clad extension into the void of a listed building in Richmond. Ben Adams Architects also made the shortlist for their redesign of a Camden terraced house, creating a new kitchen and dining area that opens out on its back garden.
The need for extra living space was the driving force behind many of these projects but some extensions were the result of changing work habits.

Photography: Andy Stagg
Ashton Porter Architects, for example, created two separate working areas for the owners of a house in Enfield – one of whom is a children’s author and the other a therapist.
A three-month exhibition of the 33 shortlisted nominees, alongside 51 other submitted projects, is set to begin at The Building Centre in London next month. Winners in the ‘Don’t Move, Improve!’ awards will be announced on Thursday 21 January 2016.