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Small Projects 2013

The AJ Small Projects awards are an annual search for the best architecture built on a budget of less than £250,000

Laura Dewe Mathews’ £245,000 urban infill dwelling in London won this year’s AJ Small Projects Award (2013)

‘Gingerbread House’ wins AJ Small Projects 2013 Award

30-Jan-2013

Laura Dewe Mathews’ £245,000 urban infill dwelling in London has won this year’s AJ Small Projects Award

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In pictures: all the action from the AJ Small Projects' speed crit

30-Jan-2013

An intriguing behind-the-scenes peek at the two minute speed crits by the 24 AJ Small Projects 2013 finalists during yesterday’s judging

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The greenest shortlist: AJ Small Projects 2013 part 2

17-Jan-2013

A concern for sustainability shines through in a greater number of submissions this year and, encouragingly, not just in temporary structures, writes Hattie Hartman

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How we choose a shortlist: AJ Small Projects 2013 part 1

10-Jan-2013

The high quality of submissions has made it a tough call but this year’s shortlist is perhaps the strongest ever, writes Rory Olcayto

Shortlisted projects

The Great Eye, Cley, Norfolk by Hudson Architects (2012) Cost: £10,000.


Court House, London by Coffey Architects (2012) Cost: £242,000.


Cambridge Cat Clinic, Fulbourne, Cambridge by Gort Scott (2012) Cost: £156,000.


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115 Golden Lane, London by Amin Taha Architects (2012) Cost: £120,000.


Shoffice, London by Platform 5 Architects (2012) Cost: £67,845.


The Cube, Henfeild, West Sussex by Rundell Associates (2012) Cost: £125,000.


Box house, London by Laura Drewe Mathews (2012) Cost: £245,000.


Roominaroom, London by Atmos Studio (2012) Cost: £19,000.


Hawthbush, East Sussex by Mole Architects (2011) Cost: £220,000.


House V-C, Lede, Belgium by AAVA (2011) Cost: £96,000.


Stahkwerk Anbau, Finkernagel Ross Architects (2012) Cost: £162,000.


Transient Gallery by Gras, Venice (2012) Cost: £2,800.


Hut, West Yorkshire by Studio BAAD (2012) Cost: £35,000.


Chelsea Workspace, London by Synthesis Design + Architecture (2012) Cost: £7,000.


Rijeka Diving Tower, Rijeka by Studio Zoppini Associati (2012) Cost: £204,000.


Forest Pond House, Hampshire by TDO Architecture (2012) Cost: £7,500.


The London Dresser, London by SOCA with University of Westminster (2012) Cost: £93,000.


The Movement Cafe, Greenwich by Studio Myerscough (2012) Cost: £90,000.


The Greenhouse, Hampshire by Design ACB (2011) Cost: £190,000.


Duke of York Garden Units, London by vPPR Architects (2012) Cost: 125,000.


The Old Telephone Exchange, Wiltshire by Stephen Turvil Architects (2012) Cost: £120,000.


Caretaker’s House, Hooke Park by Invisible Studio, Architectural Association students (2012) Cost: £170,000.


Long Studio, Norfolk by Threefold Architects (2011) Cost: £37,500.


Reception Gallery and Toilets for Ruwenzori Sculpture Foundation, Kasese by Kilburn Nightingale Architects (2012) Cost: £37,145.


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Marley Eternit and the AJ Small Projects Award

Marley Eternit is proud to be sponsoring the AJ Small Projects Award

The Sheiling by APD Architecture photos by Jenni Brown

APD extends Lochside villa

12-Feb-2013

APD Architecture has renovated and expanded a Victorian villa on the banks of Loch Fyne in Argyll, west Scotland

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McGill students create twisted lattice pavilion

4-Feb-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] ContemPLAY pavilion at McGill University’s campus in Montreal has opened to the public

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Child Graddon Lewis completes Egyptian tower house

31-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Child Graddon Lewis has released these images of house made from salt, mud and palm trees in Egypt

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Making a splash: Chris Dyson unveils Kensington fountain

31-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Chris Dyson Architects have installed a hard landscaped garden in west London

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Tom Jenkins' reveals new studio in C16th ruin

30-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Tom Jenkins has revealed new photographs of this studio on the coast of Fife in Scotland

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Alma-nac remodels Slim House

30-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Alma-nac Collaborative Architecture have extensively remodeled and extended a 2.3m wide terraced house in Clapham, south London

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Tog Studio creates temporary Scottish lighthouse

29-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Students from the Tog ‘live-build’ summer school erected a temporary wooden lighthouse on the Isle of Tiree

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Zone revives generic 1970s estate house

24-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Zone Architects has transformed a Bett Homes catalogue house in St Andrews

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Chester's King Charles Tower restore by Donald Insall

23-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Donald Insall Associates has completed the £202,000 restoration of the King Charles Tower, in Chester

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Back on the road: John Maguire overhauls NI petrol station

23-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] John Maguire Architects has added a shop and reconfigured the forecourt of a service station in Northern Ireland

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Paul Cocksedge Studio weaves nylon auditorium

18-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Paul Cocksedge Studio has revealed new photographs and plans of his ‘woven’ auditorium for trade show 100% Design

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Mews with views: Threefold creates house of many terraces

18-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] AJ Small Projects shortlisted practice, Threefold Architects has refurbished a 1950s mews house in Camden

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NEX revamps Architectural Association bookshop

17-Jan-2013

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Emerging practice NEX has designed the interior and furniture for an architectural bookshop within the Architectural Association’s Grade I-listed building in central London

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linearchitecture unveils 'brick box' home

24-Dec-2012

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] linearchitecture has completed a ‘finely detailed brick box’ home in a conservative suburb of Belfast

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Adam Knibb unveils timber clad pool house

14-Dec-2012

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Emerging practice Adam Knibb Architects has completed this pre-fabricated pool house in Crawley

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Stephen Taylor's Shatwell Farm welcomes first cows

10-Dec-2012

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Stephen Taylor Architects has completed a cowshed at Shatwell Farm in Somerset

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Starlets squeeze three-storey home onto tiny plot

23-Nov-2012

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] Emerging practice 31/44 Architects have entered this three storey house in Lewisham, London, into this year’s AJ Small Projects Awards

Victoria Road by Oliver Bayliss photography by Andy Matthews

Oliver Bayliss unveils black timber extension

20-Nov-2012

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Oliver Bayliss has entered this house extension in Queen’s Park, London into this year’s AJ Small Projects Awards

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