The video shows the an end-of-terrace house in west London. A crisp concrete bay projecting from the textured brick facade of the house, which features a fully glazed rear required to reduce disrupting light to neighbouring properties.

The house in the Kensington area occupies a site damaged by bombing in the second world war and was designed by East London architecture studio Liddicoat & Goldhill, which has also transformed an 18th-century barn into a home featuring a staircase that wraps around its chimney and completed an extension to a south London home featuring an oak-screened staircase and double-height windows.

Liddicoat & Goldhill was asked by a developer to propose a new residence to complete an existing terrace of Victorian townhouses. A complex combination of restrictions and challenging circumstances influenced the design of the building, including the carefully controlled budget, risk of flooding, several party wall negotiations, the compact site and the need to maintain the rights to light of the adjacent houses.
The resulting property extends the building line of the terrace and complements the surrounding streetscape's material palette, whilst introducing modern details in response to the varying awkward conditions.

"The house succeeds in neither aping neighbours, nor becoming an aggregation of responses to different legislative requirements," said a statement released by the architects. "Instead, the project seeks to create a new London ...