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00:00just for turning up darwin however he said that competition leads to evolution the means whereby
00:07we advance how we improve our lot and ourselves and so it is with the royal institute of british
00:14architects house of the year award 2025 knuckle-draggers not welcome in the great ecosystem
00:23of british housing these are the apex predators sharp instinctive and fully evolved that's clever
00:32oh heavens the judges have chosen a long list of britain's most remarkable new buildings
00:38oh this is really really good from houses that were a battle to build it was extreme living i
00:47would say i was sharing my caravan with my dog we didn't have a shower on site to those homes that
00:53positively glow oh my lord it's good from down below but it's better from up here because i know
00:59right the houses we explore will be whittled down to a short list of just seven the range on offer
01:06is really really exciting i think it'll be really exciting to see the house that wins and shines
01:11through before we find out in the final program which one is crowned house of the year 2025. so
01:19join us as we bring you this year's pinnacle of house building evolution
01:33so far three homes have claimed their place on the shortlist kirk and the craig on the isle of harris
01:55a home that takes you away to the caribbean hastings house a triumph of engineering and elegance
02:01and triangle house a home that takes you away to the caribbean
02:09now we have six more buildings to explore
02:13snooping around them with me is the architect damian burrows
02:17oh this is breathtaking and the conservation architect natasha huck oh my goodness please
02:26it's just so welcoming
02:29this time we're looking at houses that celebrate their materials and their craftsmanship and if you
02:34think that craft these days is all about hand whittled cotton buds or crocheted modesty toilet roll
02:42holders then think again because in the 21st century craftsmanship is expressed in buildings
02:48so expect concrete steel lasers alongside the usual timber and stone it's going to be risky
02:57it's going to be exciting it's going to be a little bit dangerous
03:04and in cambridge our first long lister comes with a health warning
03:09dangerously absorbing craftsmanship the sort that stops you in your tracks and could see you missing
03:16lunch tea and possibly winter well this is lovely this is mill hide outside weathered rust red steel
03:30inside cool white italian limestone a house of contrasts
03:38the
03:42architect owner tim and his wife liz what a lovely moment arriving here
03:51tucked into the cambridgeshire fenland mill hide is an extraordinary sculptural home it's designed
03:58around a central courtyard or winter garden with a giant roof light it actually opens
04:03all the rooms all the rooms are off this space there's a kitchen a living area come dining space then
04:10three bedrooms and three bathrooms all encased in what looks like a continuous skin of rusty steel
04:18i'd expect to find a cladding system of panels where the gaps are all millimeter equal
04:28but here they're very tightly butted tim is known as millimeter tim in the business round
04:34i like that though i mean we could do with a few more millimeter people i wanted this to appear as though
04:40it was a piece of solid steel but that skin is designed in such a way that there are no visible
04:47fixings the corners or the window reveals are always folded so you never see the thickness of the metal
04:53so that it actually gives you that feeling of total solidity that's really elegantly sorcery
05:02the inspiration for this was the work of the world famous sculptor richard serra
05:07who specialized in working with steel i mean he's a great sculptor and thinking about a piece of
05:14sculpture in the landscape you know you have to look at something like art in landscape in new zealand
05:19which is 280 meters of quarter and steel 40 millimeters thick six meters high and that was
05:27what i wanted to achieve
05:32step inside and holy illuminati it's bright white calm like walking into the center of a cloud
05:42you walk into the winter garden an internal courtyard at the center of the house
05:46from which all the rooms radiate the intention was you have open space on all four sides but the
05:55ability to actually close that off in such a way that those openings became part of the internal surface
06:02of the central court and you know so they have pivoted doors which well they do move they they do pivot
06:09yeah right so by a very simple motion oh very light they're just on a little they're on spring-loaded
06:19pivot spring oh wow that's so elegant so they land exactly where they should bye liz
06:25so with all the doors closed this becomes the gallery and it has that enclosure quality
06:32it's very very very clever indeed this is super satisfying because and i would expect nothing
06:38else to him the illusion and the integrity of that wall only works because everything's absolutely
06:47yeah flat in line and flush yeah millimeters again yeah
06:54that's not the only trick this space offers
06:56would you like to see the roof light open yeah i dearly would yeah i mean here we are we're inside
07:06the building so clear so clearly oh the entire thing slides oh heaven
07:26the light changes and shifts doors open and close and spaces change this house feels like a living
07:38breathing thing do you know when i first saw this place i thought goodness me that looks so calm
07:46and still and unchanging and almost impregnable you know then i realized of course inside it's the exact
07:53opposite its potential to change is vast it's changing all the time things are moving spaces are opening up
08:03just reminds me that great architecture has got very little to do with what things look like
08:10and much more to do with what places feel like
08:15we've seen one house so far five more to go until we find out which will be shortlisted for the house of
08:26the year 2025
08:40ah suburbia that curious british in between neatly balanced between the buzz of the city and the
08:48calm of the countryside a land built on brick bay windows garden walls decorative lintels each a quiet
08:57celebration of everyday craft our next house doesn't just nod to that tradition it reinvents it it is a
09:04love letter to local materials and a master class in modern craftsmanship
09:10lever and nicole set up their own architectural practice three years ago the chance to do their
09:24first project together came about one christmas at nicole's parents home it was very cramped
09:34one christmas we were trying to get everyone in the space we had it was impossible so lemma said
09:40i can make it better so he did so we said right get some plans done and have a look
09:50the house in norfolk was a beautiful victorian home with a leaky extension built in the 1990s
09:57the extension came down and instead lemma and nicole built this beautiful brick box for 500 000 pounds
10:10the new addition to the old house gives nicole's parents all the space they need for entertaining
10:19with a kitchen dining room and living space all in one all wrapped in beautiful brick detailing
10:28we looked around the local area and there's really beautiful detailing on a lot of the houses
10:34the particular ribbed brick work was inspired by the chimney on the house and the cast corbels were
10:42inspired by the dogtooth corbelling on the existing house so it's kind of a contemporary take on the
10:48existing details corbelling is where bricks jut out above one another dogtooth corbelling is where they
10:57stick out diagonally in a sharp point you see brick corbelling done but it doesn't have that point of
11:04difference that we wanted to kind of achieve when we were thinking about introducing contemporary element
11:08to the house that point of difference was using bricks in the middle and then concrete at the top
11:15to form continuous dogtooth panels it was cast in specially made molds cut from plastic foam
11:23these were placed into formwork boxes and then the concrete poured tinted brick red with dye
11:31in the back of the garden we had some fencing set up and a concrete mixer
11:36i mean it looked like a blood bath because it was pigmented concrete
11:41for a good like six months you'd know where we'd been every day you'd come home you'd rinse off your
11:45hands like lady macbeth when the first section of concrete was poured and had set
11:49the pressure was on it kind of started the stopwatch really where we had to rush to get
11:55everything cast in time for the bricklayers to come back and install it
12:00lemma and nicole had to race to cast the next piece of concrete before the bricklayer had
12:05finished the previous section of wall we had quite a gruelling casting schedule we had some days where
12:13we were casting and then the next day we'd be leaving them to set and then taking them out of
12:19the molds repairing the molds because we tried to reuse as many of them as possible and then the cycle
12:25would start again because we ended up doing the casting over winter so it obviously got cold it was
12:31very wet and there were some days where it got kind of closer to freezing so we had to be really looking
12:37at whether or not the concrete was set properly keeping it warm nothing on this project came easily
12:43just as outside the concrete was painstakingly cast by lemma and nicole
12:50so the kitchen living space inside was also hard won
12:55all the timber joinery was stained and oiled by them too
13:00what's more each piece of it had to be labeled and driven by them from their workshop in london
13:06to norfolk we put 15 000 miles on the clock it was a big sacrifice and a big personal effort
13:12overall to kind of keep things moving so what do nicole's parents make of it
13:18the kitchen has been transformed i'd be in the kitchen by myself cooking while they were all
13:25doing things in other rooms now people sit around the island or sit at the table
13:36and audience is important for this
13:43lots of people come and see it that's one of the first things we show them because they just all say
13:48i want the spice draw you did all the labeling yourself yes of course color coded i was color
13:55coded into like red for hot european and american
14:01american a color-coded spice draw lets you know that people here care perhaps a little too much
14:11this is a house built by passionate obsessives a testament to what's possible when you embrace
14:17the hard way chase the details and go all in on making something extraordinary
14:28many of us build our houses not just to please ourselves but also the neighbors
14:34to fit the postcode to conform to the planning rules
14:38but what if you didn't i mean what if you built something that quietly through
14:42caution and convention and the street's color palette to the wind and instead used its materials
14:48to stand apart at home with a distinct voice measured graceful and just provocative enough
14:57to feature in the neighborhood whatsapp group that would be something wouldn't it
15:01i'm in southwest london to see our next building that's not afraid to make an entrance
15:14on a beautiful riverside street like this each one of these houses is playing a careful game
15:20of one-upmanship but these houses politely jostle
15:25lower ham doesn't it throws bread rolls it's bold brilliant and as carefully crafted as a punk's mohawk
15:38it's a building that's loud proud full of poise and attitude
15:43this extraordinary home has a single-story extension and the tower the single-story section has a front
15:59office comfortable guest bedroom and downstairs bathroom there's also a spacious open plan kitchen
16:06connecting to a cozy snug beyond this there are two additional bedrooms both open directly onto a
16:13serene central courtyard garden in the tower on the ground floor there is a dining room the first
16:20floor is home to the main living area while the top floor is devoted to a luxurious master bedroom suite
16:28at the rear of the house is a garden space complete with a versatile summer house that doubles as an office
16:35the owner is retired marketing director john
16:42walking up the street this makes an impression i mean it stands out it's really quite splendid
16:49it is somewhat different and if i had one pound for everybody that they commented on it stopped and
16:55photographed it i could have paid for the whole house
16:57this is a fantastic approach and what an entrance
17:08could we have a moment for this door the scale of this john i mean it's huge yes it is i mean the
17:17material quality here this is brass isn't it yes yeah that is not something you would normally use on a
17:22door it's heavy it's expensive it's something that you would normally use for a door handle or a letter
17:28box yes it sets the scene for the whole house i think this attention to detail you will find goes
17:34through the house as a whole and that's a tribute to the architects
17:41step inside and the loud shapes and extravagant materials on the outside soften to something more serene
17:52to have a courtyard garden here is quite something the way that this corner just flies around totally
18:00unsupported you're performing structural gymnastics yes and that's not all because this door
18:07and this glass all around the courtyard opens up so the kitchen effectively becomes part of the
18:14courtyard and it's an ideal place for breakfast lunch and dinner
18:18so often you go into a house and you've got a corridor and three rooms or whatever
18:26and i thought it would be very nice to happen where you walk in and you see different aspects of the
18:33house as you walk through it if downstairs is about the calm practical day-to-day the tower is where the fun
18:42happens where guests get to enjoy the house in the first floor living room this house is all about
18:50the entertaining yes it is and part of entertaining of course is theater exactly so you have the kitchen
18:56downstairs you've got the movement through to the dining lounge and then drinks in the lounge upstairs or
19:02on the summer's evening drinks on the terrace where the sun's shining and you can have pre-dinner
19:07drinks out there or pre-dinner drinks out here and post-dinner drinks out there or post-dinner things
19:13out there seem to be a lot of drinks john well there are a lot of corks downstairs there are
19:22entertaining here isn't an afterthought it's the whole point like any star venue it needs a grand entrance
19:31oh they are enormous so the architect ian crane gave it one it's not even just the height i mean look
19:42at the width of these i mean how tall is this well they're just under six meters high where do you even
19:50begin to get a piece of glass that size there are only a couple of companies in the uk that can
19:55manufacture glass of this size and scale and eventually we've chose a company who are based in turkey so
20:01transporting these bits of glass across europe was fraught with danger ultimately the windows
20:06went in just before christmas and it was a bit like today very windy these large pieces of glass
20:12going in at a high level just the day before christmas one small thing on the side of the
20:17building and then you lose a piece of glass you'll be back to square one again mercifully there were no
20:24breakages what's really impressive about this house is the effortless ease with which it guides
20:30you around it from room to room it's a place that encourages exploration and rewards you for doing it
20:45most houses are containers for the chaos in our lives the stress and the pressure of work
20:53but this house well this is very different this steps in and it intervenes from the moment you walk
21:01up the grand staircase to that beautiful brass door this house takes over the continuous lines of the
21:08brickwork guide you through there you have options do you travel up to the tower and admire the views of the
21:15river or do you dwell in the serenity of this courtyard at every single moment this house steps in and
21:24slows your life down and that's a very very special thing
21:29we've seen three houses so far that take you on holiday and we have three more to see before we
21:37find out which will win a place on the shortlist
21:48water towers lighthouses old electricity substations i mean these are all building types which are are ripe for
21:54for conversion to residential use of course the time honored conversion is that of the humble agricultural barn
22:02but what if you did a barn conversion which was minimal which stripped out the interior took it back to
22:11its raw powerful earthy barniness i mean that could be amazing couldn't it any downside i can think of is
22:20that you'd end up living in a barn like a cow
22:29i'm in essex to visit our next long lister
22:33for a self-built project in a rural location barn conversions make a lot of sense
22:40first of all you have a large open space that you can cut up as you see fit
22:43then the planning process is easier because there's already a structure there
22:48and hopefully the building itself will have lots of character that you can play with
22:57though all too often that character is the first casualty of barn conversions
23:02as the inside gets carved up to create as many rooms as possible
23:06as possible not here though not with this 18th century threshing barn
23:12this is jank's barn a relic of rural life carefully conserved and elegantly reimagined
23:21inside this remarkable old structure under the cathedral-like ceiling there is a living space
23:28kitchen area and dining space and on top of a pulpit-like structure built within
23:33as a study off the main space there are two separate bedrooms
23:42it was commissioned by landscape designer joe
23:46hi joe hi natasha very nice to meet you and you too how are you very well thank you thank you
23:52oh look at this place it's just so welcoming it had been used as a barn we think until the 60s and 70s
24:03and then my neighbors who sold the barn to me uh they've been here for 25 years and they thought
24:10that they would one day do the barn themselves but they didn't get round to it and then they decided to
24:16sell pass the baton pass the baton to me exactly and so when i first saw it it was full of
24:23family staff goodness it was their storeroom bicycles there was a rowing boat
24:28chests of drawers you name it it was in there
24:34when joanne enlisted her architect the brief was simple
24:37retain the barn's character do only what was necessary don't change anything unless you have to
24:44the brief for me was to allow the bomb to retain its agricultural feel is it okay for you look inside
24:54absolutely come in oh wow look at this
25:03step in and you're greeted by this breathtaking space the original barn volume left intact no mezzanines
25:10no partitions no white plasterboard the judges were impressed by the care and conservation taken
25:17by all involved i didn't want to put in a mezzanine floor i didn't want to have anything that would
25:25interfere with the original structure i wanted it to be left in its original huge volume because this is
25:34how it was built and how it has stayed for the last 250 years so we've kept to the original division
25:43between what were lean twos and what was the main threshing barn
25:51there is a lot of respect for the historic structure here so the new elements sit entirely apart from it
25:56we introduced three black objects into the building there's the study platform
26:08there's the kitchen and the wood burning stove but none of them touches the wall so they're all
26:17freestanding so the barn almost acts as the gallery to host these three pieces of sculpture yes in a way
26:24i think that the timber frame is like a work of art absolutely and the star of the show and is
26:31respected and loved and left in its original form well most of it you'd never know at first glance but
26:39some of this ancient timber had to be replaced by the craft and expertise of one man dr joseph bispham
26:46i signed my indenture as a carpenter and joiner on the 23rd of june 1963. oh goodness so i've been doing
26:53carpentry and joining for quite a long time we've lost so much of our history and this is in a way
27:01fairly unique with essex because they're not common these field bars and there was a time when it was
27:07a scrap it mentality so everything would be knocked down to repair the barn joseph carefully removes the
27:14rotten parts and then scarves in new pieces a scarf is an old piece of timber to a new piece so if you look
27:22at that then that's a scarf and a good example is this piece of oak here so if that was a post and
27:30we were scarfing in then that would be the tenant to hold on the plate and that will be the running
27:35scarf that will go on to the the existing piece of timber so this is the replacement this is the repair
27:41right because you're looking at something that's rotted away at the bottom so it's about minimal
27:46intervention but it needs to stand the test of time it's not just new timber that's scarfed in either
27:54there you've used a salvaged piece yeah so it's this mix of old new salvage yes i mean where we could
28:02we use every piece of timber there's no bonfires here yes nothing you know so even small pieces of
28:08timber they'll most probably have a job before before before the job is finished the architects
28:22were patrick lynch and rachel elliott there's something about the presence of old buildings
28:29like you can just see the notches and the cuts and the workmanship and so there's this friendly ghosts
28:34it's not alienating but it's also a bit uncanny the more you look at historic buildings and are
28:39able to read them you know that there were phases in this building we know that the mid-stray was cut
28:45in later we know this wall had to be rebuilt in the 80s because there were cattle in here and they
28:51pushed the wall over i mean i'd find that really interesting and a great part of working on historic
28:56buildings this is conservation not by freezing time but by working with what
29:04was there repairing it honoring how it was made and allowing something new to emerge
29:12this project is a careful restoration that finds beauty in the craft of what was once a purely
29:19functional building by celebrating the work that went into making it and by adding a few sympathetic
29:26additions this building has been given a new elegant life and become a beautiful home for joanne
29:34so there is one british instinct which is is deeply embedded it's almost genetic and that's the
29:44instinct to avoid making a fuss and we queue quietly we say sorry when we open the door for somebody else
29:52although we've never apologized for stealing the elgin marbles when it comes to design of course we also
29:58like our buildings to be a little modest to be quieter polite something that knows its context and when
30:06to keep its voice down but what if what if that modesty was a mask what if playing it down was how
30:13you got away with something much bigger you know well it takes is a little camouflage to smuggle in a bit of
30:21architectural daring well our next long lister in wales has pulls that trick off rather nicely
30:31this is kreuz vach outside you see local black mountain stone and a familiar barn-like form
30:40inside it's got all the elegance and architectural drama of a danish design gallery
30:45the riba judges praised how highly crafted and well-built it was inside and out
30:53he wanted to try to develop something which is of now which is contemporary but not in such a way
31:00which is unduly insensitive or likely to be alienating to people
31:08it sits into the slope with a raised drive that curves around the back of the house
31:13you enter into a double height hallway with an office and granny annex in one direction
31:20then along the other corridor there are five bedrooms and a family bathroom with access to the
31:25garden heading upstairs there's a tv room at one end with a playroom toilets and utility rooms hidden
31:34along the back all connected by a large kitchen living diner that opens onto the view
31:42it was commissioned by fernanda and ben who bought the plot with an existing house on it hoping they
31:48might extend it slightly just making some changes in the rooms making some room bigger expanding some
31:54areas yeah modifying some other ones at the same time we were also multiplying the amount of children
32:00we had so we were quickly realizing we were running out of bedrooms
32:04so they decided to knock it down and build an upside down house that took advantage of the view
32:10living space at the top bedrooms on the bottom floor perfect if you're small quick and prefer to
32:16start your day without adult supervision we sleep on the bottom we can open the door from our room
32:24so we can just go like to play outside whenever we want kind of in the morning i like to feed the
32:30chickens because that's when they start that's when they wake up so i feed the chickens at that time so
32:37they start laying eggs then they can head upstairs where the grown-up architectural magic happens
32:48you're not completely entitled to see the view until you actually reach the top of the stairs
32:54yeah a proper bit of theater once you get to the top it doesn't reveal itself until the very end
33:02i kind of like wow
33:06yes it is a single open space wrapped in glass aimed straight at the welsh mountains beautiful
33:16but where's all the stuff
33:17i can show you a secret which is the favorite of the family and it's this lava cupboard which we design
33:27to be able to hide all the little mess that we can create as a family and once it's done
33:34you close your dogs back again which are very easy and then it all get hidden away
33:40they've gone a step further than that they've built a 15 meter wall in walnut to hide entire rooms
33:50all the messy stuff off the back of the main living area so things like the playroom the water closet
33:57the utility area all of that's hidden away behind this main wall
34:04this is a house that makes the best of its setting with materials that help make it feel
34:10part of this magical place we always say how lucky we are you can't get bored so it's just nice
34:23we've seen five beautifully crafted homes so far one more to go before we find out which have been
34:30shortlisted
34:44i'm off to suffolk to visit our next house on the long list by a master architect and craftsman
34:51and i've got a personal reason for visiting this one
34:53just down here there's a house by an architect who i have long admired james gorst
35:03so it's with a little trepidation that i approach because i'm not expecting to be disappointed
35:13i don't want to be disappointed
35:16at the edge of a village here where thatch and brick meet field and
35:20shed sits something unexpected okay here we are not a cottage not a barn but something else
35:33i'm not sure i've come to the right building i mean this is just a wall and a garage
35:40although the garage is beautifully detailed with a oh a double roof and a chain pipe and a oh douglas
35:52fur cladding and the wall are the wall is l-shaped and it is monumental
35:59this is a mento four timber pavilions stitched together by sick brick walls as if they predate
36:12the buildings that lean against them the douglas fur interiors are crafted with the precision of a
36:18cabinet maker every joint every line and surface calmly exact
36:29the house is split into quadrants
36:36one has the entrance hall with boot room and garage
36:40the second quadrant has a snug and master bedroom
36:43the third contains two bedrooms and a bathroom
36:49and the fourth has the living and dining area with a kitchen
36:56hi hello sorry i i let myself in its owners are liz and peter very nice to meet you and you liz
37:03yeah yes peter peter how are you i'm still trying to figure out the plan of it because it's got
37:09it looks like a shed next to a great big wall is that right well it's actually three walls
37:14it's a broken cruciform so there were a series of sheds here that were run down and neglected for
37:20probably decades and james gorst was quick to pick up on that see anybody else would just say i'll just
37:27do you a bunch of sheds what james does is say i'm going to do you a bunch of sheds on steroids with
37:30this great big monumental wall slicing through so what was your brief low maintenance easy to clean
37:37calm single level living we didn't want to use the b word which was bungalow but you might have used
37:43the b plural word which is bungalows that's much more attractive the RIBA judges praised the confidence
37:54and craft in the building noting particularly the sharpness of the brickwork two brothers built the
38:01walls they did it themselves 40 000 bricks they're beautifully done and same with our joiner
38:06but when you look at the work you could see that there was enjoyment in putting this house up
38:11you can see it expressed in the craftsmanship
38:17inside you walk along one of the great spine brick walls into the kitchen quarter of the house
38:26the kitchen is then incorporated into the rest of the building this is one large volume
38:30and a giant celebration of one material douglas fur wood everything in the kitchen in douglas fur
38:39you've got douglas fur cutlery how far does it extend we wanted to use the same material throughout to
38:48create an overall very calm palette and so as you look through everything is just seamless
38:57there's mullions those big posts are magnificent they take the rhythms of the ceiling and they carry
39:04them into the floor and wherever it's used it's sort of it's giving you a hug it's a it's a huggable material
39:13even the brick feels softer here somehow outside it looks like it's slicing the house into four neat chunks
39:21but inside you realize the walls don't divide they invite you through and what's through here through
39:31the oh douglas fur door a burst of color oh so there is the wall sharply separates the pale colors of the
39:40wood and brick from an ocean of blue i'm beginning to see the walls is quite kind of powerful presences when
39:47the kids they're young adults now uh when they come home this is their private space yeah what's
39:54very nice is that it does feel very adult so it's not like returning to their old bedrooms in a family
39:59home with the posters on the wall and they feel like they're regressing every time they come home
40:06part of the idea for the house came from the sheds that were here before
40:11the rest came from the mind of its designer james gorst the little fantasy i had in my head was that
40:18these walls represented the work of some previous civilization and at a later date people came along
40:24and thought we can have these four quadrants and make them useful and so these much more human scale
40:31mono pitches were fitted around
40:34although the business of actually building his vision was nerve-wracking when the house first went
40:42up i had that terrible sinking feeling when you think you've just got something really wrong when
40:48you came here and saw these expletive deleted walls it just looked so massive and gaunt and i did think
40:56what the hell have i done here but it's okay now and that's the nature of architecture you know often
41:03you are being a bit brave with scale and initially it can be a bit concerning who dares wins it's always
41:12a worry meeting your heroes but a mento does not disappoint you can use brick and timber to do a job
41:20hold up a roof clad a wall but as the architect louis khan said even a brick wants to be something more
41:28it takes a real master of their craft somebody like james gorst to take these materials and make
41:40them sing i mean really sing to write a song for them which speaks of their hopes and their memories
41:51we've explored six remarkable homes but which will make the shortlist
41:59mill hide brutal corten on the outside butter smooth limestone within
42:10cast corbel house a suburban semi with big ambitions a brick-built piece of architectural chutzpah
42:17lower ham part riverside folly part tuscan daydream there's a brass front door a tower
42:27and just enough restraint to stop it becoming a bomb set
42:32jank's barn the glorious timber-framed relic brought back from the brink
42:39croissbach a welch farmhouse for the 21st century that hugs the hillside and embraces the view
42:46and a mento so minimal it's practically monastic just air lights and the quiet confidence of a
42:56building that's reached enlightenment
43:01on the jury is livia wang so how many projects from this category have you shortlisted two two
43:09what's your first a mento a mento there was so much potential for these two different types of
43:14uh material languages in terms of how they meet but also what the gardens were doing in each section
43:20of the site that had just been divided up how successful do you think it was for its rigor and
43:25thoroughness i mean i think the thing that's really successful about this building is the use of
43:30materials and how finely it's all been detailed that's wonderful news that's really oh that's really
43:38good very very pleased to hear that so you've got a second project you've shortlisted in this category
43:43what is it jank's barn right that's surprising for me because it's a very very historical
43:52building so much of it is is about conservation oh but the way they did it every single beam
43:58every single little pearl and even the little pieces of wood holding it all together were just
44:03cared for so well it's an essay and loving the original barn and that's not what every single
44:10conservation project is about this is not a bog standard barn conversion this is one that really
44:15makes you think everyone knows every single piece of wood that's great absolutely thrilled
44:24so jack's barn and amento take their place on the shortlist alongside hastings house kirk and the craig
44:35and triangle house we have just two more places on the shortlist before we find out who will be
44:43crowned house of the year 2025. good homes and i mean really good homes they don't try to be anything
44:53they're not they're quietly confident singular unmistakably themselves judy garland said be a
45:00first-rate version of yourself and never a second-rate version of somebody else that's what these homes
45:07do they follow no template they chase no trends they're built with courage and conviction and they
45:14are pure expressions of the people who dared to imagine them and the people then who made them real
45:20and that to me that is an absolute mark of beauty next time we'll explore houses which are extraordinary
45:32transformations it's so lush six more homes that challenge the way we live oh my word it's stunning
45:40and we'll discover the riba house of the year winner this project's just been ambitious on so many levels
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