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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 oh that's
00:31clever oh 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.
01:19so join us as we bring you this year's pinnacle of house building evolution
01:34so far three homes have claimed their place on the shortlist kirk and the craig on the isle of harris
01:55hastings hastings house a triumph of engineering and elegance and triangle house
02:04a home that takes you away to the caribbean now we have six more buildings to explore
02:13snooping around them with me is the architect damian burrows oh this is breathtaking and the
02:21conservation architect natasha huck oh look at this place it's just so welcoming this time we're
02:30looking at houses that celebrate their materials and their craftsmanship and if you think that craft
02:35these days is all about hand whittled cotton buds or crocheted modesty toilet roll holders then think
02:42again because in the 21st century craftsmanship is expressed in buildings so expect concrete steel
02:51lasers alongside the usual timber and stone it's going to be risky it's going to be exciting
02:59it's going to be a little bit dangerous
03:04and in cambridge our first long lister comes with a health warning dangerously absorbing craftsmanship
03:11the sort that stops you in your tracks and could see you missing lunch tea and possibly winter
03:20well this is lovely this is mill hide outside weathered rust red steel
03:30inside cool white italian limestone a house of contrasts
03:36you in your house you're in your house you're in your house you're in your house you're in your house
03:39hello brought together by its architect 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 all the rooms are
04:05off this space there's a kitchen a living area come dining space then three bedrooms and three bathrooms
04:13all encased in what looks like a continuous skin of rusty steel
04:18all i'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
04:35i like that though i mean we could do with a few more millimeter people
04:39i wanted this to appear as though it was a piece of solid steel but that skin is designed in such a way
04:45that there are no visible fixings the corners or the window reveals are always folded so you never
04:51see the thickness of the metal so that it actually gives you that feeling of total solidity that's
04:57really elegantly sorcery the 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 landscaping new zealand
05:19which is 280 meters of corten steel 40 millimeters thick six meters high and that was what i wanted to achieve
05:32step inside and holy illuminati it's bright white calm like walking into the center of a cloud
05:41you walk into the winter garden an internal courtyard at the center of the house from which all the rooms
05:48radiate the intention was you have open space on all four sides but the ability to actually close that
05:56off in such a way that those openings became part of the internal surface of the central court and you
06:04know so they're pivoted doors which well they do move they they do pivot yeah right so by a very simple
06:12motion oh very light they're just on a little they're on spring-loaded pivots spring oh wow that's so
06:20elegant so they land exactly where they should bye liz bye
06:24so whether all the doors closed this becomes the gallery and it has that enclosure quality
06:33very very clever indeed this is super satisfying because and i would expect nothing else to him
06:40the illusion and the integrity of that wall only works because everything's absolutely yeah
06:48flat in line and flush millimetres again yeah that's not the only trick this space offers
06:58would you like to see the roof light open yeah i dearly would
07:03yeah i mean here we are we're inside the building so cli so clearly oh the entire thing slides
07:14the light changes and shifts doors open and close and spaces change
07:36this house feels like a living breathing thing
07:39do you know when i first saw this place i thought goodness me that looks so calm and still
07:48and unchanging and almost impregnable you know then i realized of course inside it's the exact opposite
07:54its potential to change is vast it's changing all the time things are moving spaces are opening up
08:01it just 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
08:19we've seen one house so far five more to go until we find out which will be shortlisted for the house
08:26of the year 2025 ah suburbia that curious british in between neatly balanced between the buzz of the
08:47city and the calm of the countryside a land built on brick bay windows garden walls decorative lintels
08:55each a quiet celebration of everyday craft our next house doesn't just nod to that tradition it reinvents
09:03it it is a love letter to local materials and a master class in modern craftsmanship
09:16lebber and nicole set up their own architectural practice three years ago
09:20the chance to do their first project together came about one christmas at nicole's parents home
09:31it was very cramped one christmas we were trying to get everyone in the space we had it was impossible
09:38so lemma said i can make it better
09:41so he did so we said right get some plans done and have a look
09:50the house in norfolk was a beautiful victorian home
09:54with a leaky extension built in the 1990s the extension came down
10:00and instead lemma and nicole built this beautiful brick box for 500 000 pounds
10:11the 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
10:40and the cast corbels were inspired by the dogtooth corbelling on the existing house
10:46so it's kind of a contemporary take on the existing details
10:51corbelling is where bricks jut out above one another dogtooth corbelling is where they stick out
10:57diagonally 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
11:07element to the house that point of difference was using bricks in the middle and then concrete at the
11:14top to form continuous dog tooth 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
11:29in the back of the garden we had some fencing set up and a concrete mixer i mean it looked like a blood
11:37bath because it was pigmented concrete for a good like six months you'd know where we'd been every day
11:43you'd come home you'd rinse off your hands like lady macbeth when the first section of concrete was
11:48poured and had set the pressure was on it kind of started a stopwatch really where we had to rush to
11:55get everything cast in time for the brick layers to come back and install it lemma and nicole had to
12:02race to cast the next piece of concrete before the bricklayer had finished the previous section of wall
12:08we had quite a gruelling casting schedule we had some days where we were casting and then the next day
12:15we'd be leaving them to set and then taking them out of the molds repairing the molds because we tried to
12:22we used as many of them as possible and then the cycle would start again because we ended up doing
12:27the casting over winter so it obviously got cold it was very wet and there were some days where it
12:34got kind of closer to freezing so we had to be really looking at whether or not the concrete was set
12:38properly keeping it warm nothing on this project came easily just as outside the concrete was painstakingly
12:46cast by lemma and nicole so the kitchen living space inside was also hard one all the timber joinery
12:56was stained and oiled by them too what's more each piece of it had to be labeled and driven by them from
13:04their workshop in london to norfolk we put 15 000 miles on the clock it was a big sacrifice and a big
13:11personal effort um overall 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
13:32an 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 straw you did all the labeling yourself yes of course color coded i was color coded
13:56into like red for hot european and american a color coded spice draw lets you know that people here
14:07care perhaps a little too much this is a house built by passionate obsessives a testament to what's
14:15possible when you embrace the hard way chase the details and go all in on making something extraordinary
14:26so many of us build our houses not just to please ourselves but also the neighbors to fit the
14:35postcode to conform to the planning rules but what if you didn't i mean what if you built something
14:41that quietly threw caution and convention and the street's color palette to the wind and instead used
14:47its materials to 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
15:08i'm in southwest london to see our next building that's not afraid to make an entrance
15:12on 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
15:29lower 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
15:51this 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 floor is
16:20home 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
16:36the 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 it is
16:49somewhat different and if i have 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
17:22use on a door it's heavy it's expensive it's something that you would normally use for a door
17:27handle or a letter box yes it sets the scene for the whole house i think this attention to detail
17:33you will find goes through the house as a whole and that's a tribute to the architects
17:38step inside and the loud shapes and extravagant materials on the outside soften to something more
17:48serene
17:49to have a courtyard garden here is quite something the way that this corner just flies
17:59around totally unsupported you're performing structural gymnastics yes and that's not all because
18:06this door and this glass all around the courtyard opens up so the kitchen effectively becomes part of
18:14the courtyard and it's an ideal place for breakfast lunch and dinner
18:22so 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 have it where you walk in and you see different aspects
18:32of the house as you walk through it if downstairs is about the calm practical day-to-day the tower
18:41is where the fun happens where guests get to enjoy the house in the first floor living room
18:48this house is all about the entertaining yes it is and part of entertaining of course is theater
18:54exactly so you have the kitchen downstairs you've got the movement through to the dining lounge and then
19:00drinks in the lounge upstairs or on a summer's evening drinks on the terrace where the sun's shining
19:06and you can have pre-dinner drinks out there or pre-dinner drinks out here
19:10and post-dinner drinks out there or post-dinner drinks out there seem to be a lot of drinks john
19:17well there are a lot of corks downstairs there there are
19:22entertaining here isn't an afterthought it's the whole point
19:26like any star venue it needs a grand entrance oh they are enormous so the architect ian crane
19:39gave it one it's not even just the height i mean look at the width of these
19:46i mean how tall is this well they're just under six meters high where do you even begin
19:51to get a piece of glass that size there are only a couple of companies in the uk that can manufacture
19:56glass of this size and scale and eventually we chose a company who are based in turkey
20:00so transporting 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
20:23no breakages 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
20:39most houses are containers for the chaos in our lives the stress and the pressure of work but this
20:53house well this is very different this steps in and it intervenes from the moment you walk up the
21:01grand staircase to that beautiful brass door this house takes over the continuous lines of the brickwork
21:09guide 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 we've seen three houses so far that take you on
21:34holiday and we have three more to see before we find 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
21:53are ripe for conversion to residential use of course the time-honored conversion is that of the humble
22:00agricultural barn but what if you did a barn conversion which was minimal which stripped out the interior
22:10took it back to its raw powerful earthy barniness i mean that could be amazing couldn't it
22:19any downside i can think of is that you'd end up living in a barn like a cow
22:24i'm in essex to visit our next long lister for a self-built project in a rural location
22:37barn conversions make a lot of sense first of all you have a large open space that you can cut up as
22:42you see fit then the planning process is easier because there's already a structure there and hopefully
22:49the 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 not here though not with this 18th
23:09century threshing barn this 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 is a study
23:34of 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 oh
23:56it had been used as a barn we think until the 60s and 70s and then my neighbors who sold the barn to
24:06me uh they've been here for 25 years and they thought that they would one day do the barn themselves
24:13but they didn't get round to it and then they decided to sell pass the baton to me exactly and so when i
24:21first saw it it was full of family stuff goodness it was their storeroom bicycles there was a rowing
24:28boat chests of jaws you name it it was in there when 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 there was a lot of respect for the
25:52historic structure here so the new elements sit entirely apart from it we introduced three black objects into the
26:01building there's the study platform there's the kitchen and the wood burning stove but none of them
26:14touches the wall so they're all freestanding so the barn almost acts as the gallery to host these three
26:22pieces of sculpture yes in a way i think that the timber frame is like a work of art absolutely and the
26:29star of the show and is respected and loved and left in its original form well most of it you'd never
26:38know at first glance but some of this ancient timber had to be replaced by the craft and expertise of one
26:44man dr joseph bispham i signed my indenture as a carpenter and joiner on the 23rd of june 1963.
26:51oh goodness so i've been doing carpentry for quite a long time
26:57we've lost so much of our history and this is in a way fairly unique with essex because they're not
27:03common these field barns and there was a time when it was a scrap it mentality so everything would be
27:09knocked down to repair the barn joseph carefully removes the rotten parts and then scarfs in new pieces
27:17a scarf is an old piece of timber to a new piece so if you look at that then that's a scarf and a
27:24good example is this piece of oak here so if that was a post and we were scarfing in then that will
27:32be the tenant to hold on the plate and that will be the running scarf that will go on to the the
27:38existing piece of timber so this is the replacement this is the repair right because you're looking at
27:43something that's rotted away at the bottom so it's about minimal intervention but it needs to
27:48stand the test of time it's not just new timber that's scarfed in either there you've used a
27:55salvaged piece yeah so it's this mix of old new salvage yes i mean where we could we use every piece
28:03of timber there's no bonfires here yes nothing you know so even small pieces of timber they'll most
28:09probably have a job before before you know before the job is finished the architects were patrick lynch
28:24and rachel elliott there's something about the presence of old buildings that like you can just
28:29see the notches and the cuts and the workmanship and so there's this friendly ghosts it's not alienating
28:35but it's also a bit uncanny the more you look at historic buildings and are able to read them
28:40you know that there were phases in this building we know that the mid-stray was cut in later we know
28:46this wall had to be rebuilt um in the 80s because there were cattle in here and they pushed the wall
28:52over i mean i'd find that really interesting and a great part of working on historic buildings
28:56this is conservation not by freezing time but by working with what was there repairing it honoring
29:07how it was made and allowing something new to emerge this project is a careful restoration that
29:15finds beauty in the craft of what was once a purely functional building by celebrating the work that went
29:22into making it and by adding a few sympathetic additions this building has been given a new
29:29elegant life and become a beautiful home for joanne
29:38there is one british instinct which is is deeply embedded it's almost genetic and that's the instinct
29:45to 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
29:58also like our buildings to be a little modest to be quieter polite something that knows its context
30:05and when to keep its voice down but what if what if that modesty was a mask what if playing it down
30:13was how you got away with something much bigger you know well it takes is a little camouflage to
30:20smuggle in a bit of architectural daring
30:25well our next long lister in wales has pulled 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 fits 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
32:03so 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
35:14at the edge of a village here where thatch and brick meet field and shed sits something unexpected
35:23okay here we are not a cottage not a barn but something else
35:31i'm not sure i've come to the right building i mean this is just a wall and a garage
35:43although the garage is beautifully detailed with a oh a double roof and a chain pipe and a oh
35:52douglas fur cladding and the wall oh the wall is l-shaped and it is monumental
36:01this 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
36:23the house is split into quadrants
36:35one 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 and 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 it's a
37:14broken cruciform so there were a series of sheds here that were run down and neglected for probably
37:21decades and james gorst was quick to pick up on that see anybody else would just say i'll just do
37:27you 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 but
38:07when you look at the work you could see that there was enjoyment in putting this house up you can see
38:11it expressed in the craftsmanship inside you walk along one of the great spine brick walls into the kitchen
38:22a quarter of the house so kitchen is then incorporated into the rest of the building this is one large volume
38:30and a giant celebration of one material douglas fir wood everything in the kitchen in douglas fir
38:38if you've got douglas fir cutlery how far does it extend we wanted to use the same material throughout
38:48to create uh 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
39:03them 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
39:10material even the brick feels softer here somehow outside it looks like it's slicing the house into four
39:20neat chunks but inside you realize the walls don't divide they invite you through and what's through here
39:30through the oh douglas fir door a burst of color oh so there is the wall sharply separates the pale
39:39colors of the wood and brick from an ocean of blue i'm beginning to see the walls is quite kind of
39:46powerful presences when the kids they're young adults now uh when they come home this is their private
39:52space yeah what's very nice is that it does feel very adult so it's not like returning to their old
39:58bedrooms and a family home with the posters on the wall and they feel like they're regressing every
40:03time they come home part 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 although the business of actually building his vision was nerve-wracking
40:40when the house first went up i had that terrible sinking feeling when you think you've just got something
40:46really wrong when you came here and saw these expletive deleted walls it just looked so massive
40:54and gaunt and i did think what the hell have i done here but it's okay now and that's the nature of
41:02architecture you know often you are being a bit brave with scale and initially it can be a bit
41:06concerning who dares wins it's always a worry meeting your heroes but amento does not disappoint
41:17you can use brick and timber to do a job hold up a roof clad a wall but as the architect louis
41:24khan 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
42:02mill 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 and just enough
42:28restraint 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 trend 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 r-i-b-a house of the year winner this project has been ambitious on so many levels
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