Alexander Owen Architecture has added a marble-clad extension and garden room to this Victorian mid-terrace in East Dulwich, London, to accommodate a home office and a well-stocked bar.
The owners, a couple with three young sons, wanted a place to entertain and ample space to spend time together as a family.
Top image: the garden room houses a bar and home office. Above: the kitchen extension looks out at the garden and annexe
In response to the brief, the architects created a single-storey rear extension that adds 13.3 square metres and accommodates an open-plan kitchen, utility room and toilet, plus a 16-square-metre annexe that serves as a work and social space.
Separated by a paved garden, the facade of the extension and garden room are clad in two types of precision-cut marble ? a lighter version with hazier veining called Arabescato and a dark grey Bardiglio marble with a more structured finish. Alexander Owen Architecture clad the kitchen extension in different kinds of marble
"We wanted to create a holistic flow to the house and garden and a certain mimicry between the extension and garden room as new interventions," Richard Bridges and James Webster, founders of Alexander Owen Architecture, told Dezeen.
"The marble cladding on the extension and garden room has been designed to have similar cut lines and panel formations but the arrangement of the two marble types is reversed."
The marble is cut so that it wraps seamlessly around the glazing fram...