An experimental brick extension, a house with fir-lined reading nooks and an apartment covered in 30,000 wooden blocks are three of the projects vying to be named London's best home improvement of 2020.
There are 25 projects shortlisted to win this year's Don't Move, Improve! contest ? an annual awards programme held by New London Architecture (NLA) to showcase "the ingenuity of residential design" in the UK capital.
Other projects in the running include Vine Architecture Studio's overhaul of a dilapidated apartment, a Passivhaus-standard extension by OEB Architects and a two-storey timber extension by R2 Studio.
A glass veranda by DROO, a garden flat by Sanya Polescuk Architects and a basement extension by ZCD Architects also made this year's shortlist. Now in its tenth year, the annual competition is open to any home-improvement project in any one of London's 33 boroughs that was completed in the last two years.
As well as the overall winner, the shortlisted entries are competing for six prizes including the Compact Design of the Year and the Environmental Leadership Prize.
There are also two prizes focusing on creativity: the Most Unique Character Award and the Materiality and Craftsmanship prize.
This year's judging panel was chaired by NLA founder Peter Murray, and included director of the London Festival of Architecture Tamsie Thomson, Tonkin Liu's founder Anna Liu and director of Elliot Wood, Andy Downey.

The judges said that entries this year were partic...