AR February 2025: Extensions
Virtually all architects have worked on a home extension at some point in their career. Increasing the size of a property is perceived as a sign of success and a materialisation of social aspiration. In the climate emergency, extensions also help to increase a building’s useful life, demonstrated to varying effect by the projects in this issue. In large parts of the world, homes are built and gradually extended by residents themselves. Whether planned by an architect or note, these extensions persist, and crop up as residents’ lives change. As Nancy Kwak observes in the keynote essay, ‘this kind of self-help activity is the most important way in which cities have grown in the last 80 years’. Read the full editorial
