NOVA architecture+design

22/05/2026

https://www.novaarchitecture.co.uk

NOVA architecture+design is a small design-led architectural studio specialising in residential and cultural projects. Build your dream with us.

26/07/2025

One of our projects completed a few years ago.

16/07/2025

The best place to be on a warm summer day.

A south-facing extension with a deep overhang to prevent overheating in the summer months.
Seamless transition between exterior and interior with a corner sliding door.

06/06/2025

Why choose between sliding and French doors when you could have both.

In this project we challenged the preconception that one large opening provides the best light and connection to the garden.
This design includes sliding doors, French doors with overhead glazing and a low-cill window. They all have different roles to play.

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06/06/2025

Views to the kitchen and the front door at our recently completed project.
A line of sight and circulation from the front door to the garden was the main concept that shaped this design.
Clerestory windows to the new utility room on the left bring borrowed light into the deep plan.
The classic shaker style kitchen by boasts some beautiful details like antique mirror back picking reflections of the garden planting and reeded glass cabinet doors.

26/05/2025

A space that invites you in.

This rear extension and ground floor remodelling of a classic Victorian house is a masterclass in zoning of an open plan space.

A space to live in.

24/05/2025

Recently completed face-brick extension, which elevates a Victorian property.
This house had generously-proportioned rooms, but suffered from an awkward relationship with the garden, set two metres above ground floor level, and dark ill-conceived rear extension with a conservatory. We find inspiration in the challenges of the site.

It was amazing to work again with a wonderful client on their second home. They have put it together beautifully. Interior views to follow.

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09/05/2025

Your home has to be practical, beautiful and exciting.
An extension is not simply extra space, it is an opportunity to enhance your home and transform the way you live in it.
We remodel and design your spaces to suit your lifestyle and adapt to your changing daily routines as your family grows.

Scroll to see the plans of this single-storey side extension and what it was before. The initial brief of this family was very simple: ‘we need to open up the kitchen’. We did a bit more.

17/12/2024

Something a bit different as we spend more time indoors during the festive season.
We love working on interior designs and furniture details.
This wine cellar has walnut and smoked mirror panelling and oak herringbone floor, complemented by Tom Dixon’s Melt light fittings for a warm mid-century bar look.

13/06/2024

We love the challenge of working with historic buildings.
The owners fell in love with this quaint arts and crafts house when they first viewed it, but it had a cramped ground floor plan and a huge traditional conservatory, which was too hot in summer or too cold in winter, and obscured the views from the first floor bedrooms.
The extension design draws a line between new and old by using contemporary massing and detailing. However, the materials and colours were selected to complement the existing in order to achieve coherence of the whole.

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