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Anna White

Don’t Move, Improve! Awards: London’s 15 best renovations and extensions up for top architecture award

Red Squirrel Architects’ transformation of a Victorian house in Forest Hill

(Picture: Adelina Iliev)

A combination of playfulness and practicality rather than pretension was demonstrated in the renovation projects shortlisted for London’s top architecture award this year.

Backyard pergolas, polished plaster, curved joinery and pastel colours were all in evidence in the extensions and refits now in contention for the New London Architecture (NLA) Don’t Move, Improve! awards 2022, where project budgets ranged from £121,000 to £1,000,000.

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