Roof Top 'Conservatory' - Simon Conder

We featured Simon Conder's marvellous Vista earlier in the week and here is his Roof Top Conservatory (though I would argue for its shedlike qualities) in London. The client's budget was £15,000 and the goal was to link their top floor apartment to the roof terrace while also providing lots of light down below. Though it looks like glass, it's actually a cleverly flexible polycarbonate sheeting around a softwood frame.

Beach Hut Tuesday - Dungeness

Two very different kinds of beach huts for you today, all on the beach at Dungeness in Kent. First of all two from Squirmelia in the Dungeness flickr pool.And then the marvellous rubber-clad Vista from Simon Conder Associates, winner of the The Stephen Lawrence Prize. (Re)built using timber and spruce plywood as a weekend retreat for two people, the 92 square metre house was originally a 1930s fisherman's hut which was then extended. The rubber is an echo of the more traditional felt and tar of similar buildings. And there's a 1954 Airstream caravan for visitors to stay in.