Forest Pond House, sunken library, KREOD

Pond House by TDO from BenBlossom on Vimeo.
The Architects' Journal annual Small Projects Award always provides a feast of marvellous designs, many of them shedworking-based. Here are a few of our favourite things from the 2013 shortlist (click here to see all of them). Above is the Forest Pond House, by TDO Architecture, entrancingly described as "a space for meditation and a children’s den in the woods" in rural Hampshire. It's a timber build in plywood, glass and copper and frankly, I want it.

Next is a sunken library outbuilding in the garden of a home in the South Downs National Park by MW Architects. Here's what they say about it:

"The building is cut into the natural slope and extends to form a retaining wall for a new lawn and orchard at the same level as the main house. At the lower level the library has an aspect back into woodland. Viewed from the house the building peeks up above the lawn making it practically invisible and maintains the woodland view behind. The library is a quiet escape from the busy household. Like a cave; it is buried in its landscape but visually connected to the surrounding environment."

Again, it's on my list for Father Christmas.

And finally, KREOD from Pavilion Architects (photos by Jaap Oepkes), technically an exhibition space but still a wonderful shedlike construction which could be used for shedworking, built as 20m2 hexagonal waterproof and interconnecting pods to resemble three seeds. They're build of kebony, fact fans. You can see them at Peninsula Square, between Emirates Air Line and The O2 at Greenwich Peninsula until April 2013. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Annie St photography studio

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Platform 5's shoffice

A lovely garden office by architects Platform 5 at the back of a 1950s terraced house in London's St John’s Wood with the brief "requiring the shoffice to be conceived of as a sculptural object that flowed into the garden space". Here's what they say about it:

The glazed office space nestles into an extruded timber elliptical shell, reminiscent of a wood shaving, and forms a small terrace in the lawn. The interior is oak lined and fitted out with a cantilevered desk and storage. Two rooflights - one glazed above the desk with another open to the sky outside the office bring light into the work space.

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Vote for the readers' shedworking awards 2012

On Friday we'll be announcing the results of the annual Shedworking awards (see here for a full rundown on last year's winners who included Nigel Nunnett for his work at Chelsea Flower Show, Christian' Payne's DocuDen, Joanne Harris, Unbound, and John 'Shedman' Davies). We want your votes for the Readers' Award section, won last year by the Irish Men's Sheds Association which has gone on to great things in the past 12 months.

There's no shortlist drawn up by the Shedworking judges for this award, it's simply down to what you the readers of this site believe to be the most impressive step forward in the world of shedworking during 2012 - it could be anything, a book, a play, a tweet, a design, a quote, and so on. Simply add your vote (and reasons if you would like to) in the comments section or email me directly, tweet it to @shedworking, add it to the Shedworking page on Facebook or indeed on that Google+. Or just tell me if you see me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Shed Sunday

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Shed-based golfing simulator given greens light

"A garden shed housing a golf simulator will remain in place despite being described as ‘an unacceptable monstrosity’ by councillors. Dean White, of Wood Lane, Newhall, has been given retrospective permission by South Derbyshire District Council’s planning committee to keep the shedlike structure in his back garden. It currently houses a golf simulator which neighbours said they were ‘dismayed’ about, describing it as too high and too close to their homes, and that the simulator would result in excess noise... Fellow committee member Mick Bale added that if the structure was clad in timber ‘it wouldn’t be as half as offensive and it would blend nicely into the scene... Councillors voted by a majority of eight to four in favour of letting the shed stay providing it was clad in timber. The Burton Mail

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Christmas shed decorations

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