Inside The UK’s ‘Super Eco’ Home in the Heart of London | RIBA House of the Year 2023 Winner

I want to live here -- what a cool house!

Wonderful house and garden.

A beautifully understated home with a clever use of materials and ideas.

"How did you integrate sustainable design principles?" should be a feature of every single House & Garden video regardless of the aesthetic. Kudos to these home owners and the architects on a job well done.

Very clever! I particularly like the bunk beds. Innovative way to create privacy while minimizing square footage! The polycarbonate sliders in front of the bamboo wall are lovely too. I do wonder how they will fare over time, in terms of color and opacity. Hopefully better with them vertical rather than lying flat over a patio. Lovely place, and those children are to be envied, growing up in such a magical, green space in the heart of the city. Hopefully it will inspire them for the future!

hahahaha.....oh boy....climate clowns!!!

This is simply magnificent.

Felt perfectly well and at ease from the first second on - love every detail of it.

Aesthetically pleasing and environmentally friendly! Very beautiful!

Yeah, I’m sure this will save the so-called heating of the planet. Regards from climate changing Norway -13 Celsius 😅

I feel your channel is better than Architectural Digest nowadays. This house is brilliant! One question though, can those tropical plants survive during the winter?

So it snows in London right? How are the plants in winter?

...and yet they demolished the previous house...We'll never gonna make it as long as ego is on the way.

The plants and bamboo look beautiful but i would have liked local plants because they have a function for wildlife.

They say tight budget i would love to know exactly how much they spent.

How nice for them. 🙄

I think this one is the winner. I’d choose it.

How much does it cost? 😂😅

Definitely living in the "jungle"! Lots of interior watering to do. Makes me wonder how many birds get in, critters and bugs!

Gorgeous! Wondering what’s considered their “tight budget” to make such beautiful place a reality.

Im from Connecticut USA, North London is beautiful looking forward to watching your design 👑🌹

I cannot work out why I don't like very much of this at all - seems so dark and oppressive and cold to the touch

This should be a model for the vast majority of single family homes. They didn't start with "I want my house to look like...", it's functional requirements first, then aesthetics. Congratulations to the architects and owners! I hope many are inspired to copy this approach.

Eco friendly: They demolished the existing house, most of that ended up in a skip, and then rebuilt. The amount of carbon just in materials and transport is massive.
What nonsense.

Don’t get me wrong I like it as a house, but it’s basically a pretty rich young people’s pseudo-eco-vanity project

It looks hard and makes me feel clostrophobic.

I love the house (that sunken lounge room!!!) and the landscaping is gorgeous too - it looks very Australian-influenced, and interesting that this type of garden could flourish throughout a London winter.

Beautiful Timber work, can you let me know, which company in Austria made it?

Incredible house

As an architect you have surf the perfect wave.

Tottenham apparently.

it’s giving “The Curse”

I'm very proud of all these elements that were integrated in this home. More than often, they are only evocated and used as a touch of nature instead of being intricated with everyday living. With the current states of the cities worldwide, it's very inspiring to see how they can make a real living space that is harmonious and efficient. We can also think about domotic trends of the future with automated gardening devices, or to improve the functionnality of our kitchens with monitored food storage and cooking aids. This is the real proof technology can help us to live closer to nature.

I hope those plants will shelter a vast diversity of liminary animals and help to bridge the environmental continuity the animals need to be healthy and to thrive in their lives.

What an awful design!

Does anyone know what the budget was? 😊

Smart & Superb! Kudos!

Just about or everything uses energy ❤

It's genius! And the fact that it is in a row of traditional terraces is even more impressive. I adore it!

Much better showing room by room so we can get a better feel of what was done in the home. More information on materials used. The garden is lovely and lush :) I liked the integrated kitchen too. I adore the kids rooms very clever use of space and removable for when they are older. I hope more are inspired by this home and we see more of this type of design even at a smaller scale to solve homeless issues not pods or tiny homes but more liveable homes for people to restart their lives better.

Most of the planting consists of non native species.

Maybe it’s the best compliment but I don’t feel as if I’m neither outside nor inside.The greenery/the plants/the outside spaces just breathe this “ calmness “ and I’m sure that the birds/insects/ the other species appreciate the safe space that is now their home as well. Excellent abode…

Beautiful, just dark for me

How hot does this get in summer?

No thank you . Carbon neutral ? Really ? 🤔

Wow, just wow. This house is truly spectacular, although I would say, it a house for a couple without kids. Kids in this house would just cramp your style.