Lantern House.

Low-level winter sun warms the insulated double brick masonry walls while deep reveals provide sensible shade to the northern façade in the summer. Clever use of joinery shelving and herringbone pattern timber flooring cleverly camouflaged the misaligned boundary walls, making use of every available millimetre. Externally, the painted brick walls are pointed but this is only limited to the lateral mortar joints, an intentionally horizontal detail visually balancing the vertical stepped brick lantern. [Extracted from the article]