Architects Blee Halligan, with offices in London and Turks and Caicos Islands, have created ‘Derwent Valley Villa’, a family home in the village of Duffield in Derbyshire, England. Inspired by historic 18th-century red brick cotton mills in Derbyshire, the house is built of red brick with concrete banding, and designed as linked garden spaces in a wet woodland garden to provide the experience of ‘living in a garden’. Photo ©Henry Woide. Blee Halligan
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