Architecture & Design Community
January 28, 2022
Architects Ivan Ovchinnikov, Olga Sandakova, and Kirill Kazakov of DublDom, together with interior designer Anna Kandybovich, have recently completed a modular prefabricated home named “TOPOL 27”. Designed as a cabin for a hotel in Russia, the project uses wear-resistant materials suitable for active use in daily rental conditions. The exterior is made of black metal […]
January 27, 2022
Hisel Flynn Architects together with landscape architecture firm g2CLA (G2 Collaborative), have designed a garage that is also a social space for gathering, lounging, dining, and parties. Added to a home in Brookline, Massachusetts, the concrete garage is connected to the main house via a wood bridge. Inside the garage, on the lower level, there’s […]
January 26, 2022
Although designed without a specific client in mind, Radius House in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles is both livable and sculptural. Designer Ben Crawford of Los Angeles-based Pentagon and his partners Paul Stoelting, Tyler McMartin, Dale Strong and Paul Trussler, have conceived a 3,700 square-foot (344 sq. metre), four-bedroom, four-bathroom residence that allows for […]
January 25, 2022
Elastico Farm has designed a lab building of interlocking pink concrete planes for the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Turin, Italy. Building on the aesthetics and techniques developed by Elastico Farm in its experimental House of Cards scheme, which explores the structural possibilities of granite, the lab is made up from panels of interlocking […]
January 25, 2022
Guz Architects have shared with us their latest project, ‘Leedon Park’, that’s located in Singapore and includes a lush and expansive landscaped courtyard. The expansive property includes a landscaped water courtyard featuring small islands filled with plants. Bridges that connect walkways with the islands, also allow movement between various seating areas. The water feature and […]
January 25, 2022
January 25, 2022 Moliving has recently revealed their first model unit for a nomadic hotel concept that includes luxury prefabricated hotel cabins, measuring in at 45 feet long with 400 square feet of personal space. Located in New York’s Hudson Valley and set to open Spring 2022, the individual wood-clad units are built offsite by […]
January 21, 2022
Truly sustainable buildings are achieved by informed decision making, constant re-evaluation, and a willingness to change direction as projects progress. Engineer Alex Lynes explains the thought processes behind four recent buildings and offers a checklist for optimising environmental performance from concept design to completion on site. 15 Clerkenwell Close by Groupwork. Photograph by Timothy Soar […]
January 18, 2022
Metropole Architects has recently completed the Oban Estate, a contemporary home and equestrian facility that’s located half an hour inland from the port city of Durban, South Africa. Upon arriving at the estate, people drive through a raw concrete and corten gatehouse and along a curved, tree-lined avenue before passing under a low slung cantilevered […]
January 17, 2022
Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran, founding partners of the Los Angeles–based architecture firm Woods + Dangaran are infinitely familiar with the language of high-end Californian architecture. The projects we have covered of their portfolio include a masterful renovation of a mid-century modernist masterpiece by Craig Ellwood and a new-build for a client that can demand […]
January 13, 2022
January 13, 2022 Established in Beijing by Japanese architects Yoko Fujii and Shuhei Aoyama, B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio has recently completed % Arabica, a coffee shop in Chengdu, China. Located within a historical area, the coffee shop runs alongside Kuanzhai Alley, a renowned busy commercial and cultural area, and was designed to respect the traditional western-Sichuan […]
January 13, 2022
January 13, 2022 London based architecture and design practice Studio RHE has completed a collection of four houses that are situated on the island of Félicité in the Seychelles. Rising from their surroundings as linear geometric forms, the homes rest on weathered granitic outcrops that are eye-catching elements of the local landscape. The houses are […]
January 12, 2022
The team at London-based Alessandro Isola studio named their recent residential project Fluid House. The fluid in the name does not refer to wavy or watery shapes or lines in the design, it refers to the fluidity of use of the entire space. This fluidity of views and flexibility of use are close to the heart […]
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