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November 4, 2022
November 4, 2022 This modern cabin, with an all black board and batten exterior, is located in the mountains near Dahlonega, Georgia. Designed with privacy in mind, the cabin appears almost like a dark shadow in the trees, however, once across the entryway bridge and through a gate, there’s a large deck with expansive mountain […]
November 3, 2022
Neaco, or Norton Engineering Alloys Company as our full entity, was established in 1972 to design and manufacture a range of open grille flooring products utilising a patented swage-locked construction technique. Our design and engineering expertise soon facilitated expansion into related product areas. Based in North Yorkshire, all our products are manufactured in our 4,875-square-metre […]
November 2, 2022
Canadian practice MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has designed a house perched on a granite hilltop overlooking the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, at the edge of a forested hillside. Its skin of rusty corrugated steel is meant to change over time along with the landscape around it. Weathered steel over a metal frame Corrugated steel, already […]
November 1, 2022
Rob Edwards, Trading Director at SIG Design and Technology, discusses the company’s core service principles and how these can benefit specifiers, with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw. In association with While flat roofs have long been admired for their aesthetics, efficiency, and material economy, they remain technically challenging – not least in ensuring a long service […]
November 1, 2022
Architecture firm KUD has designed the Imperium Town Homes, a collection of 4 townhouses in Australia, with a curved brick facade. The exterior features natural earth-colored bricks accented by protruding black metal window frames. The black frames cast shadows onto the brick, adding even further interest to the building’s exterior. Here’s a look at the […]
October 31, 2022
It is not news to The Cool Hunter readers that we value tasteful restorations. We believe that new and flashy and complicated is easy. Restored and restrained is difficult. So it is easy for us to agree with British-born designer-to-the-stars Jake Arnold for whom his adopted hometown of Los Angeles can at times feel just […]
October 28, 2022
Studio Weave’s extension to Lea Bridge Library, in Waltham Forest, achieved with the help of the GLA, caters for a growing, diverse community. WordsJason SayerPhotographyJim Stephenson “You used to have to wear thick shoes here,” says Je Ahn, pointing at the ground. “It used to be full of needles and nasty objects – it wasn’t […]
October 28, 2022
Eddie Blake of Studio Weave looks at the Lea Bridge Library, recently extended by Studio Weave, and what it means to genuinely serve a community today. The communities of Leyton are experiencing dramatic change. Along with other areas around the Olympic Park fringe, this Victorian residential suburb and its light industrial edges, is enjoying quiet […]
October 28, 2022
This rural house, designed by Dion Keech Architects together with its owner, takes a U shape around a courtyard and is finished in black. The owner is a designer who runs Mr Pinchy and Co, an Australian brand of sculptural homewares, and was closely involved throughout the design process. A dark box in the landscape […]
October 26, 2022
Designers and investors are driving a step change in the provision of innovative high-quality projects in the third-age housing sector. Local authorities need to catch up, says Ballymore creative director Roger Black. The renewed interest in architectural housing solutions for senior people is great to see, and the wonderful John Morden Centre by Mae Architects is […]
October 26, 2022
Architects EAT have completed Kori Ice Cream, a fun and colorful ice cream shop with Japanese inspiration that’s located in Hawthorn, Australia. The designers referenced Japanese kawaii culture and the hyperpop music movement, as well as street art and curbside posters to create a graphically and visually strong space. They mention that “peering into the […]
October 25, 2022
Serendipity, good luck and a great deal of trust and courage were all needed to make this elegant restoration of a century-old traditional Mallorcan possessió or rural estate happen. The architectural refurbishment was directed by Bernat Oliver and Javi Márquez, and interior design by Feliu Rullán and Victoria Vidal, the owners of the Mallorcan interior design […]
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