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May 18, 2022
Photography by Bicubik Photography Leppanen Anker Arquitectura has completed a new house in Los Chillos, Ecuador, that takes inspiration from the surrounding environment. The architects decided to bring back the use of wood, stone, and clay but with a contemporary mindset, resulting in a home that would feel light and airy. This strategy resulted conceptually […]
May 18, 2022
Magic can result when architect and client have known each other for two decades and when both are willing to take the time to consider the best way to renovate a sprawling Upstate New York estate. Architect Niels Schoenfelder of Mancini Enterprises and client Beverly Kerzner spent countless days and dinners over four years debating […]
May 17, 2022
Heatherwick Studio and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have completed Google’s Bay View campus, a trio of tent-like structures covered in a “dragonscale” arrangement of solar panels in California’s Silicon Valley. The Bay View campus was designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio for a 42-acre site next door to the NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain […]
May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022 Circle Studio Architects has sent us photos of one of their completed projects, a new house addition for a home in Melbourne, Australia. Glazed tiles act as a creative design feature on this house, a choice that is not often seen as an exterior material on houses. Contrasting the shiny glazed green […]
May 17, 2022
A vast book collection and a trusting friendship between designers and their client helped turn cramped ground-floor rooms into a sun-filled, tranquil private reading room. Six years ago, Tao Liu and Chunyan Cai, co-founders of the Shanghai-based architecture and interior design firm Atelier tao+c, designed an apartment for a client with whom they have since […]
May 15, 2022
Architects Annie Barrett of aalso architects and Hye-Young Chung of HYCArch have completely transformed an existing Spanish-style house in Los Angeles for a couple anticipating semi-retirement. Working together with Landscape Architect David Hocker of Hocker Design, the front garden has been created with a dense screen of San Pedro cacti, replacing the need for a […]
May 13, 2022
OMA and KRIS YAO | ARTECH have completed the Taipei Performing Arts Center, a “super theatre” comprising a huge glazed cube intersected by spherical and cuboid theatres. The Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) hosts three theatres – the spherical 800-seat Globe Playhouse, 1,500-seat Grand Theater and 800-seat Blue Box – that intersect a central cube. […]
May 12, 2022
John McAslan + Partners’ sensitive restoration of the much-loved Burrell Collection has improved environmental performance and ensured that the gallery will be enjoyed by future generations, writes Jennifer O’Donnell. Walking into Pollok Country Park, it is easy to forget how near you are to Glasgow City Centre. I prefer to enter the park on foot, […]
May 11, 2022
Kate Goodwin, professor at the University of Sydney and former Head of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, on Darwin, a city that provokes a vegemite reaction. St Mary’s Star of the Sea Cathedral designed by Ian Ferrier of Donoghue Cusick and Edwards in 1957 and completed in 1962 It’s nearly 2am […]
May 11, 2022
Yusti Herrera of Ian Chalk Architects explains how revisiting historic methods of reading the landscape informed the practice’s approach to building a new house in collaboration with RA Studio in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Cornish coast. Drawing inspiration from traditional mining workshop typologies, the larch-clad extension designed in collaboration with RA […]
May 10, 2022
Karlikova Architects has sent us a new project, a modern house in Kyiv, Ukraine, that has the post and beam structure exposed throughout the home. Inspired by the form of a Bavarian chalet, the house was designed to host events, such as parties for large groups of people and biker club meet-ups (50+ people). The […]
May 9, 2022
James Alder Architects has added a russet extension to a home in north-west London, which has a steeply pitched roof following the outline of a now demolished lean-to. Architect James Alder was asked to design the extension for a couple who, having lived in the flat for some time, wanted a bigger kitchen and dining […]
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