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May 25, 2022
Christian Brailey Architects has designed this renovation and addition for a house in England, that transformed a studio flat into a home for an architect and landscape designer duo, Christian Brailey and Faye Johnson. The extension, which is clad in Canadian Douglas Fir slats, forms a new L-shaped space that maximizes the light for the […]
May 24, 2022
Crossrail – now known as the Elizabeth line – has finally opened to passengers, stretching 118km to connect Reading and Heathrow in the west through central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. The first Elizabeth line train left Abbey Wood station at 6:30am on 24 May, marking the official opening of the […]
May 24, 2022
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has completed its much-anticipated new campus for the Royal College of Art in Battersea, south west London. Herzog & de Meuron’s project for the Royal College of Art comprises two new buildings – The Rausing Research and Innovation Building, and The Studio Building – together totalling 15,500 square metres. […]
May 24, 2022
May 24, 2022 ZAKAA Architecture has sent us photos of their latest project, a new house in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, that features a series of curved walls that form alcoves. The architects wanted to design a house for their clients by not copying what has already been built thousands of times in the city. Located in […]
May 23, 2022
As KAAN Architecten rounds off its two-decade transformation of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Louis Mayes gives his verdict on the complex insertion of contemporary exhibition and back-of-house spaces with the neo-classical building. KAAN Architecten has completed a near 20-year project for The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA). The proposal, initiated […]
May 23, 2022
A new publication from the Twentieth Century Society by historian Geraint Franklin charts John Outram’s extraordinary career. Charles Holland enjoys the first major study of a highly idiosyncratic architect who remains impossible to categorise. Isle of Dogs Pumping Station by John Outram John Outram gave one of the strangest lectures I have ever attended. It […]
May 21, 2022
May 21, 2022 Golucci Interior Architects has completed a small café in Shanghai, China, that’s been designed to interact with the street. Working with a limited space of 322 square feet (30m2), the designers created a wood box as a facade that can be opened and closed. The cafe is often open to the street, […]
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 […]
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