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June 30, 2022
Watch the AT Schüco webinar exploring ways of evaluating, upgrading and repurposing our historic building stock. As pressure rightly increases to keep and re-use our existing building stock wherever possible, rather than demolish and replace, we need to think more deeply about what we mean by heritage. When should we keep buildings? What value do […]
June 30, 2022
The house Luke Lowings and his partner built sixteen years ago is a workspace for both of their practices and an urban family home that is joyful, equal and full. I’ve known Tim since early childhood. He lived at number 89, I lived at 88, across the dead-end of a long straight road. A total […]
June 29, 2022
An AT webinar, in partnership with Sika UK, exploring ways of maximising cradle-to-cradle design is taking place on Wednesday 20th July. What do effective cradle-to-cradle principles look like in reality? How can we fully understand the whole-life cost of buildings and materials? And how can the construction industry create a regenerative built environment that takes […]
June 29, 2022
Architecture and interior design firm Hacker has completed a new modern home with noticeably high ceilings near Bend, Oregon. An exterior of cedar, steel, and glass gives the house a bold presence in the shrubby landscape that surrounds it. A path leads between the different volumes of the house to guide visitors to the front […]
June 28, 2022
Skip to content Heatherwick Studio creates “kinetic glasshouse” Heatherwick Studio has designed a pyramidal glasshouse with unfolding “sepals” for Woolbeding Gardens in West Sussex. Commissioned for a spot in the 26-acre gardens of the National Trust’s Woolbeding Estate, the Kinetic Glasshouse by Thomas Heatherwick’s studio contains sub-tropical flora and is one of twelve zones with […]
June 28, 2022
Pierre d’Avoine Architects has converted a chapel in rural Umbria into a private house. Louis Mayes explores a project that weaves ecclesiastical structures and spaces into a contemporary home. Crucially, the project asks questions about the way previous functions translate from religious to secular whilst maintaining the rigour of a hierarchical divide between the various […]
June 28, 2022
June 28, 2022 Architecture firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) in close collaboration with Treehotel and Swedish ornithologist Ulf Öhman, has designed ‘Biosphere’, a hotel room in Harads, Sweden. The new hotel room is suspended in the Harads pines, with BIG’s experiential design being the eighth hotel room on the property. Key to the design of […]
June 24, 2022
Architecture firm Hybrid, has completed a townhouse in Seattle, Washington, for two very different owners: a family of four who moved from Copenhagen to Seattle to launch a video game company, and a single person looking for a unique space to call home. The striking corner design of the townhome is clad with corten steel […]
June 24, 2022
Can Brut is a family villa on the island of Ibiza located on an 85,000 square-metre cove plot overlooking Spain’s Balearic Sea. The plot overlooks a relatively secluded cove with a small beach and a lovely swimming and snorkeling area favoured by locals on the otherwise rather touristy island of Ibiza that is one of […]
June 23, 2022
The interior and exterior finishing of buildings typically demands a combination of practicality, durability and aesthetics. In the latest chapter of the ‘Rediscovering Pendock’ series, lining and enclosure specialist Pendock explores its multifaceted Linea range. In association with The Pendock Linea name was first used more than 20 years ago, when the company began the […]
June 22, 2022
Caleb Johnson Studio has sent us photos of their recently completed project, a new home in Portland, Maine, for a couple in the design industry. The house, surrounded by trees and grass, has a bold exterior clad with black stained wood siding and a standing seam metal roof. At the rear of the home, there’s […]
June 21, 2022
Skip to content 200 Becontree Archio has created two ‘super- sized’ villas containing dense infill housing on east London’s historic Becontree estate. Marwa El Mubark enjoys a contemporary project that builds on the social aspirations of the original designs. Image Caption Copy (optional) Pelit vel il ipsanto etusaec atiorerio. Itaerib usciistio coritio nsequi is ut […]
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