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February 1, 2022
Encasement explores the features and benefits of its high-quality column casings range and versatile building lining solutions. In association with Yellow GRP column casings from Encasement’s Polyma range conceal external structural steelwork at Cardiff Bay’s Premier Inn The interiors of many buildings, as well as some exteriors, would be considerably less attractive and practical if […]
February 1, 2022
February 1, 2022 Designer Michele Marcon has created ‘Ottomano’, a minimalist wall light fixture that can also double a stair handrail. Designed for Italian company OLEV, the light is made from aluminum, and has an 8-sided ergonomic shape with a double light source from hidden LED’s, casting the light both above the handrail and below. […]
February 1, 2022
February 1, 2022 Architect Filippo Bombace has collaborated with Giorgio Bombace, to design the interior renovation of an apartment in Rome, Italy, that showcases a variety of wood partition walls. The apartment interior includes straight lines, semicircles, and quarter-circles, to create different zones, like the living room and study. The room partitions, which are made […]
January 31, 2022
An AT Schüco webinar exploring modern methods of construction and how we decide which ones are best suited to our building projects is taking place on Wednesday 23rd February. TDO’s Fab House in North Shields is a new modular constructed dwelling typology (ph: Peter Cook) Modular construction, off-site and on-site manufacturing, as well as design […]
January 31, 2022
Feilden Fowles associate Ingrid Petit on the generosity and warmth of she found in Glasgow, in contrast to the city’s cold description as Edinburgh’s ugly sibling. Glasgow tenement housing, some of which narrowly escaped demolition and proved flexible enough to be upgraded and improved. As I start thinking about this article, it feels luxurious to […]
January 31, 2022
With smart design, basic local craft skills and a flexible experimental attitude, even the most ordinary warehouse-like space can become an appealing selling environment. This was recently proven in the Yuntai Ice Chrysanthemum Industry Park in Houyanmen Village in Huanfeng Town, where Beijing-based LUO Studio www.luostudio.cn transformed a hurriedly built steel-frame warehouse into a locally […]
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 […]
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