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March 3, 2024
LUKSTUDIO has shared photos of Aimé Pâtisserie, which is located in Shanghai, China, and is flanked by familiar coffee and donut franchises. The designers explained, ‘that the challenge of the store is to stand out from its immediate chaos and appeal to the clientele from the close-by gentrified neighborhood. Our strategy is to dress this […]
March 1, 2024
March 1, 2024 MW Architects has shared photos of a new garden room in London, England, that replaced an old derelict wash house, that was in danger of slipping down a steep slope and existed at the back of an overgrown garden. Here’s what it looked like originally. The new studio, which has been designed […]
February 26, 2024
Wheeler Kearns Architects has shared photos of a new home they have completed in Illinois, which is located on a one-acre wooded ravine site north of Chicago. The home, situated upward and slightly angled away from the street, includes twin-gabled volumes, one for sleeping and one for living, which are connected by a glazed breezeway. […]
February 22, 2024
Eva Hinds Arquitectura has shared photos of a modern home they have completed in La Libertad, El Salvador, that has exposed structural elements. The lot, has the shape of a funnel, with the narrow part connecting to the street mid-way up an incline. The wide area is perched about five meters above the street level. […]
February 21, 2024
NEO Architecture Inc. has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Ontario, Canada, whose design was inspired by the verticality of neighboring Victorian homes. The extruded gable form is a tribute to the architectural motifs of the past while blending it with modern elements to create something for today’s living standards. The recessed […]
February 19, 2024
SHED Architecture & Design has shared photos of a two-story bunkhouse on Guemes Island in Washington State, that provides additional sleeping accommodations for a family’s cabin. The Original Structures The bunkhouse sits less than ten feet uphill from the property’s 100-year-old log cabin, approximately 150 feet up the sloping lot from the shore. The cabin, […]
February 15, 2024
i29 architects together with NAMO Architecture has shared photos of a new elevated cabin they designed in De Hode Veluwe National Park in The Netherlands. As part of a special project by the municipality of Arnhem, 11 cabins in the tress have been developed here as holiday stays. The central theme of the project is […]
February 15, 2024
Photography by Eiichi Kano Koichi Takada Architects has designed a retail building in Shanghai, China, that’s described as an ‘architectural forest’ of 32 trees. Photography ZY Architectural Photography Situated on a site that only four decades ago was densely forested, Solar Trees Marketplace is the first step in returning green to greater Shanghai and mitigating […]
February 8, 2024
February 8, 2024 Arno Schuurs and Paulien van Noort of design-build firm GetAway Projects BV, has shared photos of a new home they designed in Gorssel, The Netherlands. The designers found a long, narrow, and uninviting plot with a shack on it that had been decaying there for years. The shack was removed and they […]
February 7, 2024
Architecture firm Prentiss + Balance + Wickline has shared photos of a house they designed in Wawona, California, for a couple with grown children and their families. The house, surrounded by parcels of National Park, is both a quiet retreat to the wilderness and a place for holiday gatherings. Dark vertical wood siding was chosen […]
February 5, 2024
Architecture firm Blue Truck Studio, together with interior design firm Mary Valaika Design, has sent us photos of a home they renovated in California, that showcases vertical wood siding. The original 90s house had wild geometry, such as octagon-shaped rooms and triangular spaces, however, the client wanted a home of simple forms and rustic textures, […]
February 1, 2024
Architecture firm The Ranch Mine has completed a new home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, designed to blur the line between indoor and outdoor living. Its centrepiece outdoors is a circular sunken fire pit set into the desert garden. The architects are at theranchmine.com. Metal fins inspired by the ocotillo The first thing visitors notice is […]
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