Architecture & Design Community
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
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 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 20, 2022
June 20, 2022 Badrinath Kaleru and Prerna Kaleru of Studio Ardete, have sent us photos of ‘Never Never Cube’, a modern commercial building located in India. The building, which started out as a simple box, has been elevated with the inclusion of unique balcony shapes. The balconies, which protrude away from the building, each have […]
June 20, 2022
When Rustic Canyon house was completed in May 2018, one of the residence’s redeeming qualities already then was the surrounding nature. As the 4,100 square-foot (381 square-metre) private home is located in California, the trees and vegetation have done what they do in warm climates: they have grown tremendously and now obscure the modernist white […]
June 17, 2022
Kariuok Architects have designed a modern cabin in Quebec, Canada, that’s elevated to be located within the treetops. Local zoning rules required a 100-foot (30-metre) setback from the lake, while a cliff face at the 100-foot mark was incorporated into the design, removing the need to blast the rock. To minimize harm to the hillside […]
June 12, 2022
R Architecture has designed a new home in Melbourne, Australia, that includes an exterior clad in slate shingles. The black Spanish Slate shingles that cover this home, are softened by natural Iron Ash timber elements, as well as perforated aluminum screens and windows in a charcoal powder coat. The shingles are not only on the […]
June 10, 2022
Collingridge And Smith Architects has completed Kakapo Creek, an early learning centre for up to 100 children in Auckland, New Zealand. Founded on the idea of Nga Hau E Wha, the four winds, being symbolic as a meeting place for people from all backgrounds. This idea is embodied in the design of the building, forming […]
June 4, 2022
AM-arqstudio has completed a new house in Braga, Portugal, for a couple that wanted to create a social atmosphere, with interior areas interacting with the outdoors. An interesting design feature of the outdoor space is the concrete patio that wraps around the side of the house and includes hidden LED lighting under the overhang, which […]
May 27, 2022
The new building of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, Hungary, opened this week. A remarkable design feature is its curved shape that’s topped with a large green roof. Designed by Marcel FERENCZ of Napur Architect, the building has gently curving lines that enable the building to function as a gateway and a passage linking […]
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