Located in a dense urban area in the city, the five-storey home is designed to provide more space for a multi-generational family on a plot adjacent to their previous home, which was demolished to make way for a garden. Responding to Maharashtra state's warm climate and the family's memories of traditional Indian architecture, Mumbai-based SJK Architects stacked the hom...
A floating park - How should this pedestrian bridge in Chengdu Jiaozi Park Financial and Business District cross the Jinjiang River? Should it be positioned as a bridge or a park? In the process of design, such questions were continuously put forward. Based on the city's urban structure, the Jinjiang River runs from north to south, dividing the financial and business dis...
The house presents a series of stacked, dark brick volumes that create a strong geometric presence, evoking strength and privacy. The home also features overlapping forms, giving it a modern, sculptural feel. At the rear of the home, doors and stairs connect the interior spaces with the outdoors, where there’s a swimming pool, outdoor lounge, and BBQ area. A large and...
Baumschlager Eberle Architekten has completed the new Huy Hoang Lock Factory, located in the Quang Minh Industrial Zone in northern Vietnam. The facility, recognized by its rhythmic facade of concrete fins, covers three hectares and sits twenty kilometers from the capital, Hanoi. The factory complex includes three buildings: two used for manufacturing with German technol...
The site exhibited two major complexities. First, the property lot was shaped as an irregular polygon, with a curved front lot line running along the curved street. In such a haphazard shape of a lot, the zoning by-laws such as front yard setback and building length were determined by the curved front lot line, which imposed a curved building footprint. Second, the steep...
To make this happen, the architects designed an “optical glass façade”, behind which they created a lush verdant courtyard, complete with trees, shrubbery, and a reflecting pool. Made from 6,000 pure-glass blocks, the optical wall is as much a captivating design statement as it is an engineering feat, filtering natural light in, keeping sounds out, and transforming the p...
Rusafova Markulis Architects have unveiled Cabin House, a semi-rural retreat outside of their hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, designed for a couple who wanted to increase their connection to the environment and surrounding landscape. The project is a modest single-storey structure on a generous sloping lot of just under one acre, divided between public and private...
The Nancy Pauw Bridge, designed by StructureCraft, fulfills a century-old vision for Banff, Canada, by connecting Central Park to the Banff Recreation Grounds. Spanning 80 meters, this innovative timber arch bridge provides striking views of the Rocky Mountains and a graceful crossing over the Bow River. During its first summer, it welcomed over 300,000 users, showcasing...
Located on Long Island’s East End, the home’s design is expressed through a steel frame that establishes the rhythm of the house on the interior and exterior. Large, glazed openings on the bay side maximize northern daylight connecting the interior with the landscape providing expansive water views over the bluff’s edge. Solid stained cedar-clad walls fill portions of ...
Built with prefabricated cross-laminated timber ceilings and glulam supports and screwed together on-site, it stands apart from traditional concrete-and-steel garages. (Concrete was used for its ramp core and stairwells.) The north facade is clad in soundproof glass, shielding a nearby residential development from the noise within, while the south side is open and its gr...
The fabled lake in Los Ríos has continuously lured a Santiago-based family to return to the remote region, generation after generation, faithfully traveling on weekends and holidays from their home in Chile’s capital city, a 10-hour drive or 90-minute flight to the north. Two brothers who spent time camping at the lake as children now each have their own house a two-minu...
The Nha Trang Pool Villa is the living space for a young family, balancing modern living with the desire for relaxation and closeness to nature, with the couple seeking a spacious and bright home that could nurture their passion for gardening and caring for their children. The design originated from the owner’s need for a bright airy space. Curved architectural volumes ...
The site of the home is located near the historic 1960 Olympic Nordic track and situated on the edge of a wetlands and seasonal stream. The home is organized as a series of linked spaces, each of which provide a unique sensory experience and connection to different parts of the site, both vertically and horizontally. The design includes extensive use of glass to create...
The 800-square-foot (74-sqm) cabin has a wood exterior with black accents. Its wood deck, with steps down to the gravel, expands its living space. The heavy Douglas fir timbers exposed on the interior and exterior are inspired by the logging site’s history. The local mill used the river to send logs down to the lake to be dried, cut, and shipped throughout the region. ...
The renovated home includes a pivoting glass front door that welcomes visitors to the home. Wood, white, and black served as the clean palette for the new kitchen’s design. The kitchen’s design is centered on the window backsplash, adding natural light to the interior and providing a view of the landscaping outside. A wood wall runs from the entryway to the living roo...
About 200 km past the junction of the southern and northern Sichuan-Tibet routes from Chengdu to Lhasa lies the most spectacular part of the journey. Famous attractions such as the Bangda Grassland, Nujiang Grand Canyon, Ranwu Lake, and Laigu Glacier are scattered throughout the small town of Baxoi in eastern Tibet. The Nujiang River 72 Turns Canyon Scenic Area is locat...
Commissioned by the fourth generation of the Martínez Zabala Family, Foster + Partners has designed a major extension and refurbished the existing facilities at the winery. In line with the practice's unique vision and as one of Bodegas Faustino's organizational pillars, sustainability is integral to the project with a new visitor center that has been designed as a 'Plan...
Jewel Box is a small-scale but high-impact project by Californian architecture practice Red Dot Studio. The scheme, located in the State's Redwood City, came with a brief that outlined the extension of a classic 20th-century gem – a rare, late example of Prairie School architecture (a style made popular by Frank Lloyd Wright). Step inside Jewel Box by Red Dot Studio The...
The house belongs to architects Rebecca Rudolph, a principal at local studio Design, Bitches, and Colin Thompson, who works at Gensler. The married couple both graduated from SCI-Arc in 2000. The same year, the couple bought a bungalow in LA's Atwater Village neighbourhood for around $150,000 (£11,711). The 500-square-foot (46-square-metre) house was rundown and sat on ...
The home has been designed as a series of concrete cylinders with open arches, exposing the interior to the outdoors and creating areas for outdoor moments. Due to the different round shapes, the home has a rooftop terrace and a swimming pool that curves around the home and underneath the terrace. The swimming pool has steps that follow the pool’s curve, both inside an...
The house is conceived as a living element in the landscape, with gentle curves and fluid lines that adapt to the terrain and merge with the surrounding vegetation. The three-level garden extends from the ground to the rooftop, culminating in an overlook facing the polo field. It integrates vegetation organically and breaks conventional boundaries between interior and e...
