project milestone is a world’s first, as the houses will all be occupied, and counts the municipality of eindhoven, TU/e, contractor van wijnen, real estate manager vesteda, materials company saint gobain-weber beamix and engineering firm witteveen+bos as project partners. the first house will be a single-floor dwelling and it is expected to be ready for occupation mid 2...
the worlds of architecture and art have always overlapped, but rarely as transparently as in this 5-bedroom residence on lake geneva in thonon-les-bains, france. ‘casa 26’ is as much a work of art as it is a home. interiors designed meticulously by artist and owner marc dentand seamlessly blend with the scheme by architects michael widrig and daniel kaufma. the home step...
the design of each apartment consists of a group of volumes intersecting with each other and comprising al necessary functions: bed, kitchen, bathroom and a big storage system. while all the amenities are set as one big wooden block, the bathroom is arranged as a separate space right next to this volume. to reduce the costs and time of execution, bicbloc has designed ...
shanghai-based firm atelier deshaus has completed the structural renovation of a concrete industrial building in china’s zhejiang province. once the interiors are also complete, the ‘taizhou contemporary art museum’ will open as part of a new cultural destination, joining other converted factories and warehouse buildings. consequently, as the project’s centerpiece, the a...
the design of house 1 serves as a perfect base for a young and modern family where three design principles are to start with: the kitchen is the central core, horizontal and vertical connections are open and visible constructions work together with tangible textures. the landscape and the beautiful view can be seen from the spacious and naturally exposed kitchen which...
DFA created the 300-square-foot suspended pod so that it can be easily shipped to remote locations and placed in the landscape with very little impact. its four legs cover 13-square feet in total leaving growing plants and animals to exist below. as well as space to sleep, a shower, sink and toilet offer the necessities, with a water system that draws its supply from...
in porto feliz, a municipality in the brazilian state of são paulo, studio MK27 has completed a dwelling that the practice describes as ‘a radical exercise in horizontality’. appropriately named ‘planar house’, the residence is discreetly inserted at the plot’s highest point and topped with a green roof that mimics the surrounding lawn. referring to the roof as the build...
brazilian practice pascali semerdjian arquitetos’s ‘mms house’ in são paulo is a four-story residence with a ‘collapsing’ façade — the top of the building is missing some bricks which creates a sense of decomposing. comprising numerous vast and bright spaces, each floor of the building corresponds to a specific use and is decorated with original pieces designed by famous...
overlooking the las vegas skyline, this sprawling prefab home is not a new build, but it is new to the market. designed by LA-based studio marmol radziner, the ‘arrowhead’ house is listed by crosby doe associates for a casual $14,500,000 USD — a price tag that promises panoramic views, superior amenities, and even an on-site art installation by one of the world’s most ac...
the house and empty lot were both acquired by the owners of ‘king bill’ to have enough space for their vision. austin maynard architects designed this project for a family of four, who were so enchanted by the colorful neighborhood that they commissioned this as their ‘forever house.’ specifically, they wanted to both expand the house while simultaneously giving ‘somethi...
tsutsumi’s team was challenged to reuse the four existing houses and the main gate, also build new buildings in irregular shaped extended site around them. the architects set the combination of randomly stacked stone volumes to make various cozy platforms for enjoying the view of the snow mountain and the village. the roofs of the hotel complex are regularly arranged ...
on april 16, 2016, the coast of ecuador suffered an 7.8 grade-earthquake on richter scale. over 8.000 people became refugees in camps as a result. the reconstruction has been focused on the urban areas. the government has answered rapidly and along with the construction firms have developed big housing projects — mostly standard and generic. the rural areas inevitably ar...
materials, form, and spatial relationships in mcleod bovell‘s design are intended to create a relaxed atmosphere with various open spaces. column-free sliding doors at the southeast corner of the house double the size of the living area when open, while a narrow floor-plate, the result of the combination of the dining room and kitchen into a single long space, offers a g...
responding to the 2018 venice architecture biennale’s theme of ‘freespace’, alison brooks architects creates a large-scale, highly experiential installation. called ‘recasting’, the work addresses the subject of housing and urban dwelling, specifically with a focus on the practice’s related work. the space, which also comprises an amphitheater, is divided into four inhab...
the cafe is located on the way to the nanzenji temple in kyoto, a charming area of the city. the redesign was conceived by schemata architects who sought to ‘create equal relationships throughout the space.’ this theme is apparent from a visitor’s first steps inside the restoration.schemata architects placed great importance on the flooring of this project. the existing ...
the needs of the client have been translated into design gestures, in line with the essence of the building, which is not of particularly architectural quality, but interesting for the spaces that it can hold inside. planimetric distribution places on the ground floor all the main rooms and restrooms, in order to completely free up the first floor and dedicate it to a la...
the apartment is meant to inspire its owner — a singer-songwriter —to create music while staying at home. to let him change the environment from time to time and fully enjoy every single corner of the place, using the playful combination of colors and sunlight, cxema has created a palette of impressions that vary depending on the time of the day. to create a coherent ...
the house is located in a low-density, mountain area and has no visual contact with its neighboring structures, which allowed felipe assadi to make the grand gesture of painting it a contrasting, crimson red. the architects balanced the intense exterior with bright, airy interior spaces, finished with a floating staircase and floor-to-ceiling windows on the wall facing t...
casa bambu is oriented towards the prevailing winds that cross the pool and gardens to enter the house, providing a constant cooling breeze and refreshing the interior from the strong tropical heat. vilela florez has designed the house for a couple who spends most of the year sailing through the mediterranean. complementary to the natural color and material palette, bedr...
lucerne-based firm roeoesli & maeder has completed switzerland’s new embassy in nairobi, kenya’s capital and largest city. the building is surrounded by trees which have an embedded social and political importance following political activist wangari maathai’s green belt movement in the country, which began in 1977. set in a lush and leafy neighborhood, the embassy’s foo...
the retreat — the little house — is sited on a northern facing bluff overlooking hood canal. the project displays a dichotomy of object and landscape as the simple geometry is abstracted against the forest. the stark exterior of the house further contrasts the warm, bright interior. as it is intentionally restrained on this original footprint, early design discussions fo...
in the heart of lebanon’s capital, in the ashrafieh district of beirut, fouad samara architects has presented a creative solution to the increasingly ‘chaotic built environment that has plagued lebanese cities since the 1920s.’ outwardly sliding walls within the seven duplex lofts of the fourteen-story modulofts building equips tenants with the capacity for internal flex...
The residence by Palinda Kannangara Architects was built in Pittugala – a suburb of Colombo – and was commissioned by a young couple of artists. The clients closely collaborated with the architects to design their house and working space on a sloping site, close to the paddies. The house is developed in two floors adapting to the topography of the terrain. The ground ...
Designed by AE Arquitectos, Rancho San Francisco is part of a bigger project that integrates a community of multi-familiar properties or ranches that share common grounds as well as the amenities to create a solid sense of community. The ranch has a central patio that integrates these common grounds with the areas designed specifically for taking care of the horses and h...
Portuguese studio fala atelier says it is naive but it is not true. Naive means simple and unsophisticated; the young architects are perfectly aware of their path. The aesthetic movement was composed of self-taught painters, who were outside any academic circuit; instead, in less than five years fala has entered academic and biennial circuits, and it is omnipresent in ar...
In Lugano, Switzerland, Daniel Buren and Davide Macullo has completed a house that lies on the cusp between art and architecture, a living sculpture. Alongside its primary role in protecting man from the elements, it is an architecture that needs art to complete it. The cross in vertical projection, the rounding of the edges and the simple torsion of the roof make it dy...
Located in Melbourne, a classic, single story brick veneer home from the inter-war period was the subject of renovation and extension by FMD Architects. Client’s fondness for the aged eucalypt at the existing house's rear and of its connection to the famous “Old Be-al” gum in the Mallee inspired the formal qualities of the design, most notably in the ribbed ceiling of th...
Jorge Vidal designed an office space in the Ciutat de la Justícia, Barcelona, commissioned by the board of prosecutors of Barcelona. Natural materials – such as wood –are combined with a pastel palette mitigating the resolute scheme that defines the plan. The squared floors are both symmetrically divided in two areas by a central wooden piece of furniture, as a backbo...
In the town of Morelia, Mexico, HW-Studio turned an old winery into a gastronomic market. Mexican studio combined its contemporary language with the architectures of the past, exploring possible relationships and dialectics between both. That existing building was the backyard of a residence. However, over time, reforms, ownership changes and different uses of the place,...
Superimpose designed a cultural center for Changzhi, a city in Shanxi Province of China. The main design challenge for Superimpose was to either erase the current city fabric or try to preserve the province’s fewest remaining industrial heritage. The Changzhi City Expo hosts an exhibition centre, a government-meeting centre, office spaces and an auditorium. Key features ...
Espacio 18 Arquitectura and Cueto Arquitectura gave shape to a three-storey house as a solution to respond to internal regulations of the community of Puebla, Mexico. Here the real estate sector has grown dramatically and imposes projects that do not always meet the current and future spatial needs of inhabitants. The house has an introverted scheme and its patio works ...
Egide Meertens Plus Architects has completed a brick single family resindence in De Haan, Belgium. The design of this house is implanted onto the location of a building plot: a corner plot at the junction of two rural roads. A closed brick wall embraces the building and its front garden, creating the necessary security with respect to these two streets. A big window brea...
Barozzi Veiga has completed the renovation and extension of a music school located in the historical villa Casa Ragen, in Brunico, Italian South-Tirol. The project simply proposes the construction of a new “inhabited border”, which allows the characteristic urban tissue of Brunico – formed by the noble villas and sealed off gardens – to have continuity. The extension is...
Steven Vandenborre Architects renovated a house within an existing courtyard in the center of Ghent. The area is surrounded by university buildings, old towers, a Cathedral and the famous ‘Boekentoren’ of Henry Vandevelde. The owners wanted to build a house full of glass openings to have an open view on the garden. The architects created a structure with a grid of woo...
Supervoid’s project for an apartment inside Palazzo Doria Pamphilj relates to two different scales. On the one hand, the relatively small surface (190 square meters) of the collector’s flat, accommodating both representative spaces (the foyer, also functioning as a gallery, and the living room with open kitchen) and private rooms (two bedrooms and three salles de bain). ...
In the 10th arrondissement, Paris, two unassuming hausmannian façades enclose an elongated and dilapidated lot. The latter includes a relatively insalubrious housing building – insalubre being a key word within the vocabulary of 20th century French urban planning – and a ramshackle multi-storey garage. These are two different types of ordinary architectural heritage, eac...
