architecture

This pavilion is a part of a project ?Open-Air Flat? organized by PIK Group ? a leading real estate developer in Russia ? for Picnic ?Afisha? music festival. Pop-up structures that symbolized the rooms of an abstract flat were situated in different...

With Dai Kim house (4x14m), as most of the street houses in Vietnam, the solution of natural light and ventilation is a prerequisite for the design task.

The project is conceived as a temple in the jungle; the abundant vegetation in the area traced the lead to the conception of this segmented block which permits simultaneously the strongly wished sequence between inner and outer spaces, achieving...

The old Industrial Remain, the Reborn LiangzhuMengxi Town is the hometown of Shen Kuo and the first industrial design town in China, of which the name is homophonic with Mengxi (One of Shen Kuo\'s masterpieces\' title). Every year, more than 500...

The project for the musicality school is born from a great conversation about the processes of musical learning and creativity. As a result of this symbiosis, key concepts arose to which the architecture of the new space...

A small sector of the old pavilions of the shipyard of the Port of Leixões has been the secretariat of the Atlantic Sailing Club since 1944. With a privileged location, two facades on the first line of the sea, the area is the best location...

Concept: Coexistence of old and modern appearanceThis building with Gwanghwamunhaemul is believed to have been built in 1940. We wanted to see the Gwanghwamunhaemul as a brand suitable for Jeong-dong, where the modern and old tastes coexist, and...

The Garden of Framed Scenes expands the notion of pubic art and sculpture to create a space for the inhabitants of the city. It is situated at an infrastructural crossroads within Fontelo Park?transforming a space of flows into a space of gathering....

A consolidated landscape surrounded by gardens, a large and elongated plot with a distant view of the sea and a pleasant breeze. This is the searched and lucky starting point trigger of this story.

The maximal external volume of the house was determined before the start of the design. This limit defined the footprint, the maximum height of the building and the height of the individual floors, which are linked to the existing school...

Both man and woman for whom we designed the villa have young children from a previous relationship. Our client\'s desire was to build a house that would facilitate the coming together of those two families. This resulted in a design with separate...

Cortezza building is located in the north part of Bogotá city, in the sector of Parque de la 93. The area is characterized by the multiplicity of uses and the strong presence of office buildings and a wide variety of trade of various scales....

EID Architecture has been selected as one of the two finalists in an international competition to design a 518 meter-tall tower in Fuzhou, China. Located on a prominent riverfront site in Fuzhou, Shimao North Riverfront Tower would become the...

Dique Luján is a small town in the Province of Buenos Aires, located in the northern area of ??the same and bounded by the Luján River and the Villanueva Canal. It is a town that meets the characteristics of the typical villages of the...

Hussein bin Talal Park in Grozny, ordinary at the first glance, could be considered as one of the first contemporary public space in the Russian Caucasus. After the regional conflicts that followed the fall of the Soviet Union, Grozny, the capital...

Urban Sketchers is an international non-profit organization dedicated to fostering a global community of artists who practice on-site drawings to enhance the artistic, narrative, and educational value of drawing. Connecting people from all over the...

Mumbai-based NUDES architecture office have revealed a new design called "Mosque of Light" as their entry in the Dubai Creek Harbor competition. The project was designed as a play in light with a multi-layered geometrical form to filter...

Located on the Road intersection (Beihuan Road and Yiyuan Road), architects designed a border-less plan layout making the nasty toilet blank out behind greening surrounded,assimilate into nature.Boundary between architecture and nature becomes...

Russian practice Kleinewelt Architekten have designed a mixed-use housing block for Moscow that features a carved stone-relief facade. Inspired by historic Russian chambers and Italian palazzos, the project combines a residential building with...

Casa Sebastian is a residence located in the heart of the port of Chuburna in the state of Yucatan. Designed as a rest house where the owners could relax and be in touch with nature during their visits.

As if hanging over the historical walls of the ammunition depots, the house is part of the Ras? Quarter located in Pavilniai Regional Park.  Here the houses of the archetype traditional silhouette harmoniously merge with the environment. The large...

Located in one of the most extensively developed areas in the north of the city of Querétaro, and 100m from one of the principal avenues, AIRA is a tower of 35 apartments. The project is located on a narrow and deep site measuring 2,100 m2....

The new home has been built into a section of the barn of an agricultural court at the gates of Verona, near the river Adige. The project?s leitmotif is a spatial and material dialogue between history and modernity, and it is also characterized by...

Located in the winding valley of Mogan Mountain, the newly-built Sury Resort No.3 occupies the site of a decommissioned warehouse. With an area of 580 m2, it contains six guest rooms, an outdoor swimming pool, a bar and other...

London architecture today, for all the big-hitters that dominate the headlines (Foster, Rogers, Heatherwick), finds its richness in small studios. Peter Barber leads one such studio, where for the past 30 years he has led the development of some of...

With the conversion into high-end urban lofts Bureau Fraai & BNLA architecten made the design for the upgrade of former office spaces underneath two of in total four characteristic 60?s mixed-use residential blocks of Dutch functionalist Piet...

Distance affects the way of communicationDr. Edward Hall, an American anthropologist who divides four different types of distances from interpersonal relationships, and the renowned socialist Erving Goffman defined ?to meet? as "the constant...

This is the home of my younger sister Francisca and her family. Nestled on Lo Curro hill in Vitacura, Santiago, the house boasts stunning views of the city and the Andes mountain range. 

The Forest House is an exploration into materiality, light and the integration of architecture into the landscape. Situated in an exclusive forest estate in Durban, South Africa, the forest house strives to frame the landscape with clean horizontal...

A historic hotbed of architectural styles and a current architectural capital of the world, cities in the United Kingdom are awash with iconic buildings from the Georgian, Neoclassical, and contemporary era. Such buildings, from the Clifton...

Set on top of a forested ridge separating downtown Portland and the suburban sprawl of Beaverton, OR, Wildwood is a rural retreat and primary residence hidden within the metro area of the Pacific Northwest. Description The...

BackgroundCaligari Brewing is a handmade beer brand which has a large draft beer brewery in Songdo, Incheon. We can already see Caligari Brewing on trendy alleys and streets such as in Seongsu-dong and Itaewon-dong .

Located in Berlin-Wedding, the multi-use atelier and gallery building combines different forms of usage.  Although the area has no binding land-use plan, a regulation from 1958 only permits the construction of commercial buildings. Yet at the same...

Located in Cáceres, the house is a simple prismatic volume with a square floor plan of 16-meter sides, and each of the four facades is perforated by three Windows. The stretches of a wall have been constructed with local quartzite stone, and...

Canadian Architect has announced the winners of its annual Awards of Excellence program. Now in its 51st year, the awards are ?the highest recognition for excellence in the design stage in the Canadian architectural sector.? Celebrating unbuilt and...

L?Accostée House is located in the Adstock area, on the shores of Lac St-François. It was designed in 2017 by Bourgeois / Lechasseur Architectes. Description The clients have lived on this beautiful site for a few years and...

Apartment 210, with 11 residential units and the total area of 2500 square meters has been constructed on a land of 1000 square meters in the second phase of Mehrshahr district in Karaj. Unit areas vary from two-bedroom 115 square meters to...

It?s not often a design firm gets to go back and check in on past projects.  Usually, we visit a few weeks after move-in, but it?s rare that we get to see a space a few years later. Meraki?s expansion to a new floor offered an opportunity to observe...

The International VELUX Award 2018 sought to highlight the work of architecture students around the globe who challenge the use of daylight in built environments. The award, titled ?Light of Tomorrow,? was launched in 2004 and is awarded biennially...

This extract was originally published on Common Edge as "The Legacy of Christopher Alexander: Criteria for an Intelligent Architecture."

Ninh Binh is a small, peaceful city, located 100km to the south of Hanoi ? the capital of Vietnam. Most of the new urban houses here are designed and built in the old-fashioned French mansion style, which was carelessly copied from colonial-style...

PLP Architecture?s Tower Ten, the new expansion of the World Trade Center Amsterdam, officially began construction last week. The ground breaking ceremony was launched by deputy director Sandra Thesing of the City of Amsterdam and Ronald van der...

Palimpsests were manuscripts elaborated more than 1,000 years ago (VII century), which, due to economy, erased the traces of previous writings on the surface to give rise to the one that would come next.

The house was designed for a young couple, newly married, who loves to host. She is an architect and her husband own a restaurant. The parti was to fully integrate the environments to increase amplitude, bringing an airy and well-lit space, since...

This amazing mountain residence designed in 2017 by Thellend Fortin Architectes is situated in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Canada. Description Inspiration for this home comes from the majestic landscape of the St. Lawrence...