architecture

It might be winter right now, and heat may not be an issue, but it will be spring and then summer again before you know it. As such, now is the perfect time to update cooling options in your property, including ceiling fans. With so many...

Wisdom Olion Nursery is transformed from a long factory building. The client asks for many classrooms, but the budget offered is tight. Another challenging thing here is to provide enough surface for kids to have outdoor activities. How to have...

Stefan Dechant is a production designer with over 25 years of experience in the industry working alongside reputable filmmakers like James Cameron (Avatar), Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland), and Sam Mendes (Jarhead). Recently, Stefan served as the...

1,000 Trees is a mixed-use development designed to emerge like a pair of forest-capped mountains from the waterfront in Shanghai. The first phase to be completed ? the western half of the site ? contains shops, cafes, restaurants, new public spaces...

Fengyuzhu Metaverse Digital Art Museum is a virtual art world open to M generation users, which is created by Fengyuzhu on Xirang, a metaverse platform of Baidu. As one of the cultural facilities cluster of Fengyuzhu metaverse, the museum carries...

K45 Residence is a lovely two-story house located in Athens, Greece, designed in 2020 by KKMK Architects. Photography courtesy of Billy Zoupas Visit KKMK ArchitectsThe post K45 Residence by KKMK Architects first appeared on...

On ground floor of a 1930?s old house in Shanghai, atelier tao+c transformed the former residential space into a boutique retail space for SPMA. It is a typical lane house, the structure is made of load bearing brick walls and wooden floor. The...

Yesporciento is an architecture and research studio founded by Sebastián Castro, architect and skateboarder. From Chile, his interests lie around strategies to maximise and strengthen the public and collective space through the Skateboarding...

Textile forms of habitation are far from new; in fact, humans have been using fabric to create shelter for thousands of years, becoming an archetypal form of building. Today, contemporary architecture has rediscovered the principle of the tent and...

This minimalist apartment located in Kyiv, Ukraine, has been recently designed by Alena Yudina. Description This apartment is a very calm space. It overlooks the landscape and in order to preserve this potential, a...

When talking about Den Da coffee, most of the customers will immediately remember the highlights of the atmosphere from both old and modern Saigon. That is the reason why Ksoul continues to get inspiration from distinctive colors and details of...

In recent years, there?s been a significant amount of clamor around the habits and impacts of the millennial generation. Headlines often read ?Millennials Responsible for the Decline of Cereal?, ?Millenials Are Why We No Longer Use Napkins?, and...

In this two-part episode of Design and the City - a podcast on how to make cities more livable ? reSITE covers the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, exploring the question of ?How will we live together". Part-one looks into the works of the...

The project of the new Manufacture de Haute Horlogerie Audemars Piguet in Les Saignoles, (Le Locle, NE) was developed and realized between 2017 and 2021 by the Swiss office Kunik de Morsier architectes. For the watchmaker?s needs, they designed a...

Apartment Near Vake Park is a 210 sqm contemporary home located in Tbilisi, Georgia, designed in 2021 by The Wall Design Studio. Description The apartment is in the center of Tbilisi, the most prestigious district and it...

Thuan An town is a border area between South Binh Duong and North Ho Chi Minh City. T. Because this is a peripheral area, it has low construction density with many trees and gardens. In recent years, with rapid urbanization, many residential areas...

The Gletschergarten is located at the foot of a large sandstone rock on the Wesemlin hill in the north of the city of Lucerne. The origin of the sandstone goes back to a marine beach that formed the then the tropical region of Lucerne 20 million...

MVRDV ?s latest project designed for government-owned power company Taipower is ?a tool for energy production?, communicating Taiwan?s goal of transitioning to green energy. The morphology of the project and its architectural image are entirely...

A plot with three different levels and a simple structural set were the architectural starting point and the logic that this brutalist house was built. There are three blocks, levels and sectors;

The Great Unit Apartment is a modernist home located in Tel Aviv, Israel, designed by K.O.T Architects. Description On the third floor of an old modernistic structure on the outskirts of the Florentin neighborhood in Southern...

The Middle East has undergone many changes in recent decades. In the last two decades in Iran, sanctions, the shadow of war, and media hegemony have changed our daily lives. Widespread frustration on an individual and social scale has led to a wave...

Adaptive reuse is the sustainable face of architecture. This visionary process of architectural alchemy allows cities to thrive and remain relevant, without forgetting their past.

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT. The \'San Giacomo Apostolo\' parish complex is a catalyst for the area in which it is located, forming a new nerve center capable of creating identity in the local community and promoting socialization,...

Hill to Horizon is a contemporary house in New Zealand designed by Lloyd Hartley Architects in 2020. Description Champagne gold and pastel purples; sunrises and sunsets shape the scene for this blended family home. There...

Volksentscheid Berlin Autofrei (People?s Decision for Auto-Free Berlin), has proposed a plan to limit cars within Berlin\'s Ringbahn, a long circle route around the inner city, making it the world\'s largest car-free area once approved. The...

The house is located in the area of via campagnola in Genestrerio, characterized by a diffuse settlement mainly inhabited. The ground is located at the border with the wood on the north side. Our intervention consists of a house on one floor. The...

From planning to construction, architecture is more than designing buildings. With many multidisciplinary actors involved and the continuous flow of images, plans, and files, any project is also about managing large amounts of information. Because...

We are starting to say goodbye to the year and after a review of all the contents developed, we find ourselves with a wide range of architectural advice that involves both interior and exterior spaces. Addressing issues from the domestic sphere to...

Casa Play Black is a chic home located in Turin, Italy, redesigned in 2021 by Bodà-Architetti. Description The project rethinks the interior spaces of an early twentieth-century villa on the hill of Turin, a few steps from the...

The 60th edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano has been postponed and will now take place from the 7th till the 12th of June 2022. The decision was taken by the Board of Federlegno Arredo Eventi, in agreement with Fiera Milano, who voted to postpone...

The Yuandang Pedestrian Bridge celebrates the coming together of Jiangsu Province and Shanghai.

Across the globe, museums function as cultural landmarks ? spaces of significance that quite often become defining symbols of a city?s architectural landscape. Historical examples such as the Museum de Fundatie in the Netherlands and The Louvre...

McCrae Bush House is a modern house located in McCrae, Australia, designed in 2021 by Chan Architecture. Description Located on a long and sloping site along the Mornington Peninsula, the McCrae Bush house is a dwelling that...

The German Design Awards have been presented by the German Design Council for the tenth time. The internationally renowned prizes are awarded to companies whose pioneering products and projects stand out in the categories of ?Excellent Product...

As in previous interventions, and following them, the character and language of the existing building was preserved, for being an integral part of a period industrial complex, still showing a strong symbolic content alive in the city but which...

The Project is part of an alottment plan that previously predicted a set of seven isolated houses that would follow the existing topography. In the northern side of the site is defined by the city’s urban limit. The aim of the promoter was to...

At the foothills of the Dolomite Mountains and nestled within a web of ski slopes and hiking trails, MoDusArchitectswww.modusarchitects.com has revamped Icaro Hotel www.hotelicaro.com as a stereometric volume in wood that quietly adds a new fragment...

The European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation have announced the 40 shortlisted works that will compete for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture ? Mies van der Rohe Award. The shortlist featured projects built...

The Artisan House is an extension to an existing one-story house which is intended to be a private gallery for the owner\'s art collection and additional space for family activities. The location of this house is part of the gated community that...

Sunny Apartments is a colorful home located in St. Petersburg, Russia, designed in 2021 by Anastasia Gurina. Photography courtesy of Anastasia Gurina Visit Anastasia GurinaThe post Sunny Apartments by Anastasia Gurina first...

Located in the heart of Avándaro, Valle de Bravo, Avándaro 333 is a housing project developed on a 17,000m2 site, which is conceived from two fundamental firsts; The consolidation of an active and collaborative community and respecting...

Since ancient times, Fuyang has been a treasured land sit by the Fuchun River. The restored Yangbei Lake Wetland is divided into a larger part and a smaller part in a long strip which two parts are connected by a wooden arch bridge and surrounded by...

Living Bakkali, like the restaurant\'s name expresses is a place to live sensorial experiences both for the palate as well as for the tact and the vision. Inspired by the Middle East the design wishes to take you to the most profound part of the...

Villa MSV is a single-story house located Lund, Sweden, designed in 2019 by Johan Sundberg Architectural Design. Description MSV lies at the heart of a stately pine forest, beside the white beaches of Ljunghusen. Though it is...

In the suburbs of Seoul, we finally meet the end of a deep and calm village by climbing a long mountain path, which filters complicated and distracting things in our minds. It?s the place where we forget the tempo of busy and tiring city life. We...