architecture

A small garden is the theme of this house. The size of the garden is 3x4m. Surrounded by low stone walls, the floor is finished with soil, and overhead is covered with a translucent roof with louvers.

Roche?s campus in Grenzach-Wyhlen was established more than a century ago as its first manufacturing base near the Swiss border. It now houses around 1450 employees working for Roche Pharma AG (Germany). The campus? architectural heritage reveals...

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has collaborated with University of Michigan Taubman College to create the SPLAM [SPatial LAMinated timber], a robotically-fabricated timber pavilion for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial. The pavilion...

HawkinsBrown has transformed an under-used library building on Plumstead High Street into a combined centre that provides public cultural, leisure and sports facilities on behalf of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. New amenities include separate...

The Grey House is a contemporary L-shaped house located in Sossano, Italy, designed in 2020 by Giorgio Parise. Description At the foot of the Berici Hills immersed in a park of 5000 square meters, the villa adopts an...

Design studio Taller KEN has unveiled Bright Stripes, an installation in Downtown Brooklyn designed to bring people together through simple artistic means. The objective for this installation was spearheaded by Greg Melitonov of Taller KEN in...

SUMMIT One Vanderbilt is New York?s latest observation viewpoint, soon opening to the public on top of the KPF-designed tower. Featuring an observation deck, skyboxes, an all-glass elevator, complemented by a walk-through art installation, the...

Led by Iyad Alsaka, Adrianne Fisher, and Wael Sleiman, OMA?s latest project, the Prestige Liberty Towers, breaks ground in Mumbai, India. Expected to be completed in 2025, the mixed-used complex is the firm?s first venture in India, located in the...

Interior PM is a contemporary residence located in Bratislava, Slovakia, designed in Studio Cakov+Partners. Description We designed the interior for clients who decided to move back to the capital because they were tired of...

From the end of 2016 to 2018, Groundwork has been commissioned by the Architectural Services Department of Hong Kong to research and produce a design guideline on the future planning of children\'s public playground facilities in Hong Kong. Within...

Commercial spaces must be enticing enough to pull people in, and comforting enough to keep them there. It?s this balance that makes the utilization of technical lighting so important to master.

MONOARCHI has completed four hot spring huts in the southeast corner of Tangshan Mountain in Nanjing. The 5,000sqm site is on a hill and has one side of stacked rocks, standing out as a solitary island from the woods. According to the geomorphic...

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Located in St-Sauveur, an old industrial neighborhood of downtown Québec in which many buildings are being replaced by new housing projects, Quinto replaces a small single-family home at the intersection of Montmagny and Boisseau streets. The...

As a rising trend, the current pandemic scenario has resulted in a reverse exodus, with big-city dwellers mindfully seeking out off-the-grid addresses that offer them both sterile isolation and connectivity to essential resources. Built-in Kallada...

Architectural practice TYPE has reclaimed a dilapidated stone barn in Devon, giving it renewed purpose as a sustainable, contemporary rural family home.

The new volume creates a spatial tension with the old steel structure, the sloping roof planes, and the rough materiality. The architectural intervention itself can be read as one large piece of furniture that organises the entire programme. This...

ONA House is a modern apartment redesigned in 2020 by Anna Solaz, located in Liria, Spain. Description Casa Ona is the transformation of an existing building from the 90s conceived as an architecture office into mixed-use; housing...

Vietnam is a developing country, urbanization is happening rapidly and it is driving people away from nature. The buildings around us are gradually concreting and leaving bad effects on our own living environment. Yen Architecture hopes that through...

Sex Day is an unofficial holiday created by marketers celebrated on September 6th in Brazil, highlighting one of the greatest taboos in modern society: sexuality. From an architectural and urban point of view, the immorality associated with...

"If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, with about 2.8 billion tons, surpassed only by China and the United States." This statement in Lucy Rodgers\' BBC report on the...

Arrow View is a contemporary extension to a single family house located in Herefordshire, England, UK, designed in 2021 by AR Design Studio. Description Arrow View is a bespoke contemporary extension project completed in summer...

For the second Berlin branch of Aera ? a gluten-free bread manufacturer and café located at Rosenthaler Platz ? the architecture duo Gonzalez Haase AAS designed a space that takes full advantage of its prominent location by being impossible to...

The design of a residential building through a system of visual, personal, and spatial relationships was the starting point for this project where tradition and contemporaneity go together.

We had to leave Tokyo to live in Kyoto. We thought that since we were going to live there, we should think about living there. Kyoto is an ancient city surrounded by mountains. The city\'s economic scale has restricted the height and floor area...

Commerce has seen many changes over the past few years, especially as people worldwide have found new ways to connect and work with one another. In spite of this rapid progress, traditional commerce and cultures remain strong in Mexico City\'s...

Village-esque Nursery School

Changshu is a vital textile industry gathering centre in China. In the city development process, textile workshop, represented by textile manufacturing sites, becomes the essential architectural type in the city. Changshu embroidered garment factory...

HaMy’s House is a modern single family house located in Nguy?n V?n V?nh, Vietnam, has been designed in 2021 by Ashera Architects. Description HaMy’s house is an interesting interior renovation designed...

Less than two months ago, the future of an 1894 Dutch Colonial-style home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright wasn?t looking all that bright after it hit the market for $1.3 million in the Chicago suburb of Hinsdale, Illinois. As of this week, however,...

MAD Architects has announced "The Star", a new landmark that will foster culture, creativity, and inspiration in Los Angeles, California. Nestled in the heart of Hollywood, the Star\'s reflective architecture nods the neighborhood\'s...

For generations, the family of the client has maintained a farm household by cultivating their fields in this site in the central area of Saitama prefecture. Houses in this farming area used to share an orderly pattern, commonly with a water path, a...

Handling the Scenery is a contemporary apartment located in Saint Paul’s Bay, Malta, designed in 2015 by Daniel Scerri Periti. Description We were approached with a request to design the furnishings for an existing...

Our new home was created in a historical part of a small South Bohemian town, which, although neglected, possesses a rather strong atmosphere and potential. The place attracted us from the beginning for its distinctive character and great location....

The fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial opened to the public on September 17th, showcasing a series of 15 site-specific interventions within the urban environment that tap into ideas of shared space and collective agency, exploring...

The project for the new General Consulate of Portugal was planned as an extension of Saint Clemente’s Palace in Rio de Janeiro. Benefiting from a spacious site and a valuable location, the new volume introduces itself into the pre-existing...

There are various forms of relaxation. To capture this, we drew the diverse form of relaxation on a long sheet of paper, then folded it while cutting out the openings with scissors. We built MOSP: a place that reflects each individual?s form of...

TA Apartment is a modern home located in Tel Aviv, Israel, designed in 2021 by Maya Sheinberger. Description The apartment: a 135 sq.m. apartment in a building that was in the process of a complete renovation in the Yad...

Since the 2015 Paris agreement, mitigating climate change has been established as a common, world-encompassing goal; however, both the impacts of the climate crisis and the actions currently being taken vary widely across the globe. At the moment,...

Sky-Frame Swiss-made frameless windows and sliding doors continue to revolutionize the transition between indoors and outdoors, by providing unbounded spatial experiences with spectacular vistas.

When we look at Samui Island from the bird-eye view, other than the rapid growth in construction throughout the island, we would see what is left of nature and what has been with Samui from the beginning of time, the coconut trees. While most people...

Zen is a contemporary residence located in Zejtun, Malta, designed in 2020 by Daniel Scerri Periti. Description Tucked away behind an unassuming facade in the heart of the Mediterranean village of Zejtun, Malta,...

Mist. The first thing that came into our mind when we started to work on this F&B design, which became our core concept of this project. The LED light is installed at the ceiling, starting from the entrance to the end of the space, running...

South of Tulum, on a 476 m2 plot, architects Fernanda Rodríguez and Joel Martínez designed and constructed four apartments which, altogether, sum 811 m2. Each one has its unique layout and personality, but they all were planned to ideally respond to...

The project is a mosque that bears the name of Al-Tasamoh mosque, located on a plot in the area of Sanhadja, a village located in the governorate of Mannouba. The project was primarily an opportunity to fulfill the desire to participate in adopting...