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Department of Radio and Television University of Silesia / BAAS Arquitecture + Grupa 5 Architekci + Małeccy Biuro Projektowe

May 30, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

The project designed by two architecture practices – BAAS architects from Barcelona and Grupa 5 Architekci, won the first award in the competition for the Radio and Television Faculty of Silesia University in Katowice. The building permit project and construction project was done by: BAAS architects, Grupa 5 Architekci and Małeccy Biuro Projektowe from Katowice.

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Reconstruction of a Chalet / frundgallina

May 30, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

Chalet in Brot-Plamboz is a minimalist residence located in the Swiss Jura near Neuchâtel, designed by frundgallina. In relation to the exceptional landscape of equal value on all sides, the building area was divided into four identical portions of about 8 m2. These neighborhoods were then divided at a different altitude, chosen precisely to ensure their accessibility. This results in a great spatial variety, dictated essentially by the heights of the pieces. Thus, within the volume defined by the old cottage, three of the four surfaces could be organized on two levels to obtain a total of seven spaces of special uses.

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Tree-ness House / Akihisa Hirata

May 30, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

This project is a complex building of houses and galleries built in Tokyo, Toshimaku. One tree is organically integrated with a combination of parts having different characteristics, such as a trunk, a branch, and a leaf.  As with the tree, we tried to create an organic architecture that could be formed by a hierarchical combination of different parts such as plants/pleats (as openings) / concrete boxes.

The Shack by Feldman Architecture

May 29, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Phil Bond   Feldman Architecture have designed the remodel of a small Californian cottage nicknamed ‘The Shack’, and its rustic contemporary two-storey addition. The architects worked together with their clients, well-known photographer Catherine Wagner and designer Loretta Gargan, to design the home, landscape, and interiors, that would create an escape from city life. […]

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Fushengyu Hotspring Resort / AIM Architecture

May 29, 2018 舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang 0

Fushengyu Hotspring Resort is located in the north of Sichuan at the foot of the Luo Fu Shan mountain range. Tree-capped mountains dotted with temples pleasantly surround the site. It is a place where water has shaped the land. Rivers have carved out the valley and water naturally springs from the earth in warm water wells. It is one of China’s traditional hot spring areas.

Lakeside cottage extension by ACDF takes cues from traditional neighbour

May 29, 2018 James Brillon 0

This extension to a Canadian cottage by Montreal studio ACDF Architecture echoes the traditional language of the original home, but executed with contemporary geometry and finishes. The new addition is dubbed La Petite Soeur – or The Little Sister – based on the references it takes from the pitched-roof home to adjoins. “The extension preserves

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Hilltop School Bright Horizon Academy / Design Aware

May 29, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

A charity school that had been run by a zakah-funded, nonprofit educational trust for the last six years finally required a building. The site is located on a hill top, in the unplanned settlement within the walls of the Golconda fort in Hyderabad. The project was riddled with multiple challenges. Since the school is run solely based on individual donations, the budget was extremely tight. Material choices had to be economical as well as durable. The site is highly contoured and covered with sheet rock and buried under a blanket of garbage piled on over decades. Articulating the peculiar and difficult topography of the site and its surrounds posed a major challenge: due to proximity to heritage structures and dense urban context, most of which is residential, blasting the rock was not an option, and other methods were not affordable.