O-office Architects reinterprets traditional Chinese courtyard house in concrete and steel

July 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This contemporary reinterpretation of a vernacular courtyard house in the Chinese city of Guangzhou features a sequence of living areas and bedrooms arranged around a central pond. Local studio O-office Architects designed the three-bedroom Veranda Courthouse for a site on a gently sloping south-facing hillside in a northern suburb of Guangzhou. In response to the

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School Hoek / ebtca architecten

July 3, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

A new school in the city park of Zaventem. The design idea is to plant the building as modest as possible on the site to preserve the existing trees and green space. The location of the building is determined by giving a solution at the least pleasant edge zone of the park. The park gets a new ‘hoek’ [angle].

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Pasang / BodinChapa Architects

July 3, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

Pasang is a small hidden café in a sufficient economy village in a suburb of ChiangRai, The community has its main economic crop as pineapple. It leads to the concept of being a mediator between the people in the community and the visitors by communicating with pineapple processing from local people who still live their own traditional way along with the city’s development harmoniously.

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Voice of Coffee / Yusuke Seki

July 3, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

This coffee shop, located just off of a bustling district in Kobe, is housed in a former barbershop. The three letters above the entrance, “AAA,” are a vestige of its former use, reminding visitors of the history of the site. The façade, which used to extend to the street, has been set back and opened up as a glass front.

Colorful Ropes Line The Walls And Ceiling Of This Restaurant

July 2, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Adrià Goula   Lucas Echeveste Lacy, Oliver Franz Schmidt and Natali Canas del Pozo of El Equipo Creativo, have designed the Pakta Restaurant in Barcelona, Spain, that features an interior with brightly colored ropes. In the Quechua language of Peru, “Pakta” means “union”, and in this case, the union of two cultures, Peruvian and Japanese, […]

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Spiral Garden / Ryuichi Ashizawa Architects & associates

July 2, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

The project is a house dedicated to a family of four who lives on the slope of Awaji Island. On the 986.54 m² site, a design that considers the temperate nature of Awaji Island as well as the family’s distinctive, nature-conscious approach to all aspects of life, was planned. In response to its’ context, the house combines locals’ timber dwelling construction with a unique form, consisting of a continuous spiral that rises towards the central space.

Penda unveils designs for Tel Aviv tower wrapped in modular arcades

July 2, 2018 India Block 0

Penda has designed a residential tower in Tel Aviv, with facades made of modular archways and terraces, which aims to complement the city’s legacy of Bauhaus architecture. Vienna and Beijing-based architecture studio Penda has revealed plans for the 116-metre-high Tel Aviv Arcades, which has alternating setbacks to provide residents with sunny garden terraces or secluded private balconies.

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