Located in the bustling Haidian District in Beijing, this small family home emanates big style with its sleek interior and modern finishings. Being only 116 sqm (1245 sqft) and fashioned with a sloping roof, designer Chen Hongwen and his team at HAO Design had their work cut out for them. Luckily, they fearlessly rose to […]
UK-based artist Alex Chinneck has unveiled his latest architectural installation, transforming the walls of a soon-to-be-demolished 1960s office building on the former Kent Wool Growers site in Ashford, England. “Open to the Public” features an eight-meter-high double zip running down the side of the building, revealing the forlorn interior.
The Hill House is a modern year-round refuge located on a wooded hillside. The house, acting as a threshold, marks the transition from trees to rolling fields that extend to the distant waterfront. Because it is situated on a nature preserve and protected wetlands, great care was taken to design a home reverential to its location. The client, a trustee of the Shelter Island Nature Conservancy, requested a home that was sensitively knit into the site with intimate spaces for the family and a large outdoor event space for entertaining.
Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen has sunk a scale model of one of Le Corbusier’s most famous buildings in a Danish fjord, as a statement about the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election. Flooded Modernity is one of 10 works on display at the Floating Art Festival on the Vejle Fjord, an art and architecture event organised by the Vejle
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Following the October 2017 unveiling of NEOM, Saudi Arabia’s $500-billion futuristic city billed as a “startup the size of a country,” details of the project’s progression have been scarce. Situated close to the border with Jordan and the Red Sea, the remote area has been sealed off to visitors, leaving onlookers to speculate with minimal details, such as the announcement by Japan’s Softbank that they were investing in the megacity.
Chinese architecture studio Wutopia Lab has transformed Building 25 of the Sinan Mansions in Shanghai into a bookstore that takes inspiration from the human body and mind. The studio designed the bookstore, named Sinan Books: Shanghai Sanctum, for the Shanghai Century Publishing Group and Yongye Group to be a space for learning and thinking. “Sinan Books is
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This chapel was commissioned to be part of the Holy See Pavilion by the Vatican for the Venice 2018 Architecture Biennale. The project was curated and organized by Professor Francesco Dal Co, who was inspired by a large overgrown wooded site on the south side of the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, and a visit to Erik Gunnar Asplund’s Woodland Chapel in Stockholm. Professor Dal Co invited ten architects from around the world to design chapels for this unique site.
the extension to the existing venues of the park, features a bridge leading through woods and a shape reminiscent of traditional chinese architecture.
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A courtyard sits at the centre of this converted canal house apartment in the centre of Amsterdam by local firm Standard Studio. Built in the early 17th century, the canal house is located within a former courtyard where it is overlooked by surrounding residential buildings. The only part of the house visible from the street
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