The site challenged the architects with its narrow and prolonging parameters, where the length significantly overshadowed the 8-meter width. It was located on a slope of a mountainous area with deserted scenery from the surrounding neighborhood. Regarding the tricky shaped site, the specific solution for a beautiful homestay for travelers was to create viewports from and within the premises.
The site chosen for this small addition of a children’s library within a school in rural Maharashtra, was a sliver between existing buildings and the school boundary, a site that almost implied a linear building footprint to adjust the program for the chosen site. Alluding to the impetus that children have towards landscape over a building we imagined the library building to be a formal extension of the ground plane. A place inside for study and a place above for play. With the limited teaching resources available in the larger vicinity we needed the inspiring spatial experience to be a magnet to attract students and hopefully other residents from the nearby settlements after school hours.
Photography by Robert Yu Photography As part of the interior renovation of a home in Dallas, Texas, architect and interior design firm OFFICIAL, included a built-in window seat and bookshelf in the master bedroom. Sitting below a large picture window, the wood-lined window seat adds a natural touch to the room, while providing a place […]
Photography by Tomasz Borucki Widawscy Studio Architektury have recently completed a new house in Sokolow Podlaski, Poland, and as part of the design, they created a master bedroom suite with patterns and textures. In the bedroom there’s a white brick wall that’s adjacent to a simple wood slat accent wall. The designers chose to use […]
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Designed shortly before Zaha Hadid left the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)—led by Rem Koolhaas—to found her practice, Zaha Hadid Architects, the proposed extension for the Dutch Parliament firmly rejects the notion that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Rather than mimic the style of the existing historic buildings, OMA elected to pay tribute to the complex’s accretive construction by inserting a collection of visibly postmodern, geometric elements. These new buildings, unapologetic products of the late 1970s, would have served as unmistakable indicators of the passage of time, creating a graphic reminder of the Parliament’s long history.
Modern China is a place of continuously shifting socioeconomics. By 2020, more than 60% of the population will reside in urban areas – a dramatic increase from the 26% of 1990. This massive urbanization and densification puts tremendous pressure on both cities and citizens to adapt quickly. Soon the majority of people in China will live in mid- or high-rise residential towers, whose standardized layouts will become increasingly unaccommodating for the new nuclear family unit, digital nomad, or co-living / co-working community.
DP9131 house is built within the brand new a housing lot where the whole area was empty in the design period. There is neither context nor place-ness to consider. These days in Korea, two-housing units in one building (generally called ‘peanut-house’) is famous as one is for owner and the other is for rent to manage the cost of construction. As these houses generally tend to juxtapose two houses for independency and privacy, it likely weakens the integrity of building in architectural point of view. For DP9131 house, we aimed to provoke the integrity of form by systemizing the organization of internal and external spaces in the house rather than simply splitting into two masses. DP9131 house is started from 9×9 grid system where 9 division into 1 building, 3 housing units into 1 house transformed by the spatial requirements. By three-dimensional engagement of spaces, it tried achieving the clarity and integrity of form.
The Open House New York event is spotlighting architecture and landscape projects across the city that are designed by women, and will be available to tour this weekend. The Works by Women initiative celebrates the contributions that female architects and designers have made to New York’s urban fabric. Open House New York (OHNY) has highlighted
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The Open House New York event is spotlighting architecture and landscape projects across the city that are designed by women, and will be available to tour this weekend. The Works by Women initiative celebrates the contributions that female architects and designers have made to New York’s urban fabric. Open House New York (OHNY) has highlighted
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