Niloufar Villa / Line Architecture Studio
Niloufar villa with a total area of 700m2 is constructed on an area of 800m2 in Lavasan.
Month: November 2018
ETC House / Rakta Studio
Located in a residential complex, the ETC hobby house is a 150 m2 building that was built to meet the need of a personal basketball playground for the children of the house owner. The three children have a hobby playing basketball and their friends often gather there to spend their free time.
Nomad House / A D Lab
An intriguing element of the brief for this corner terrace house in Central Singapore became the inspiration for its design. The owners approached architects AD Lab Pte Ltd with a desire to live in the house as nomads, moving the living and sleeping areas from room to room, and having the ability to alter the function and meaning of the spaces over time.
designboom interviews jeanne gang at the 2018 world architecture festival
to learn more about the projects nominated we caught up with the architect, who also discussed her views on the current state of architecture and what a ‘wall-umn’ is.
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designboom interviews jeanne gang at the 2018 world architecture festival
to learn more about the projects nominated we caught up with the architect, who also discussed her views on the current state of architecture and what a ‘wall-umn’ is.
The post designboom interviews jeanne gang at the 2018 world architecture festival a…
TBA’s vet surgery in Montreal includes exposed bricks and concrete
Industrial finishes “resistant to animal wear and tear” are used across this veterinary clinic, which occupies the ground and basement floors of an extended building in Montreal. Thomas Balaban Architect (TBA) completed the renovation and extension of a two-storey photography studio, turning it into a four-storey structure that houses four apartments and the Hôpital Vétérinaire
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Renovation of Beverly Center / Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
Roma-based architectural and urban design firm Studio Fuksas www.fuksas.com, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, was selected as the design architect for the renovation of the 886,000 sq. ft. Beverly Center in Los Angeles, California. Thirty-four months of construction and five hundred million dollars later a reimagined Center was officially unveiled on November 2, 2018. The mall, a monolithic eight-story structure located at the edge of Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, now boasts a new glimmering white skin made of a highly textured stucco surmounting a metal mesh which changes transparency through the day and according to the viewer’s vantage point.
Al Borde turns old property in Ecuador into House of the Flying Beds
Sleeping spaces are suspended from the ceiling, and accessed by wooden steps and a walkway, at this 18th-century home renovated by Ecuadorian firm Al Borde Arquitectos. The House of the Flying Beds is located in La Esperanza, Ecuador, within a deteriorated historic property that Al Borde Arquitectos overhauled for a family. “At first sight the house
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Golfo de Darien House / Cristobal Vial Arquitectos
This work corresponds to the rehabilitation and expansion of a house built in 1970 in the commune of Las Condes, city of Santiago. It is part of a set of 25 one-story houses, designed by the architects Christian de Groote, Victor Gubbins and Hector Mery. All the houses are arranged in such a way that they adjoin each other, allowing a better use of the land, granting each one a garden to the north and another one to the south. The dividing walls, in turn, consolidate an intermediate walled yard.
“Appreciating the role of colour in architecture is a great missed opportunity of the Bauhaus”
It’s a shame that, although colour theory was taught at the Bauhaus, it was considered too feminine for architecture, says Michelle Ogundehin in this Opinion as part of our Bauhaus 100 series. The Bauhaus employed four artists whose theories on the use of colour underpin everything we think of as contemporary colour theory. So why, despite
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