Kyle House is a remote Scottish holiday home with a “monastically simple” interior

November 29, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio GRAS has transformed a derelict cottage in the Scottish Highlands into a pared-back contemporary holiday home by slotting a series of oak-lined “boxes” inside the existing stone structure. The Edinburgh-based firm, headed by architect Gunnar Groves-Raines, oversaw the renovation of Kyle House for preservation and hospitality organisation Wildland, which has restored several historic

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Box House / Flavio Castro

November 29, 2018 Daniel Tapia 0

The Box house, located in a residential neighborhood of low verticalization in the city of São Paulo, was designed for a young architect, to himself. The size of the ground (20 x 10m) corner, directed the implementation where all the openings are located in two of the four facades. Zenith openings and the inner patio illuminate the environments that are located on the other two facades.

Fumitaka Suzuki designs a cheese tart shop made from gleaming metal

November 29, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Designed to evoke the heat and scent of the freshly baked cheese tarts that it sells, this store in Japan, which just won Retail Interior of the Year at Dezeen Awards, is made from warm-toned galvanised metal. The Bake Cheese Tart Abeno Harukas Shop, designed by Fumitaka Suzuki of Yagyug Douguten, is housed in the lively

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Future Towers / MVRDV

November 29, 2018 María Francisca González 0

Located in Pune, India’s 8th largest city and one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, Future Towers provides 1,068 apartments for a diverse section of the rapidly expanding population, a true vertical village that will house around 5,000 people in one building.

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Tips For Drawing Trees in Architectural Renderings

November 29, 2018 Eduardo Souza 0

We all have that childhood memory of drawing a little house with a door and a window, a gabled roof, and a tree. But what sets architects apart from the rest of the population is that we continue to draw this after childhood, usually with a bit more technique. And just as our residential designs were becoming more complex and complete, the design of our trees needed to improve a bit as well (that broccoli-like shape would not please customers and teachers alike.) Although generally, trees are not the main focus of drawings, they play an important role in the composition of sketches, mainly to represent the scale, intended shading, or some intention of landscaping.

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Cercal House / Atelier Data

November 29, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

TIME, SPACE AND PLACE
In Cercal  House time and space are not separate dimensions but rather interdependent. There is the time that corresponds to the cycles of nature, the time of who inhabits the place and there is the space that is shaped and influenced by it.