Month: May 2019

Ingenhoven Architects is wrapping five miles of hedges around an office in Düsseldorf

May 21, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf by Ingenhoven Architects

Ingenhoven Architects is building the Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf, which will have facades covered with five miles-worth of hornbeam hedges. Located on the Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz, alongside the heritage-listed Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus theatre, the five-storey office block topped out earlier this month. When it is completed next year, the two main facades of the trapeze-shaped building

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fala atelier renovates 19th-century house in porto with geometric surfaces

May 21, 2019 macnadusa 0

fala atelier has renovated a lofty 19th century house in porto, establishing a sense of order on both its exterior and interior through a minimal palette punctuated by the studio’s trademark geometric forms and patterns. located in a narrow alley in front of a cemetery, the residence combines three distinct elevations: an austere front façade […]

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Sans-Arc Studio’s Plaster Fun House takes cues from cruise liners

May 21, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Plaster Fun House by Sans-Arc Studio

Sans-Arc Studio has added a playful kitchen extension to a cottage in Torrensville, Australia, which is characterised by white-plaster walls, arches and terrazzo. Named the Plaster Fun House, the home is intended to be a fun, light and compact space that contrasts with the city’s commonplace brown-brick houses. Australian practice Sans-Arc Studio achieved this by taking cues

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Bed & Breakfast Santulan / Santos Bolívar

May 21, 2019 Clara Ott 0

Santulan is balance in hindi, which was the concept used for the development of the project that seeks to be inclusive, not only being a tourist destination, but also being an example of a permanent culture of respect and balance with the ecosystem from its inhabitant to the building.

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The Roc Rail Operations Centre / Smart Design Studio

May 21, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

The new Rail Operations Centre for Sydney Trains was designed by Jacobs in association with Smart Design Studio.  The concept for the building was born from a very specific brief, which called for a vast top-lit, solid-walled control room atop several floors of open commercial workspace. This presented an opportunity to create a unique building that positively contributed to the new urban fabric of the Green Square city center, expressing its function as a piece of railway infrastructure.

Moving terrace follows the sun at Robert Konieczny’s Quadrant House

May 21, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Moving terrace connects with living spaces at Robert Konieczny's Quadrant House

This house in Poland by architect Robert Konieczny has an moving outdoor living space that pivots and docks with rooms on either side of the garden. Konieczny’s studio KWK Promes designed Quadrant House to feature a piece of kinetic architecture that tracks the sun’s movement. The Katowice-based office drew on experience from their previous projects,

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Cortina House Interiors / Outlinestudio74

May 21, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

Only in places like this where nature and its elements surround us, this restructuring takes shape that reinterprets the material of the recovered wood of the old barns with over a century of history, the local dolomitic stone, the Unesco heritage and the resulting iron.