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Kamikasa House / ALTS DESIGN OFFICE

August 4, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

A House That Found a Guide in Traditional Japanese-Style Architecture
This house was designed as a new home for a couple with a child. Located in a town away from the urban core,  the couple purchased this 300㎡ piece of land that is surrounded by traditional Japanse-style houses.

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Jingshan School Library Renovation / Hui-Yin Design & Research

August 4, 2019 舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang 0

The library located inside the main building of theschool, formerly served the high school students without natural ventilation and lighting. The main entrance was compressed to 2 meters in height due to the floor settlement above,thus it barely drew any attention. The library still remained with its original 3 level layout from90’s: Over-crammed bookcases, poor lighting and service, lack of reading area. Such dated conditions distanced many precious books from public exposure.

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Product Of The Week: A Retro-Cute Mechanical Keyboard

August 4, 2019 HD Staff 0

Keyboards offer a unique way to personalize your workspace. If you have a thing for retro flair, check out this cute package from Lofree. Get it on Amazon. Recommended Reading:  30 Cool Computer Keyboards To Help You Match Your Workspace To Your Decor

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Olson Kundig creates wooden home on Washington archipelago for art collector

August 4, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
False Bay House by Olson Kundig and Geremia Design Project

Seattle architecture firm Olson Kundig included pivoting doors and sliding shutters in this waterfront home in the Pacific Northwest, designed for a resident with a large art collection. False Bay House is nestled in a quiet bay in the San Juan Islands, an archipelago of Washington state that is near to Victoria city in British

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Maranello Library / Andrea Maffei Architects

August 4, 2019 Jonathan Alarcón 0

The competition place is located in Vittorio Veneto street in Maranello (Modena), inside a well- established residential fabric. The building borders with a residential court on the north, with a public green area on the west, with a residential building on the south built in adherence and with other residential buildings on the East and partially in adherence. The project we propose presents a surface equal to 1175 mq. It is the existing building renovation trough the existing north perimeter walls maintenance, east and south confining with some residential offices, the demolition of the central part of the prefabricated and the construction of a library as a volume contained within the old building’s height limits and devoloped partly outside the earth and partly under the earth. The access to the new library is situated on the west side.

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House in Kashiwa / Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop

August 4, 2019 Cristian Aguilar 0

A “container” that changes as you design and live in it, and design it, on top of the challenge of living in such a house must continue to give you the pleasure of living there. Clothes, kitchen goods and other things related to their hobbies can be freely placed, and their living space can be filled with things that promote enjoyment and happiness in their lives.

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Omar Gandhi brightens Lady Marmalade eatery in Toronto with skylights and baltic wood

August 4, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Lady Marmalade restaurant by Omar Gandhi and SvN

Canadian firms Omar Gandhi Architect and SvN have used baltic wood, skylights and plants to update a popular brunch spot in Toronto. Omar Gandhi, which has studios in Halifax and Toronto, and local firm SvN designed the renovation for the restaurant Lady Marmalade. The aim was to open up and brighten the space on the city’s

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DaB House / BAM! arquitectura

August 4, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

The DaB House is conceived in a lot of limited dimensions on the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires, in a green and open environment. The main challenge of the project was to generate an architectural tour that interacts with the materials and the light in contrast with the formal search of a very compact layout to optimize the square meters.

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rhizome reinvents the modern villa in living room pavilion in russia

August 4, 2019 macnadusa 0

the living room pavilion, or ‘tochka na karte’ (russian for ‘a point on the map’), is a harshly orthogonal volume which stands in stark contrast to the soft organic shapes landscape of russia. the hospitality project, designed by russian firm, rhizome, emphasizes the opposition between the natural and the human-made. at the same time the […]

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