Month: April 2020

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AADYAM House / Gaurav Roy Choudhury Architects GRCA

April 20, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

The plinth was already in place with the columns raised till the lintel level when we visited the first time. The site, located in a central Bangalore locality measured 40 feet in the west towards the Road, and was 60 feet in depth. The previous design did not meet the Client’s requirement, and we were invited to step in. The Client, a young couple, needed their house to do two things; be dynamic, energetic and hybrid to suit their lifestyles, whilst remaining comfortable, familiar and traditional for the husband’s elderly parents living with them. These two separate and disparate ideas needed to merge ensuring a spatial integrity as a home.

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Outhouse / MISA ARCHITECTS

April 20, 2020 Daniel Tapia 0

Outhouse: a visible invisible extension of nature
Seated amidst agricultural farmland, this weekend house brings harmony between the natural and the built environment.

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Multi-Functional Furniture Makes This Small Apartment A Livable Space

April 20, 2020 Erin 0

Intervention Architecture has designed the interior of a small apartment in London that includes an important piece of multi-functional furniture. The apartment, designed for a dancer, uses a changeable joinery solution to create multiple different uses. The blue upholstered felt cushions from the bench seating can be removed, and a bed folds down from the […]

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Colourful tiles and Mexican craft feature in Casa Hoyos hotel by AG Studio

April 20, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
Casa Hoyos by A-G Studio

Mexico City’s AG Studio has turned a colonial house in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico into a boutique hotel featuring tiled archways and yellow walls that look like a “large corn cob”. The hotel, called Casa Hoyos, occupies a former Spanish colonial manor in the city, which is home to many colourful baroque-style buildings from

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Shirasu, Sakurajima EcoHouse / ASEI ARCHITECTS

April 20, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

Modern architecture has three established branches: design, structure and equipment. In recent years where environmental consideration has become a prerequisite in designing new buildings, an increased number of efforts to review regional characteristics are being put into design and equipment. However, such efforts have not yet reached the branch of structure, and buildings are usually designed based on common reason when structure was environmental architecture in and of itself before Modernism—a branch principally based on regional characteristics.