Overcast House / Office S&M
Overcast House is a single-storey rear extension to a Victorian house in north London, creating a flexible ground floor space that accommodates working-from-home while reconfiguring the house to make it a home for life.
Month: April 2021
Dominique Perrault Architecture Wins Competition for Shenzhen’s Institute of Design and Innovation
Dominique Perrault Architecture, together with Chinese studio Zhubo Design Co, has won the international competition for the new campus of Shenzen’s Institute of Design and Innovation. Stretching along a mountain range, the large-scale horizontal structure preserves the views towards the landscape, while creating a strong relationship between the learning spaces and the environment.
Architecture in the United States Designed by Latin American Architects
Globalization and its pension for both virtual and physical connectivity has led to the linking of the world’s economies, territories, and cultures and nowhere is this more evident than in the field of architecture.
The Contemporary Transformation of Traditional Chinese Architecture
The American architect, designer, and futurist Buckminster Fuller once defined the Dymaxion principle as “constructing ever more with ever less weight, time, and ergs per each given level of functional performance.”
The Precarious State of the Mom-and-Pop Store
This article was originally published on Common Edge.
Churchtown House Extension / Scullion Architects
On this extension to a 1930s semi-detached house in the suburbs of Dublin, our clients were interested in forming a new room that was a continuation of the gentle formality of the main house; rather than extend with a scaleless, rootless annex. The existing kitchen was positioned, as was typical of the time, in a utilitarian dark north-west corner of the original house, with windows onto a dark side passageway set a metre above the garden.
Churchtown House Extension / Scullion Architects
On this extension to a 1930s semi-detached house in the suburbs of Dublin, our clients were interested in forming a new room that was a continuation of the gentle formality of the main house; rather than extend with a scaleless, rootless annex. The existing kitchen was positioned, as was typical of the time, in a utilitarian dark north-west corner of the original house, with windows onto a dark side passageway set a metre above the garden.
ibex museum st. leonhard echoes historic timber farmhouses with red concrete
the museum tells the story of the extermination and reintroduction of the ibex, a regional species of wild goats.
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Harlem Artist Studio / SO-IL
Our design for artist Ghada Amer’s studio sits on the ruins of a burned-down church on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in West Harlem. Our intervention involved the adaptation and transformation of the existing structure into a home, art studio, gallery, and social gathering space for Amer and her partner.
Harlem Artist Studio / SO-IL
Our design for artist Ghada Amer’s studio sits on the ruins of a burned-down church on Frederick Douglass Boulevard in West Harlem. Our intervention involved the adaptation and transformation of the existing structure into a home, art studio, gallery, and social gathering space for Amer and her partner.