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WR House / Sharon Weiser Architecture

August 3, 2021 Hana Abdel 0

This is a story about a home and the family that lives in it. It’s a story about eucalyptus that was planted here 50 years ago. A story about lightning and industrial structure and a desire to give the sense that the home was always present on the field. On a 400 sqm plot, a 320 sqm house was designed, 3 floors high. The house is built in an industrialized style that combines colored metal plates in black, which highlights the desire to create a temporary presence structure that respects the natural environment and the urban fabric.

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Kengo Kuma designs sculptural metal-mesh curtain for Gaudí’s Casa Battló

August 3, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A stairwell inside Casa Battló

Kengo Kuma and Associates has used 164,000 metres of aluminium chains to create this curtain that references the organic forms found inside Barcelona’s renovated Casa Battló. The intervention by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma’s studio is part of an extensive renovation of the house designed by the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí in 1904. Casa Battló

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Now You Know book aims to challenge racial inequality in architecture

August 3, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Now You Know

Architecture discussion platform Sound Advice has gathered essays and interviews from 60 architects and urbanists of colour in a book to highlight racial inequality in architecture. Sound Advice founders Joseph Henry and Pooja Agrawal assembled the book, titled Now You Know, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the #BlackoutTuesday. The duo created

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