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Estación Building / Ortuzar Gebauer Arquitectos

October 3, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

Castro city, capital, and administrative city of Chiloé island, in its urban growth, produced mainly by the aquaculture and tourism industries, today it demands housing in the city, which are currently located and developed in the periphery.

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Trolle Rudebeck Haar floats prefabricated sauna on Lake Geneva

October 3, 2021 James Parkes 0
People diving off the deck of the sauna

Lausanne University of Art and Design graduate Trolle Rudebeck Haar has built a pre-fabricated floating sauna, which offers views over the Alps, using local wood. Löyly is a 2.2-square-metre floating wooden sauna and was Haar’s graduate Diploma Project at Lausanne University of Art and Design (ÉCAL) in Switzerland. “After living in Finland for a while and

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YODEZEEN inserts atmospheric Japanese restaurant in former Kyiv Arsenal building

October 3, 2021 Ali Morris 0
Brick walls at Virgin Izakaya Bar were left raw

Restrooms housed within a red metal mesh structure and a central open kitchen feature in this Japanese restaurant in Kyiv by local architecture and design firm YODEZEEN. Located in an 18th-century brick building with art nouveau elements, the Virgin Izakaya Bar is in a central area of the Ukrainian city that was previously dedicated to

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Mirror Field Installation / Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center

October 3, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

The installation was designed within the framework of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial development, which aims to rebuild the memories of the tragic events that happened in the area on September 29-30, 1941, the largest massacre of the Nazi regime. During those days, over 30.000 Jews were murdered by the German forces, while almost no documentation was left behind. The Babyn Yar Foundation works to bring that memory back and highlight the importance of every victim’s life.

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The Case for Building More Mid-Sized Housing in our Cities

October 3, 2021 Kaley Overstreet 0

Planning cities and the way that we comfortably live in them is often a pull between many things. From creating affordable housing for all, enhancing community facilities and amenities, and designing walkable neighborhoods, all aspects of urban design have trade-offs, or do they? While there are many reasons why cities are becoming increasingly more expensive, dense, and less pedestrian-friendly, one of the key drivers behind the increase in unaffordability has to do with the way that outdated zoning codes drive the lack of available housing that they regulate.

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Haldenstrasse Daycare / se\arch architekten

October 3, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

The 6-group “Kita Haldenstraße” is located in a grown residential area in Schorndorf, Germany, at the interface to a park-like area. The property is characterized by impressive tree population. The cubature of the daycare center has been kept very compact in order to allow for a continuous play area in the west of the property and to include the vegetation as an identity-forming factor.

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EBBA Architects builds Construction Skills School using only reusable components

October 3, 2021 Amy Frearson 0
Wooden screens on Construction Skills School by EBBA Architects

EBBA Architects has used hundreds of pieces of timber to give identity to a set of repurposed cabins, creating a temporary education centre that can be easily recycled in the future. Located on London’s Olympic Park, the Construction Skills School will occupy its site for a minimum of five years, providing building skills training to local

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