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Enigma Apartments / NBJ Architectes

July 23, 2022 Luciana Pejić 0

The existing built environment consists mainly of dwellings and agricultural greenhouses. To the north, across the Avenue de Maguelone, are three large agricultural greenhouses. To the southeast of the site, there is a recently built housing complex. It is made up of adjoining individual houses (R+1 level) as well as new apartment buildings with a contemporary look. To the northeast, there are three suburban houses.

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EKAR combines home in Thailand with hotel and activity spaces for dogs

July 23, 2022 Jon Astbury 0
EKAR's Dog/Human House in Thailand

Dogs and humans live side-by-side in specially designed spaces at this home and dog hotel in Thailand, completed by local practice EKAR Architects. Combining a dwelling for its dog-loving client with a care centre, salon and hotel for pups, the Bangkok-based firm designed Dog/Human House using subtle changes in scale to create spaces that are

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Ten contemporary living rooms with cool stone surfaces

July 23, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Budge Over Dover house in Sydney designed by YSG

Rough-hewn granite and smooth marble are among the materials chosen for the living rooms in this lookbook, which use stone to create elegant interiors. While stone surfaces can help rooms feel cooler during hot summer days, they also create a warm, organic atmosphere in modern interiors – especially when contrasted against glass surfaces and other

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Natural Cemetery ‘de Utrecht’ Reception Pavilions / architecten|en|en

The Natural Step. ‘De Utrecht’ is a natural cemetery that is part of the ‘De Utrecht’ estate located just below Hilvarenbeek. It is an initiative of director Joyce Sengers. She is a landscape architect and discovered the phenomenon of natural burial in England over fifteen years ago. This appealed to her so much that, after working at British natural cemeteries, she also wanted to make this way of burial possible in the Netherlands. Burial in nature connects to the natural cycle of life. Anyone who is buried in a natural cemetery expresses this solidarity and contributes to the natural cycle of recycling.

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Moving Cubes House / arches

July 23, 2022 Luciana Pejić 0

What is the most important while building a house in a small area? The search for a solution has come to the following goals this time: one floor, functionality, aesthetics – its integrity, humane scale, contextuality, a combination of internal and external spaces, compatibility between openness and privacy, physical and emotional comfort, spatial and volumetric alterations (dynamics).

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This week the Stirling Prize shortlist was revealed

July 23, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0
Exterior of Sands End Arts and Community Centre by Mae Architects

This week on Dezeen, RIBA revealed the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize, which was dominated by projects in London. Of the six projects on the shortlist for this year’s prize, which includes buildings by Niall McLaughlin Architects, Hopkins Architects and Henley Halebrown, four are located in London with the other two in Cambridge and Falkirk, Scotland. The list includes a school, a

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