Month: October 2022

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Basement Extension to a Former Artist Studio / VATRAA

October 8, 2022 Bianca Valentina Roșescu 0

The client, a family of three, started the project as a property developer. Halfway through the design, they loved it so much that they decided to make it their own house. While not forgetting the investment factor (maximising the floor space was a must), we dove deep into understanding their personalities. Exploring their interest in spirituality and meditation, we agreed that the house should become their private sanctuary – protective, calm and serene. As a result, the house became an atmospheric journey, from the secluded basement to the vibrant first floor, orchestrated around dichotomies as dark-light, calm-vibrant, warm-cold or intimate-exposed.

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Mika Twin Towers / Alidoost and Partners

October 8, 2022 Hana Abdel 0

Many cities in the world have accommodated twin towers with different functions themselves. Considering the skyline, these twin towers generally have a typical shape, presenting two tall buildings adjacent to each other with some discrepancies in façade design. Moreover, despite the variety in the form and shape of the towers, the common specifications of most of them had been inducing a sense of massive and inhuman scale to a viewer in front of the surrounding urban space. In the Mika Residential Towers Project, the designers try to focus on changing this pattern and creating a new type of twin structure for residential use.

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Roadshow Art Center of Tianfu / TEKTONN ARCHITECTS

October 7, 2022 Collin Chen 0

Located in the heart of TFNA, the Roadshow Centre on the shores of Xinglong Lake serves as a window to the TFNA’s cultural, artistic, and technological innovation heights, and because of its proximity to the lake and its long-range urban iconic character, the design demands more systematic thinking of spaces, morphologies, and relationship to the environment.

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RW-Office / FORM | Kouichi Kimura Architects

October 7, 2022 Bianca Valentina Roșescu 0

The project was for a Shiga-based cloud vendor to move their office. Their new office was planned on the 1st floor of the building that is directly connected with JR Otsu station. The client requested an office which would stimulate communications further between employees who spend most of the time there, and would also deliver innovations.

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Find Sanctuary to launch California glamping site geared toward remote work

October 7, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

A Los Angeles entrepreneur is launching a glamping site in California that aims to attract urban professionals who want to commune with nature. Find Sanctuary was founded last year by entrepreneur Charlie Hammond, who has worked at various startups and is a proponent of getting outdoors to help alleviate mental health issues. Hammond decided to

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Kalrav Villa / VPA Architects

October 7, 2022 Hana Abdel 0

An abode to humans and birds alike; Kalrav house, which translates to the house of chirping birds, is nested within a thicket of previously existing and newly sapped trees. Facing the east, Kalrav (façade) opens up in the form of a ‘flying bird’. Following the position of the house, the intent is the least possible footprint taken up by the house. The form is shaped with glass as a façade supported by exposed concrete and lime plaster to flaunt the minimal, sleek, and earthy design. One is welcomed by the low heightened entrance pavilion into the house which unfolds two elevated seating rooms – private and formal- encompassed by water bodies, thus forming the ambiance of a floating island.

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131 Oliver Street / Krueck Sexton Partners

October 7, 2022 Paula Pintos 0

Three historic 19th-century buildings form the corner of Oliver and Purchase Streets in Boston’s Financial District. Slowly erased over a century of use, there was an opportunity to re-connect the development to its history of place through a new lobby and common space that re-envisioned the underutilized space, forming a stronger connection between the historic buildings and the more contemporary towers, and recall a memory of the original structure.

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Creating Unique Interiors With Bold Color Contrast

October 7, 2022 HD Staff 0

Creatively colorful and oozing with style, these two contemporary home interiors make an eye-catching statement. Our first featured home design is a color-packed adventure of green, blue, yellow, red, and pink accents that crash together in unexpected ways. You’ll find a color-blocked salmon pink kitchen linked with a mint green dining spot, and a multicolored […]