Month: November 2022

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Paved courtyard hidden by “muted facade” of LR House in Spain 

November 2, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

An austere exterior conceals a series of living spaces around a central, square courtyard at this home in the Spanish town of Citruénigo, designed by local studio Lecumberri & Cidoncha and architect Ińigo Beguiristain. Occupying a plot surrounded by low-rise homes, LR House was designed in response to a simple brief for a one-bed, single-storey

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“Thor’s Hammer flattens another 13-storey parking ramp,” says commenter

November 2, 2022 Rebecca Grove 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing North Carolina architecture studio Duda Paine’s 405 Colorado office building in Austin and other top architecture and design stories. The architecture studio was commissioned to create a parking structure, but realised that the space could be better utilised with an office element on top and was given

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RIBA names Valerie Vaughan-Dick as new CEO

November 2, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

The Royal Institute for British Architects has appointed Valerie Vaughan-Dick as its new CEO from January 2023. Vaughan-Dick, who is currently the chief operating officer at the Royal College of General Practitioners, will take forward the Royal Institute for British Architects (RIBA’s) Biennial Action Plan 2022-23. “I am delighted to be joining RIBA at such

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Rusty Corrugated Steel Covers The Exterior Of This Home On The Edge Of A Forested Hillside

November 2, 2022 Erin 0

Canadian firm MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects has designed a home that’s perched on a granite hilltop looking out on Nova Scotia’s Atlantic coast. Corrugated steel, which has weathered over time, wraps around the structural metal frame, complimenting the ever-evolving nature that surrounds the house. Black window and door frames featured throughout the house contrast the weathered […]

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“All those complicit in Neom’s design and construction are already destroyers of worlds”

November 2, 2022 Adam Greenfield 0

Architects working on the Neom mega-project in Saudi Arabia, including the 170-kilometre city The Line, must decide whether they are content to be complicit in an “ecological and moral atrocity”, writes Adam Greenfield. In April 1954, J Robert Oppenheimer – the physicist regarded as “the father of the atomic bomb”, and a crucial participant in

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Zvonica House / gmb.

November 2, 2022 Bianca Valentina Roșescu 0

Zvonica House is a reconstruction of a typical Slovak square-shaped house from the 1950s. Over the years, the original house has gradually undergone several renovations, including some non-conceptual extensions. The aim of the current intervention was to clean up the interior space, find new spatial and functional links and create an environment that would respond to the needs of the eclectic life of a young multi-member family. The exterior of the house was practically unchanged at the request of the investor, the proposal focuses mainly on the solution of the interior spaces.

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Sik Mul Sung is a Mars-themed cafe with its own vertical farm

November 2, 2022 Ali Morris 0

South Korean studio Unseenbird has designed a cafe in downtown Seoul, where vegetables are grown in a glass-fronted cultivation room before being harvested, prepared and served to customers on a conveyor belt. Sik Mul Sung cafe was set up by agri-tech start-up N.Thing, which also runs a vertical farm on the outskirts of Seoul, to

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