Month: March 2023

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Filipe Pina retains original features in renovation of historic Portuguese building

March 20, 2023 Katie Last 0

Shale walls and slate tiles help pay homage to the history of this 19th-century building in Portugal, which has been transformed into a family home by Portuguese studio Filipe Pina. Located in the centre of Vila Nova de Foz Côa, a city in Portugal’s Guarda district, the home was renovated with the aim of balancing

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“Timber alone cannot get us out of this mess”

March 20, 2023 Philip Oldfield 0

Concrete as well as timber will be required to address the twin challenges of averting climate disaster and building the infrastructure the world needs, writes Philip Oldfield as part of our Timber Revolution series. There is a paradox in our desire for a low-carbon built environment. On the one hand, we know buildings are responsible

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Lend Lease’s mass-timber tower was shipped from Austria to Australia

March 20, 2023 James Parkes 0

As we continue our Timber Revolution series, we look at Australia’s first mass-timber high-rise apartment building named Forté, which was built from cross-laminated timber grown in Austria. Built in 2012, the 10-storey Forté block was the world’s tallest timber residential building – measuring 32 metres tall – when it was completed. The building was made

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Renovation of the Priorat / Atienza Maure Arquitectos

March 20, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

Context. The project consists of the rehabilitation of a Castilian mansion from the s. XVI had burned in a fire in 2011. Only the stone walls, the staircase with a vault, and the voussoirs of the collapsed arches remained. The building had formerly been used as the residence of the prior of the Monastery of Oña.

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Dezeen’s Pinterest roundup features nine saunas in touch with nature

March 20, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

Saunas are trending on Pinterest and Dezeen has featured some of the best, including a floating sauna in Stockholm and a three-storey, outdoor sauna in the USA. Follow Dezeen on Pinterest and read on to discover the projects. Pinners have been attracted to Dezeen’s sauna board. The most popular saunas are inspired by their natural surroundings

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Citizens Design Bureau adds “volcanic colours” to arts and circus space in former church

March 20, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

UK studio Citizens Design Bureau has given a colourful retrofit to Jacksons Lane, an arts and circus centre in an old church in London, with the aim of decluttering and simplifying its interior. The studio aimed to improve the functionality of the grade II-listed building, which used to be a church but has been a

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The Architecture of Countercultures: Utopian Movements in the United States and Berlin, Germany

March 20, 2023 Ankitha Gattupalli 0

The Law of Polarity holds good in relation to human society and cultures as well – everything has an opposite. Countercultures have erupted as condemnations of “the ways of the world”. A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a population during a specific time. As new lifestyles are explored, supporting architecture evolves to satiate the utopian ideals of new societies. Architecture is a product of the culture it is designed for.