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Madeleine Architects converts pigsty into The Recipe house in Switzerland

May 27, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Swiss architecture studio Madeleine Architectes has converted an old pigsty and clad it in lime and hemp to create the base of this house and office in Chavronay. Named The Recipe, the home sits between a farm and a henhouse on a rural site close to the French border and is designed as a place

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Eight concrete kitchens with raw and tactile surfaces

May 27, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Kitchens with exposed concrete surfaces take centre stage in this lookbook, which includes homes in Mexico, Japan and Ireland. Concrete is a ubiquitous material in architecture, but it is less commonly used in interiors – particularly in residential spaces such as kitchens. However, its durability and impermeability make it an ideal surface material for cooking

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Forschungsbau – ECAP Laboratory Building (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) / ARGE dichter + Glass Kramer Löbbert

May 27, 2023 Hadir Al Koshta 0

The detection and analysis of high-energy astro particles and their distant sources set the scientific and technical goal for a new research center at Erlangen University Campus. The Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics is set up to develop and contribute key soft and hard components for a range of massive international detection programs such as CTA/HESS, IceCube or KM3Net. The building‘s design has been developed following a successful competition entry in 2017.

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Super 18 Apartment / Hyper + Simon Henry

May 27, 2023 Hadir Al Koshta 0

The project concerns the transformation of a 45m2 apartment on the 12th floor of the Boucry Tower (named Super 18 at its delivery), a discreet icon of north-eastern Paris. Built by Jean-Robert Delb in 1974 on the edge of the Plaine Saint-Denis, it is almost invisible in the Parisian skyline and can only be seen from the main infrastructural axes. A true reduction of the metropolis by the diversity of the households it contains and its programmatic diversity is an example of the successful integration of high-rise buildings into the city.

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This week we revealed London’s best new home renovation

May 27, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen, the annual Don’t Move Improve! competition named Nic Howett Architects’ The Secret Garden Flat as London’s best new home improvement project for 2023. The flat, which is located in the borough of Southwark, was praised by the judges for showing “how a very high standard of craftsmanship can be achieved with a low

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