Month: October 2023

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Heryco blends “history and modernity” in renovation of pink apartment block

October 4, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Heryco has completed a renovation of a pink apartment building with arches influenced by the form of aqueducts in the city of Querétaro, México. The 5,920-square foot (550-square metre) building was completed in 1994 two blocks from the city’s iconic Querétaro Aqueduct. Heryco converted the previous building into a restored apartment block that

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The Tranquil Charms of a Light Gray and Wood Living Environment

October 4, 2023 HD Staff 0

Few combinations evoke a sense of serene elegance as effortlessly as the marriage of light gray and wood decor. The interplay resonates with an aesthetic symphony of calm sophistication and modernity. In this article, we’ll explore a crisp white, gray, and wood interior concept in Minsk, Belarus, designed by Studio VAE. The 143-square-meter family home […]

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Fit Apartment / CoDA

October 4, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

The Fit Apartment deviates from the standard of many residential projects already carried out by the office, with a completely integrated character: Except for the bathroom, all walls have been eliminated, creating a continuous circulation through the social area, kitchen, office, and master bedroom. The proposal came from the owners’ desire to create a sensation of more spaciousness in the 60m2 apartment. 

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Queen’s Business School / TODD Architects

October 4, 2023 Hadir Al Koshta 0

Queen’s University’s new Business School building sits within its Riddel Hall campus, in south Belfast in front of the Grade II listed Riddel Hall building and enclosed by mature woodland. In 2017, due to its continued growth, the School identified a need to expand its facilities. Its vision was for a state-of-the-art facility that would both respond to the changing educational needs of its rapidly growing post-graduate community and be a transitional link between education and employment. In addition, the School was keen to explore how the “in-between” spaces linking teaching and learning accommodation could be more than just circulation corridors, encouraging thinking on the introduction of informal study and break-out areas.

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Kennedy Nolan covers L-shaped coastal home in charred timber

October 4, 2023 Katie Last 0

Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. Set in a small town named Somers on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the home was designed to offer a place of retreat for the client’s family and features earthy colours

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MVRDV transforms Shenzhen skyscraper into colourful women and children’s centre

October 4, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has added a colourful gridded facade to a skyscraper in Shenzhen, to create a hotel and centre dedicated to the welfare of women and children. Aiming to set an example of adaptive reuse in the city, the Shenzhen Women and Children’s Centre contains a library, auditorium, children’s theatre, therapy rooms and staff

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