Month: June 2024

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CLOU Architects stacks blocks to form kindergarten in China

June 30, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Playful openings and colourful windows brighten the pixelated exterior of West Coast Kindergarten, completed by Chinese studio CLOU Architects near Hangzhou. To maximise space on a small plot, CLOU Architects organised the 4,900-square-metre kindergarten across a series of stacked white volumes, intended to resemble children’s building blocks. This arrangement also gives rise to a pixelated form

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5 Home Design Trends Emerging Now (one photo)

June 30, 2024 Mitchell Parker 0

To get an idea of what homeowners want in their spaces right now, just look at what they’re searching for online. We analyzed search terms on Houzz from January through March 2024 and compared them with searches from the same period last year to get a…

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Eight gallery-like living rooms with sculptural furniture pieces

June 30, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected living rooms that feature sculptural furniture in homes from São Paulo to London. An undulating sofa, a lamp made from towering columns and a wiggly chair are among the sculptural furniture pieces in this lookbook, which showcases how they can be used to add more interest to living rooms.

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Nami Play Pavilion / Nami ñami studio

June 30, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

Children from Prague now have one more reason to play outside: among the apartment blocks stands the circular Nami Play Pavilion – an experimental playground full of free elements. Created as one of the installations for the Prague Landscape Festival, its goal is not only to expand play options for local residents but also to spark discussion about the current state of children’s play in the city. ‘Today’s playgrounds are standardized and composed just of colorful, fixed equipment on a rubber surface. We have nothing against swings, but we believe children deserve a bit more, both functionally and aesthetically,’ says Eduard Herrmann, one of the duo behind Nami ñami studio, the creators of the project.

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Dezeen In Depth examines the ethical issues for architects working on Neom

June 30, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter considers the ethical dilemmas confronting architects involved with Neom and features an interview with the architecture firm designing America’s tallest skyscraper. Architecture studios involved in Saudi Arabia’s Neom giga-project remain silent on human rights concerns despite increasing pressure from campaigners, reports Dezeen editor Tom Ravenscroft. The newsletter also features

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Three Mile Harbor House / Bates Masi + Architects

June 30, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

Scenic shorelines tend to be subdivided finely, maximizing water access to the greatest number of inhabitants. The lots in this neighborhood take that principle to an extreme with small slivers of land ten times deeper than their width. Given that new construction must retreat from the shoreline, this leads to houses stacked closely side-by-side along a common setback line, each reaching for optimal views. These factors create challenges for privacy, daylight access, and air circulation. Accordingly, zoning laws prohibit each structure’s height from exceeding its horizontal distance to the property line, further narrowing the building envelope. In this context a builder and mariner sought to create a home with the efficiency of the boat he once lived on, creatively adapted to address the site’s challenges.

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Ten Adam Štěch photographs of “one-of-a-kind” architecture and interior designs

June 30, 2024 Max Fraser 0

Architecture historian Adam Štěch highlights ten images from his recent exhibition Elements: Unique Details of the 20th Century Architecture and Interior and explains the stories behind them. The exhibition brought together an edited selection of nearly 3,000 photographs from Štěch’s archive of buildings and interiors and their bespoke details. Elements: Unique Details of the 20th

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Montreal West Station’s Pavilion / Sid Lee Architecture

June 30, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

Combining architectural finesse with the neighborhood’s heritage building typology, the new train station pavilion, designed by Sid Lee Architecture, acts as a beacon at the heart of the Côte-des-Neiges – Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood, for the well-being of its surrounding community. The station’s new iteration is part of a transformation project that aims at upgrading exo’s entire transit network to improve the uniformity of its services. The new building serves as a crucial hub on one of the busiest lines of the transit system. At its origin, the project aimed to update the station to meet exo’s new safety and accessibility objectives. Thus, the new pavilion embodies an innovative approach that seeks to transcend the simple function of an access point to become a distinct symbol within the community’s landscape.