Month: June 2024

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MOFA Studios creates wave-like forms for Indian water sports centre

June 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

The “dynamic nature of the sea” prompted the flowing, scaly forms of The National Institute of Water Sports in India, completed by architecture practice MOFA Studios. Located on a coastal site in Panaji, Goa, the 15,000-square-metre centre provides facilities for the institute, which holds courses in water sports and tourism management. It is formed of

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Eight neutral-hued homes patterned with intricate herringbone flooring

June 29, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

From a 1970s apartment renovation in Lisbon to a converted shop in Montreal, our latest lookbook collects eight residential interiors characterised by decorative herringbone parquet flooring. The herringbone pattern is made of rectangles or parallelograms, arranged to resemble the bones of a herring. It is often used for wallpaper, textiles and floors. Herringbone is a

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Exeter College Cohen Quad / Alison Brooks Architects

June 29, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

This project is a 21st-century reinvention of the ‘collegiate quadrangle’, the basis of Oxford’s academic and urban fabric. The Oxford quadrangle is an 800-year-old pedagogical model that combines student rooms with teaching spaces, organised around landscaped courtyards. Every Oxford College is a variation of this typology. Alison Brooks Architects’ new 6,000 m² Cohen Quad will expand Exeter College’s 700-year-old campus in the heart of Oxford, with undergraduate and graduate living accommodation for 90 students, auditorium, seminar rooms, social learning spaces (The Learning Commons), special collections archive, café, roof terrace, offices and fellows’ accommodation.

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The Crescent House / DROO Architects

June 29, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

The main aim of the design was to maximize the usage of the tight side of the plot. We created a unique space responding to this premise by orienting the kitchen to the light and creating a little nook for extra storage and the owner’s library of books, spices, plants, herbs, and the rest.

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This week we asked if its time for architecture studios to walk away from Neom

June 29, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

This week on Dezeen, we investigated how architecture studios working on the Neom mega project are maintaining their silence over human rights concerns. Dezeen’s editor Tom Ravenscroft spoke to human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and ALQST, which said that architecture studios “can’t ignore” abuses connected to Neom anymore and must “urgently reflect” on their

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Stonewall monument is “first LGBTQIA+ visitor centre in National Parks Service”

June 28, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

EDG Architecture + Engineering and Nate Berkus were among the team that restored a historic building for the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center in New York City. The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center (SNMVC) occupies 2,100 square feet (195 square metres) in part of the historic Stonewall Inn, a location noteworthy for protests and riots

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