Month: September 2024

Weald House by Mailen Design and Peter Bradford Architects is a four-bedroom, new-build house nestled into a verdant plot in Kent, United Kingdom. The two practices have collaborated to create a single-story home which adopts the local vernacular architecture to celebrate surrounding meadows and luxuriant foliage beyond. Long-standing Islington residents, clients Saro Castagna and Alexis Campbell, purchased the plot of land to build a family home. With four adult children and a large extended family, they wanted to move from their London townhouse to a home with sufficient space to host large groups together. The plot was sold with planning permission and an existing scheme that the clients’ felt was alien to the rural landscape; a multi-level, ostentatious design that disregarded its natural context and failed to take full advantage of the beautiful meadows and woodland beyond. Saro and Alexis had a clear idea of what they wanted; a low-lying build that respected the surrounding landscape.

the house embodies the concept of ‘tranquil modernism’ through its linear geometry and minimalist design, with nature-integrated spaces.
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When it came to redoing this 1978 kitchen outside Minneapolis, interior designer Colleen Slack’s careful approach helped her find the exact style her clients wanted. She says the goal was warm modern but not specifically midcentury modern. The details…

From provisional tent to permanent concert club: the new Kuppel Basel is an impressive venue for the music scene. Basel-based Vécsey Schmidt Architekt:innen built a permanent concert venue for the city’s pop music scene – right in the middle of an idyllic park on the edge of the city center. The shape of the Kuppel Basel refers to a temporary dome tent from 1988 that stood on the same location, and which was known far and wide for the concerts that were held there. The new, permanent institution will help to promote upcoming bands and provide a venue for concerts and parties. An unconventional piece of architecture, that is focussed entirely on its interior and at the same time – together with a neighboring extension building – solves urban planning questions. Club scene concerts are often held in dark basements or abandoned industrial estates, where they don’t bother anybody. Not so in Basel: here pop culture has now acquired a jewel, located right in the middle of a park between the zoo and the city center. Any passer-by who does not know about the function of the solitary octagonal building with its unusual vaulted structure might mistake it for some sort of pavilion – if it weren’t so hermetically sealed. Thanks to sophisticated soundproofing measures, the beats inside can be cranked up, while on the outside people going for a stroll or neighbors sleeping with open windows remain undisturbed.

the series emerges from spontaneous wanderings through empty streets, where the night subtly transforms the architectural forms.
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As a landmark of contemporary religious architecture in Portugal, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus stands in contrast to traditional models, representing a work free from historicist stigmas. Resulting from a design competition organized in 1960, the church is notable for its civic dimension, urban role, and its anti-monumental and social significance. Integrated into the regular grid of the Avenidas Novas neighborhood, this example of the Movement for the Renewal of Sacred Art is part of a larger parish complex that often goes unnoticed by passersby. Its external street creates an unexpected public space, inviting people to enter and engage in a courtyard where architecture and the city merge. Finely crafted in terms of spatiality, detail, and light, the church holds many surprises for those who venture inside.