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Javier de las Heras Solé wraps Spanish music school in perforated metal skin

May 29, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
The school has a glass and steel exterior

Architect Javier de las Heras Solé has completed a music school building in the northern Spanish town of Amorebieta-Etxano, featuring a concrete podium and facades clad in weathering-steel mesh that allows partial views of the interior. Javier de las Heras Solé won a competition to design the Zubiaur Musika Eskola, which adjoins the Basque town’s

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Paulo Merlini Architects perches gabled volumes on top of stone plinth at Casa Rio

May 23, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
Gabled volumes form Casa Rio by Paulo Merlini

Local architect Paulo Merlini has completed a house in the Portuguese city of Gondomar featuring three gabled volumes and a roof garden set on top of a ground-floor structure formed of thick stone walls. Casa Rio was designed by Paulo Merlini’s studio for a site previously occupied by a farmhouse in the city to the east

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OYO Architects positions spiral staircase at the heart of brick and concrete House Dede

May 22, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A wooden spiral staircase winds through the home

OYO Architects has completed a house on the site of an old barn in Drongen, Belgium, featuring a cross-shaped plan with a spiral staircase at its centre. Local studio OYO Architects was approached to design a family home for a rural plot in Drongen, which is a district within the city of Ghent. House Dede

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Studio Ben Allen casts pigmented concrete to create colourful surfaces inside House Recast

May 17, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
House Recast by Studio Ben Allen has colourful walls

Studio Ben Allen used brightly coloured concrete to create structural walls and decorative details throughout this refurbishment of a Victorian terraced home in north London. The owners of the house in Haringey asked Studio Ben Allen to reorganise the living spaces at the rear of the property, which had been adapted and added to over

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Rede Architects and Moguang Studio turn abandoned factory into youth activity centre

May 16, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A red steel ramp

Ramps, slides and platforms made of colourful mesh feature at this youth centre near Beijing, which Rede Architects and Moguang Studio have built within a derelict garment factory. The industrial site in Beizhuang Town, Miyun District, comprised a dozen disused buildings arranged around two courtyards and surrounded by factories and mountains. Rede Architects and Moguang

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Rede Architects and Moguang Studio turn abandoned factory into youth activity centre

May 16, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A red steel ramp

Ramps, slides and platforms made of colourful mesh feature at this youth centre near Beijing, which Rede Architects and Moguang Studio have built within a derelict garment factory. The industrial site in Beizhuang Town, Miyun District, comprised a dozen disused buildings arranged around two courtyards and surrounded by factories and mountains. Rede Architects and Moguang

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Rear extension by Turner Architects contains “cloister-like” rooms built around a central courtyard

May 15, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A rear extension to a Georgian house in London

Turner Architects has renovated and extended a Georgian terraced house in south London, creating a sequence of living spaces interspersed with courtyards that bring the changing colours of the seasons inside. The brief for A Cloistered House was to give a new lease of life to a three-storey residence in Clapham that had been abandoned

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The Seeds are a group of shingle-clad pods nestled in a Chinese forest

May 5, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A wooden holiday cabin in China

ZJJZ Atelier has completed a cluster of ellipsoidal holiday cabins for a woodland hotel in Jiangxi, China, which are wrapped in wooden shingles and mirrored aluminium tiles. Shanghai studio ZJJZ Atelier designed the buildings for the Tree Wow hotel, which specified that the pods should be inspired by natural forms to echo their scenic surroundings.

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Steel-and-glass “greenhouse” envelops existing buildings at Paddenbroek Education Centre

April 27, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
The exterior of the Paddenbroek Education Centre

Jo Taillieu Architecten has transformed a former fruit farm in the Belgian village of Gooik into an educational centre featuring refurbished agricultural buildings enclosed within a greenhouse-like structure. The Paddenbroek Education Centre was established by the municipality of Gooik to educate visitors about the countryside, in particular the surrounding Pajottenland region. The facility’s mission is

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Graux & Baeyens creates flexible living areas inside updated Belgian bungalow

April 26, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A patio partially enclosed by brick walls

Graux & Baeyens Architecten has modernised a 1960s bungalow in De Haan, Belgium, by opening up the interior and adding cross-shaped steel supports to the main living spaces. The Ghent-based studio said the existing bungalow had an “uninspiring original construction” and set about creating a series of flexible spaces that could adapt to the needs

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