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AM House is a Vietnamese holiday home surrounded by a pond and tropical gardens

April 21, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A holiday home with a thatched roof

Bedrooms and living spaces at this thatch-roofed house in Vietnam’s Cần Giuộc district open up to provide views across a pond that wraps around two sides of the building. AM House is located in a rural area of Long An Province, approximately 45 minutes by car from the owner’s main residence in Ho Chi Minh

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Yukawa Design Lab’s Margin House is built around a multipurpose atrium with a tree

April 19, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
An atrium with a central tree

Japanese architect Kohei Yukawa has designed a house for himself and his family in a suburb of Osaka, featuring flexible living spaces arranged around a double-height atrium with a tree at its centre. Yukawa, co-founder of Yukawa Design Lab, designed the Margin House in response to the unique conditions of its urban site in Ibaraki

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DeDraft expands east London house with weathering-steel extension

April 17, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A house extension clad in weathering steel

Architecture studio DeDraft has updated a semi-detached house in east London, wrapping a three-storey rear extension in weathering steel and introducing large windows that look out onto the garden. Local office DeDraft was approached to transform the interior and exterior of the four-storey AC Residence in Hackney to make it function better as a family

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The Voxel is a “quarantine cabin” made entirely from locally sourced materials

April 14, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A cabin with charred wood cladding

A team of students and researchers from Barcelona’s Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia have designed and built a cabin for self-isolation, using wood harvested from within one kilometre of its site. The project was developed as part of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia’s (IAAC) Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings and Biocities (MAEBB)

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Sou Fujimoto adds giant atrium and green hill to Shiroiya Hotel

April 12, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
Hotel guest suites on a hill

Sou Fujimoto Architects has renovated a hotel in Maebashi, Japan, removing the original building’s internal floors and adding a grassy hill containing covered in cabins. Located in the centre of the city, the 1970s Shiroiya Hotel is on the site of a former inn that hosted guests for over 300 years. As part of a

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Tim Robinson’s Terrazzo Studio provides a “tropical oasis” in a London garden

April 11, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A studio clad in green terrazzo

Architect Tim Robinson has designed and built a studio and workshop at the end of his garden in east London, featuring walls made from green terrazzo chosen to blend with the garden’s tropical planting. Robinson, who heads creative design and architecture studio Sonn, wanted to add a new space for working and relaxing in the

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Phillips Tracey squeezes brick-clad Jupp House onto site of a former garage

April 4, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local firm Phillips Tracey Architects has created a compact black-brick house in west London, featuring a double-gabled roof that references a pair of garages across the street. Phillips Tracey Architects designed Jupp House to occupy a plot at the end of a garden in Richmond that is owned by the client’s parents. The single-storey Jupp

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Thomas Randall-Page transforms Devon barn into light-filled artist’s studio

April 2, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A cork-clad studio and seating area

Architect Thomas Randall-Page has renovated and updated an agricultural barn in Devon, England, to create a studio and archive space for his father, the sculptor Peter Randall-Page. Peter Randall-Page purchased the barn in 2011 and commissioned his son Thomas’s studio to oversee its conversion into a storage space and archive for his work, which includes

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Gridded steel facade evokes bamboo forest at Hermès store in Tokyo

April 1, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Parisian studio RDAI has designed a store on Tokyo’s prestigious Omotesando Avenue for fashion house Hermès, which was designed to evoke aspects of Japanese nature and culture. The 488-square-metre store is the first freestanding Hermès outlet in Tokyo since the brand opened its Ginza emporium in 2001, which was also designed by RDAI. The latest store occupies a prime

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UNA2 covers Italian public square with bright-red loggia

April 1, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A cyclist beside a red pavilion

Red aluminium slats form an angular canopy atop a structure designed by Italian architecture office UNA2 to shelter part of a public square in the town of Rosignano Marittimo, Italy. UNA2, which is based in nearby Genoa, was commissioned by the local authority to oversee the redevelopment of the Piazza della Repubblica into a versatile,

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