Takeshi Hosaka designs tiny house in Tokyo with funnel-like roofs

June 3, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Love2 House by Takeshi Hosaka in Tokyo Japan

Architect Takeshi Hosaka has built himself a micro home in Tokyo that has a total floor area of just 19 square metres and features a pair of curved roofs. Called Love2 House, the single-storey building sits on a plot in the Bunkyo district, which measures just 31 square metres. Hosaka and his wife relocated to the

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Gresford Architects adds pink concrete extension to Hackney house

May 28, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Pink concrete Ritson Road by Gresford Architects

Gresford Architects has added an extension with a sunken seating area to a Victorian house in London’s Hackney, featuring pink walls inside and out. London-based Gresford Architects created a larger kitchen and living space at the rear of the two-storey Ritson Road property, which is located within a conservation area. The extension centre around the

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Bosske Architecture designs red “super shed” for Australian dairy farm

May 28, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Bannister Downs Dairy in Northcliffe, Western Australia, by Bosske Architecture

Bosske Architecture has completed a dairy farm in Northcliffe, Australia, featuring a curving red structure that merges the shapes of several typical agricultural building forms. The studio headed by architect Caroline Hickey designed the 9,000-square-metre industrial complex to accommodate a state-of-the-art farming and processing facility that invites visitors to observe all aspects of milk production.

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Atelier FCJZ’s Jishou Art Museum doubles as a pedestrian bridge

May 27, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Atelier FCJZ's Jishou Art Museum doubles as a pedestrian bridge

Chinese firm Atelier FCJZ has completed an art gallery that bridges a river in the city of Jishou, to encourage people to engage with art on their daily commute. The Jishou Art Museum (JAM) traverses the Wanrong river, which runs through the old town of Jishou, China. The museum provides a pedestrian route that connects parts

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Moving terrace follows the sun at Robert Konieczny’s Quadrant House

May 21, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Moving terrace connects with living spaces at Robert Konieczny's Quadrant House

This house in Poland by architect Robert Konieczny has an moving outdoor living space that pivots and docks with rooms on either side of the garden. Konieczny’s studio KWK Promes designed Quadrant House to feature a piece of kinetic architecture that tracks the sun’s movement. The Katowice-based office drew on experience from their previous projects,

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Curving terraces surround Villa Mosca Bianca by Design Haus Liberty

May 20, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Villa Mosca Bianca by Design Haus Liberty

Design Haus Liberty has built a lake house in Italy with a series of living spaces connected to rounded terraces that extend out like petals from a flower. The studio, led by architect and Dezeen Awards judge for 2018 Dara Huang, designed Villa Mosca Bianca as a holiday home for a retired couple who wanted a place

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AP Valletta adds extension with “woven” stone facade to The Coach House in Malta

May 19, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
The Coach House by AP Valletta

Architecture office AP Valletta has restored an old coach house in the town of Balzan, Malta, adding a contemporary extension featuring a weave-patterned stone facade. The Coach House occupies a building situated alongside the 18th-century Palazzo Bosio, which is located within a conservation area on the edge of Balzan’s historic centre. The original building is

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Nimtim Architects adds “unpretentious” brick and timber extension to London house

May 16, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Hive House by Nimtim Architects

Nimtim Architects has completed an extension called Hive House in south London, featuring red brick walls that complement an exposed geometric timber structure inside. The locally based studio reconfigured the existing ground floor of the Edwardian terraced house, improving the connection between the interior and a long, narrow rear garden. Hive House’s original floor plan

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Index Architectes creates asymmetric Village House in Switzerland

May 15, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Village House by Index Architectes, photography Philippe Joner / Blacksquare

Swiss studio Index Architectes has designed a house in Villarlod, Switzerland, with asymmetric gables and wrapped it in a skin of angular clay tiles. Index Architectes designed the house as a modern version of the gabled form of the barns and farmhouses that typify the region. A modern twist was given to the house by extending eaves on

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Ridged roofline at Maggie’s Cardiff recalls outline of Welsh mountains

May 12, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Maggie's Centre Cardiff by Dow Jones Architects

London studio Dow Jones Architects has completed a temporary Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Cardiff with a series of angular roofs clad entirely in weathering steel. Dow Jones Architects designed the temporary building for the Maggie’s charity, which provides free practical, social and emotional help to anyone affected by cancer, after a previous plan for a permanent building

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