Large openings all along the front of the concrete facade of Frame House on the Spanish island of Menorca frame expansive views towards the sea. Frame House was designed by Barcelona-based Nomo Studio as a summer home for a family. It occupies a steeply sloping site in the resort of Coves Noves on the island’s
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Nuno Piedade Alexandre has completed a black extension to an elderly care centre in the Portuguese municipality of Ponte de Sor, which is covered with protruding windows. Nuno Piedade Alexandre, a studio based in the nearby city of Santarém, created the building as additional accommodation for the Santa Casa da Misericórdia’s Elderly Care Centre in the
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Concrete-lined living spaces extend out onto angular balconies at this low-cost housing block in Zurich, designed by locally based studio Gus Wüstemann. The monolithic block is surrounded by 1950s housing in the suburb of Albisrieden. It was designed by the Swiss architecture studio for the Baechi Foundation and contains nine apartments. The new block is slotted in among
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Chasper Schmidlin and Lukas Voellmy have excavated into a mountain, and restored a 12th-century monastery in the Swiss Alpine town of Susch, to create an art museum. Muzeum Susch occupies the remains of a monastery that was established in 1157 on a sloping site next to a river in the Engadin valley, which is on
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Espen Surnevik’s replacement for a 19th-century church lost to a fire in the Norwegian village of Våler has pyramidal timber roofs that funnel daylight into its worship spaces. Våler Kirke replaces the village’s historic wooden kirke – or church – that was completely destroyed by a fire in 2009. Oslo-based architect Espen Surnevik’s design was the winner of an international competition as
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Luotuowan Pergola’s undulating geodesic canopy has been made by LUO Studio from wooden beams salvaged during the renovation of Luotuowan village in China. Chinese architecture firm LUO Studio used timber struts discarded during the village’s renovation works to create a geodesic tunnel that serves as a sheltered community gathering space. Like many parts of rural China, the settlement
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The cylindrical St Andrews Beach House in Victoria, Australia, designed by Austin Maynard Architects does away with unnecessary circulation space to create a laid-back communal atmosphere. The owner of the timber holiday home wanted to buck the growing trend for large second homes in Australia. Instead they wanted a modest building that sits unobtrusively in its surroundings, nestled among the
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Vo Trong Nghia Architects has covered the roof and facade of Breathing House in Ho Chi Minh City with a canopy of climbing plants to create private outdoor spaces. Breathing House occupies a narrow and deep lot within a densely populated neighbourhood that is accessible only via a narrow alleyway. Due to the restricted site, the
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Why Architects Group has converted a residential building in Mashhad, Iran, into a commercial showroom for the Bouzarjomehr Company with a brick staircase leading to a public roof terrace. The Iranian architecture studio transformed an existing dilapidated house into a showroom space for the Bouzarjomehr Company, which specialises in distributing cables and wire. Rather than demolishing and
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Lacime Architects based the layout of Shimao Longyin Leisure Centre, in China, around a series of classical Chinese gardens to create serene outdoor circulation areas. The Shanghai-based studio designed the leisure centre as a contemporary interpretation of Suzhou’s traditional architecture. Landscaping firm Landao International Design helped to introduce elements representing the region’s rich heritage of classical
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