Interval Architects uses red brick for botanic art centre in a wetland park

December 13, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Tower of Bricks is an art centre on the site of a former brickworks near Hengshui, China, featuring a brick-clad observation tower and vaulted exhibition spaces. Shanghai-based studio Interval Architects designed the facility for the Hengshui Botanic Park, on the site of a derelict kiln on the outskirts of the city. The industrial building was abandoned

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Keeo4design builds spiralling viewpoint in a Czech hilltop vineyard

December 10, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The Walk Above the Vineyards is a circular ramp designed by architecture studio Keeo4design, which offers an elevated view over the vineyards in the Czech Republic’s South Moravian Region. Commissioned by the local authority, the spiralling viewing platform is located near the village of Kobylí, on the summit of the Kobylí vrch hill. Keeo4design founders Jiří Vojtěšek and Jakub

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Office S&M’s “two-faced” Janus House extension is coated with spray-on rubber

December 8, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spray-on rubber originally developed for oil rigs coats this London house extension by Office S&M, which features both round and rectangular windows. The studio headed by architects Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen designed the structure to provide a new bathroom and kitchen for a property in Walthamstow, replacing a poorly built lean-to extension that was there before. The simple

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MVRDV’s “mountainous” Future Towers provides low-cost accommodation in India

December 6, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch firm MVRDV has completed an enormous apartment building in the Indian city of Pune, featuring a series of connected blocks with sloping roofs, which branch out to enclose multipurpose courtyards. The firm led by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries designed the Future Towers development for a site in the Amanora Park

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Jean-Paul Viguier completes high-security Banque de France building

December 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

French architect Jean-Paul Viguier chose white perforated metal to clad the three monolithic volumes of a secure cash-processing centre for a bank in Paris. Jean-Paul Viguier et Associés was tasked with renovating a pair of existing buildings and introducing a new secure facility for the Banque de France, which is expected to handle over a

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Timber arches support wavy roof of Mactan Cebu International Airport in the Philippines

December 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Rolling waves inspired the undulating timber roof of this airport on the island of Cebu, designed by Integrated Design Associates as a “symbolic gateway to the Philippines”. The design of Terminal 2 at Mactan Cebu International Airport was led by Hong Kong studio Integrated Design Associates, with support from local firm Budji Royal and industrial designer Kenneth Cobonpue.

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Prefabricated modular library by Dot Architects built in just seven days

December 2, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dot Architects has completed a school library in rural China constructed in a week by amateur builders using the WikiHouse open-source architecture platform. The Huaxia Star Library is an addition to Er-tai primary school in Hebei province, a rural community which is afflicted by high levels of poverty. The school has 1,000 pupils, whose only

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Kyle House is a remote Scottish holiday home with a “monastically simple” interior

November 29, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio GRAS has transformed a derelict cottage in the Scottish Highlands into a pared-back contemporary holiday home by slotting a series of oak-lined “boxes” inside the existing stone structure. The Edinburgh-based firm, headed by architect Gunnar Groves-Raines, oversaw the renovation of Kyle House for preservation and hospitality organisation Wildland, which has restored several historic

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