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Bloom Architecture uses handmade cement blocks to decorate Cambodian houses

September 28, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Handmade blocks made of grey and red cement define the facades of Small Houses, a collection of homes that Cambodian studio Bloom Architecture created as a “haven” from the bustling streets of Phnom Penh. Located in a compact urban area in a historic part of the Cambodian capital, the homes are accessed by a narrow

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WillemsenU submerges house under the ground in the Netherlands

September 27, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Dutch studio WillemsenU has completed a house that is partially buried underground to blend in with its rural surroundings in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Appropriately called The House Under the Ground, the home is designed by WillemsenU to “enhance the beauty” of its site and act as a retreat for the couple who own it. Its

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Ochre-tinted precast concrete forms Nightingale housing by Kennedy Nolan

September 22, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has completed Leftfield, an affordable housing block with a “playful” form of pigmented precast concrete panels in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne. Part of the Nightingale Village development, the block by Kennedy Nolan is an example of a typology created under the Nightingale development model, which aims to design residential projects

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Spridd slots T-shaped house into rocky hillside in Stockholm

September 18, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Raked concrete covers this T-shaped house, which architecture studio Spridd has slotted into a sloped site surrounded by trees on the island of Nacka in Stockholm. Appropriately called T House, the home was created by Spridd for a family, along with a separate guest apartment for an elderly relative. To minimise excavation of the steeply

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Clay tiles envelop prefabricated Studio Shed in the Netherlands

September 5, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Earth-coloured tiles define Studio Shed, an outbuilding designed by architecture practice LMNL Office in the garden of a house in Brabant, the Netherlands. Commissioned by the owners of a home also designed by LMNL Office, the garden studio has a deliberately simple form crafted from prefabricated timber panels. “The contemporary aesthetic recalls the design elements

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ElasticoFarm raises house on stilts around central void in Italian park

August 30, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Architecture studio ElasticoFarm has created a house on stilts around a suspended void nestled in the trees of a private park in Cambiano, a town to the southeast of Turin in northern Italy. Created as an independent new building alongside an existing 1970s house as a home for a young chef, ElasticoFarm’s intervention saw the

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Henley Halebrown turns Victorian industrial terrace into creative studios in Hackney

August 29, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

London studio Henley Halebrown has completed a sensitive remodel of a 19th-century industrial terrace into a small campus of creative workspaces in Hackney, London. Located in the De Beauvoir Town conservation area, the adaptive reuse project has transformed an existing warren of rooms across two buildings into a coherent sequence with new staircases and rooftop

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Notan Office creates “micro-city” of housing on an industrial site in Brussels

August 23, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Belgian studio Notan Office has completed Duchesse, a series of homes positioned around a communal garden on an old industrial site in Brussels. Commissioned to create two houses and six apartments, Notan Office designed the complex to create the feeling of being in a small village or “micro-city”. Duchesse’s design also aims to preserve the site’s

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Chris Collaris Architects crowns Lime Wash House with oversized roof

August 16, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Lime-washed bricks and a black overhanging roof characterise this house that Dutch studio Chris Collaris Architects has completed in a verdant garden near Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Appropriately called Lime Wash House, the home is designed for a family who wanted an intimate connection to their surroundings in the suburb of Sonniuspark in Son en Breugel. Chris

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On Architects draws on irrigation channels for concrete South Korean cafe

August 15, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Walls made of exposed concrete and rice straw define Nonspace, a cafe designed by Korean studio On Architects to reference historic rice paddies in Icheon, South Korea. The cafe and community space by On Architects has a distinctive gridded ziggurat form, with roof terraces reminiscent of Ricardo Bofill’s La Muralla Roja housing estate in Spain.

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