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Floating Bamboo House offers model for “stable and safe accommodation”

June 17, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Vietnamese studio H&P Architects has created a prototype for a floating home made of bamboo that is designed to withstand rising sea levels. Named Floating Bamboo House, it aims to provide locals living in and around the Mekong Delta in Vietnam with a model for climate-resilient housing. “Vietnam is one of the hardest-hit countries in

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Niwatorigoya is a chicken coop inspired by Japanese shrines

June 15, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Architecture studio 2m26 has used traditional Japanese carpentry to create a chicken coop built from cypress and cedar bark in the mountains surrounding Kyoto, Japan. Aptly named Niwatorigoya, which means chicken coop in Japanese, the structure is located in the grounds of a traditional home in the Keihoku area of Kyoto. Designed and built by

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Company Studio designs Mallorcan house for indoor-outdoor living

June 14, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A series of interior courtyards and a walkway enclosed with wooden blinds define a narrow house in Mallorca designed by Spanish practice Company Studio. Called Na Mime House, the home in the town of Sa Ràpita is a stone’s throw from the sea and was designed to dissolve the relationship between interior and exterior spaces.

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James Gorst Architects creates timber-framed temple in rural Hampshire

June 10, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Timber-framed pavilions connected by cloistered walkways define this non-denominational temple complex by British studio James Gorst Architects in rural Hampshire, UK. Located in the village of Rake within the South Downs National Park, the temple is designed for quiet contemplation and to provide a spiritual connection to the landscape. James Gorst Architects was commissioned for

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Apollo Architects & Associates create home from stacked volumes in Tokyo

June 3, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Two cantilevered stacked volumes of contrasting materials form Laxus, a new home designed by Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates. Located on a corner plot in the Ota Ward of Tokyo, the house was designed by Apollo Architects & Associates for a client with a love of walnut wood and contemporary Italian furniture. The two

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NOA designs Alpine hotel extension as a play on the mountain skyline

June 1, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A sweeping roof inspired by the mountain skyline of the Alps defines a hillside extension to the Olympic Spa Hotel by Network of Architecture. Designed to be “in symbiosis” with the landscape, the addition to the hotel in the Dolomites in Val di Fassa, Italy, houses ten new guest suites and a gym. An aerial

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Gundry + Ducker creates concertina facade for London brewery

May 26, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A folded facade of galvanised steel and glass fronts the railway arches that house this beer hall in London by local studio Gundry + Ducker. Located in Kentish Town in North London, the brewery was designed for beer company Camden Town Brewery within railway arches in a cobbled mews. Its concertinaed frontage was designed by

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FLORA is a mass-timber research pavilion in Barcelona’s forest canopy

May 24, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A team of students and researchers from Barcelona’s Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia has built a hillside timber pavilion with hanging walkways nestled in the trees. Called FLORA, an acronym for Forest Lab for Observational Research and Analysis, the pavilion is a scientific facility that will allow a researcher to live and work in

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Conservatoire of Music and Dance by PPA Architectures features pleated metal sunscreen

May 22, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

French studio PPA Architectures has designed a specialist facility dedicated to music and dance with a pleated white metal facade on the outskirts of Toulouse, France. Named Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the 3,400-square-metre facility is dedicated to providing students with a diversified artistic education in the fields of music and dance from the age

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Straw Bale House is a straw-and-timber duplex in the German countryside

May 19, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Atelier Kaiser Shen has used straw bale-construction to create an interlocking semi-detached house in the village of Pfaffenhofen, Germany. Appropriately named Straw Bale House, the dwelling near Heilbronn uses the material as insulation to improve the building’s thermal performance. Clad in silver fir wood with a steeply pitched roof, the building subtly adopts both the

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