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Tropical plants and geometric glass walls screen house and restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City

November 12, 2017 India Block 0

An old house in a narrow alleyway in Ho Chi Minh City has been given a modernist makeover by local architecture studio Kientruc O, which transformed it to include a restaurant with a lush garden wrapped by gridded glazing. Kientruc O redesigned the 161-square-metre building to connect the house with the garden, and garden with the street, and

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Gilbert and George are turning an east London brewery into an art gallery

November 11, 2017 India Block 0

Artists Gilbert and George are converting 19th-century brewery in London’s Spitalfields into their own public gallery “because the Tate never shows our work”. The building off Brick Lane is being converted by SIRS – a design firm founded by Gilbert Prousch’s architect nephew – and planning permission has been granted by Tower Hamlets council. George Prousch and George

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Underground Roman temple reopens as immersive museum using light, haze and sound

November 9, 2017 India Block 0

A subterranean Roman temple where a mysterious cult worshipped has been restored within an immersive museum below Bloomberg’s headquarters in London by 9/11 memorial museum exhibition designers Local Projects. Part of Bloomberg’s £1 billion Norman Foster-designed European headquarters was restoring the Temple of Mithras to its original location seven metres below modern street level. The reconstructed temple sits in a

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SOM designs tapering skyscraper that would dwarf neighbouring Cheesegrater

November 7, 2017 India Block 0

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed visuals for a 56-storey skyscraper in the City of London, featuring a slanting glass facade that resembles the Rogers Stirk Harbour-designed Cheesegrater next door. Images produced for property investors London and Oriental show the tapered glass tower occupying a hexagonal footprint. Positioned at 100 Leadenhall Street, the new tower will be neighbours with the Leadenhall Building,

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SOM designs tapering skyscraper that would dwarf neighbouring Cheesegrater

November 7, 2017 India Block 0

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed visuals for a 56-storey skyscraper in the City of London, featuring a slanting glass facade that resembles the Rogers Stirk Harbour-designed Cheesegrater next door. Images produced for property investors London and Oriental show the tapered glass tower occupying a hexagonal footprint. Positioned at 100 Leadenhall Street, the new tower will be neighbours with the Leadenhall Building,

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House with “margin space” helps relocating city-dwellers adjust to life in rural Japan

November 7, 2017 India Block 0

To encourage the occupants of this house to socialise with their neighbours, Japanese architect Takanori Ineyama added a patio deck, a first-floor balcony and a large bay window to the building’s facade. Ineyama designed Tab House for a young family who recently moved out of Tokyo, in favour of a more rural setting in Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Plans unveiled to pedestrianise London’s Oxford Street in 2018

November 6, 2017 India Block 0

The western section of London’s main shopping street is to be transformed into a pedestrian zone filled with public art, it was announced today. London mayor Sadiq Kahn has revealed plans to start imposing traffic restrictions along Oxford Street by the end of 2018, allowing the congested street to become a pedestrian-priority area. Visualisations show the pedestrianised

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MVRDV completes library shaped like a giant eye in Chinese city Tianjin

November 4, 2017 India Block 0

Dutch firm MVRDV has built a public library that looks like a huge eye, as part of a new cultural district in Tianjin, China. The atrium of the Tianjin Binhai Public Library is deliberately designed to look like a 3D eyeball, staring out through the building’s glazed facade. The five-storey-high space is framed by floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, which are staggered at different levels to

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Hanoi cafe features indoor waterfalls, koi-carp ponds and an aquaponics vegetable patch

November 2, 2017 India Block 0

Behind the scalloped facade of the Koi Cafe in Hanoi, Farming Architects has created a fish pond, an indoor waterfall and a rooftop vegetable patch that exists in a self sustaining eco-system. A steel frame has been added to the existing three-storey building in the Vietnamese capital, transforming it into a green oasis for cafe customers with an integrated aquaponics

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Hong Kong apartment tower targets “urban bohemians” with community kitchen and alfresco dining

November 1, 2017 India Block 0

Dezeen promotion: New World Development has completed a Hong Kong housing project designed to cater to a new generation of sophisticated urbanites, with interiors that celebrate art, craft, food and local heritage. Entrepreneur Adrian Cheng of New World Development worked with Japanese interior design company Simplicity and architect Thomas Cheung Kong-Yeung to design Bohemian House, which is

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