Articles by James Brillon

Angular brick volumes form nArchitects’ Equal Rights Heritage Center in New York

February 16, 2019 James Brillon 0
Equal Rights Heritage Center by nArchitects

Three red brickwork volumes form this cultural centre in New York, which Brooklyn-based studio nArchitects designed to commemorate the state’s fight for social equality. The New York Equal Rights Heritage Center is located in Auburn – a city in Cayuga County, New York. It features exhibitions dedicated to key events in the state’s history of

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Plywood features in Montreal house renovation and extension by Naturehumaine

February 10, 2019 James Brillon 0
Des Erables by Naturehumaine

Architecture studio Naturehumaine has designed a minimal plywood stair with a children’s play nook for this house in Montreal, as part of its renovation and extension. The locally based studio overhauled the Des Érables residence, located in the city’s Rosement La-Petite-Patrie neighbourhood. The project involved combining two previously separate units and adding an extension to

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Taller Paralelo turns abandoned Mexico City building into Cachai House

February 4, 2019 James Brillon 0
Cachai House by Taller Paralelo

Architecture studio Taller Paralelo has overhauled an abandoned building in Mexico City to create this residence, which is arranged around a courtyard with a reflective pool. The intervention revitalised a building from the 1960s, located in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighbourhood. Despite its poor state, the structure was salvageable, according to the Mexico City-based studio. “The main

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Faceted volumes surround courtyard at FreelandBuck’s Second House

January 26, 2019 James Brillon 0
Second House by FreelandBuck

This house in Los Angeles by US architecture firm FreelandBuck comprises a series of volumes with steeply pitched tops, which draw on the roofscape of its neighbour. Locally based FreelandBuck designed the 1,500-square-foot (139-square-metre) residence as a series of irregular volumes tucked behind an existing property in the Culver City neighbourhood. The residence – aptly

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“Precarious tents” inform Casa Lluvia in rural Chile by Equipo Cazu Zeger

January 19, 2019 James Brillon 0
LLU House by Equipo Cazú Zegers

Santiago studio Equipo Cazu Zegers took cues from temporary shelters used by lumberjacks when designing this isolated retreat in southern Chile. Casa Lluvia, or Rain House, was designed to give four generations of the same family a place to live together. It is located in the Los Rios region of Chile, which is known for

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Brazilian house Jardim do Sol sits atop garage for owner’s antique cars

January 12, 2019 James Brillon 0
Jardim do Sol house by Hype Studio

A glass-bottomed pool forms a massive window to the concrete garage underneath this home in Brazil’s Porto Alegre, designed by locally based Hype Studio, where over 40 antique cars can be stored. Called Jardim do Sol, the 2,000-square-metre residence is located in a private residential community in the southern Brazilian city. Hype Studio created an underground

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Rozana Montiel builds pro-bono home for Mexico earthquake victims

January 5, 2019 James Brillon 0
Housing in Ocuilan by Rozana Montiel
Housing in Ocuilan by Rozana Montiel

Mexican architect Rozana Montiel waived her fee to design this small house in Ocuilan, Mexico, for a family that was impacted by the earthquake that hit the country in 2017.  The destruction following the severe earthquake in September 2017 – the strongest quake to hit the country since 1985 – prompted several NGOs to undertake reconstruction

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Prefabricated modules form waterfront North Fork Bluff House by RES4

January 4, 2019 James Brillon 0
North Fork Bluff House by Resolution 4 Architecture

Fabricating the structure of this Long Island home remotely allowed New York City studio Resolution 4 Architecture to minimise disturbance to its waterfront site. Located on the North Fork of New York’s Long Island, the private home is built from four equal-sized units that were fabricated elsewhere before being brought to the site. “The home

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