Nomo Studio creates pixelated villa in Menorca

March 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Villa Catwalk by Nomo Studio in Menorca

Barcelona-based Nomo Studio has arranged a collection of bright white cubes to create Villa Catwalk on the island the the Mediterranean island of Menorca. The house in Coves Noves occupies two piles of bright white cubes placed on either side of a 28-metre-long central block, called the catwalk. Part external terrace and part internal, the long catwalk block

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Medusa Group designs timber-clad school with herb garden roof

March 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Akademeia High School by Medusa Group Architekci in Warsaw

Medusa Group has designed Akademeia High School in Warsaw with a large central courtyard surrounded by stepped seating that leads to a herb garden roof. Designed as an alternative to traditional schools, Akademeia High School has a system of flexible rooms that create an “educational ecosystem” of “ambiguous, multifunctional and inspiring spaces”. “Changes in the

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Travertine clads walls of school in Cannes by Atelier Stéphane Fernandez

March 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Atelier Stéphane Fernandez has completed Ecole Communale Jacqueline de Rommily, a school in Cannes comprising low, travertine-clad buildings arranged around courtyards. French practice Atelier Stéphane Fernandez, previously named Atelier Fernandez & Serres, designed the stone primary school and kindergarten to respond to the landscape of the Petit Juas area on France’s south coast. “The project speaks to the

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Berlin workshop transformed into theatre school by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst

March 5, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Ernst Busch University of Performing Arts by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst

Architecture firm Ortner & Ortner Baukunst has created a new facility for the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, by renovating a 1950s workshop building and adding a fly tower made from fibreglass and wood. Located on Zinnowitzer Strasse, on the former border of East Berlin, the four-storey building had been used as workshop space

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Woods Bagot builds sweeping stone house overlooking the ocean

March 2, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Tidal Arc House by Woods Bagot

Tidal Arc House by Woods Bagot has an arcing limestone facade with full-height openings looking out towards the sea on the coast of Victoria, Australia. Australian firm Woods Bagot designed the two-storey home on the peninsula of coastal town Flinders, 50 miles south of Melbourne. The architecture studio decided to make a dramatic departure from the

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Concrete lattice screens Phra Pradeang House from Bangkok

February 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Phra Pradeang House by all(zone)

Architecture practice All(zone) used distinctive criss-crossing of concrete blocks to provide breeze and shade to Phra Pradeang House in Bangkok. Phra Pradeang House is arranged as a series of layers. At its centre, a triple-height concrete core encloses a void that circulates air from the series of rooms that surround it, which in turn are wrapped by

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Concrete lattice screens Phra Pradeang House from Bangkok

February 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Phra Pradeang House by all(zone)

Architecture practice All(zone) used distinctive criss-crossing of concrete blocks to provide breeze and shade to Phra Pradeang House in Bangkok. Phra Pradeang House is arranged as a series of layers. At its centre, a triple-height concrete core encloses a void that circulates air from the series of rooms that surround it, which in turn are wrapped by

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Concrete lattice screens Phra Pradeang House from Bangkok

February 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Phra Pradeang House by all(zone)

Architecture practice All(zone) used distinctive criss-crossing of concrete blocks to provide breeze and shade to Phra Pradeang House in Bangkok. Phra Pradeang House is arranged as a series of layers. At its centre, a triple-height concrete core encloses a void that circulates air from the series of rooms that surround it, which in turn are wrapped by

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Haworth Tompkins designs Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre with glass foyer

February 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre Haworth Tompkins

Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre has a triple height glazed foyer with a timber ceiling designed by Haworth Tompkins for a school in Cambridge. The Perse School’s new theatre can seat up to 400 people and has a naturally ventilated glass foyer. It’s named after a former director of the National Theatre, who attended the school

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Berlin’s Terrassenhaus has a stepped concrete facade

February 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Terrassemhaus by Brandlhuber + Emde and Burlon + Muck Petzet Architekten

Terrassenhaus is a concrete mixed-use block in Berlin by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon, and Muck Petzet Architekten that has a series of external terraces. Two large staircases connect the five-storey concrete building, which houses apartments and gallery spaces and is topped by a public roof terrace. The project has been named as one of the five finalists in the

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