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Concrete warehouse creates tactile backdrop for Italian art gallery by AMAA

April 11, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A concrete gateway marks the entrance to the Threshold and Treasure art gallery, which architecture studio AMAA has housed in a former print house in Arzignano, Italy. Created for the cultural association Atipografia, the gallery occupies the tactile, unfinished interiors of a 19th-century masonry and timber warehouse, which has been framed and extended with concrete,

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Wavy steel canopy shelters rooftop bar on historic stables in Camden

April 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

An undulating crown of black and brown steelwork covers The Lucky Club bar, which architecture studio vPPR has positioned on top of the historic Stables Market in Camden, London. Designed by vPPR for developer LabTech, the rooftop bar and restaurant curve around the northwestern edge of the 19th-century stable building. It sits alongside the Grade

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Wurk designs underwater parking garage for 7,000 bicycles in Amsterdam

April 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Dutch studio Wurk has completed an underwater bicycle park next to Amsterdam’s central station, with glossy white interiors submerged nine metres beneath the surface of its famous canals. Connected directly to the city’s metro and railway system via six escalators, the underwater space is reportedly the first of its kind in the world, providing parking

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Wurk designs underwater parking garage for 7,000 bicycles in Amsterdam

April 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Dutch studio Wurk has completed an underwater bicycle park next to Amsterdam’s central station, with glossy white interiors submerged nine metres beneath the surface of its famous canals. Connected directly to the city’s metro and railway system via six escalators, the underwater space is reportedly the first of its kind in the world, providing parking

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Francesco Pierazzi Architects adds light-filled extension to Suncatcher house

April 9, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Francesco Pierazzi Architects has extended a suburban house in Croydon, adding two volumes with carefully-positioned openings that follow the path of the sun. The minimalist extension, aptly named Suncatcher, was designed by Francesco Pierazzi Architects to wrap an existing steep-roofed cottage owned by a family of four in Purley. Along the western edge

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Exposed-concrete stair pulls light and views into Porto home by Tsou Arquitectos

March 30, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A concrete staircase and curved lightwell draw light and views into Casa Vertical, a tall, narrow home in Porto, Portugal, which has been designed by local practice Tsou Arquitectos. In response to the home’s thin triangular site, Tsou Arquitectos chose to connect the spaces of the dwelling vertically, giving the project its name. Entering alongside

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Fran Silvestre Arquitectos creates minimalist home behind historic facade in Spain

March 27, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Sparse and minimalist interiors define this home in Valencia, Spain, by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, which sits behind the historic frontage of a large 20th-century residential building. Called The Empty House, the four-bedroom dwelling was designed to be a “blank canvas” for its owners, with plain interiors that starkly contrast the traditional shell of the existing

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Fran Silvestre Arquitectos creates minimalist home behind historic facade in Spain

March 27, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Sparse and minimalist interiors define this home in Valencia, Spain, by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, which sits behind the historic frontage of a large 20th-century residential building. Called The Empty House, the four-bedroom dwelling was designed to be a “blank canvas” for its owners, with plain interiors that starkly contrast the traditional shell of the existing

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SDA completes flood-resilient concrete house in Vietnam

March 26, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. The home occupies a verdant site in the Thu Duc district that is often flooded by a nearby river, requiring Vietnamese studio SDA to elevate

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Moussafir Architectes retrofits 1970s Paris office with movable PVC curtains

March 24, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Movable curtains of translucent PVC mesh cover the facade of this block of offices and flats in Paris, which has been converted from a 1970s concrete structure by local practice Moussafir Architectes. The practice collaborated with Amsterdam-based design studio Inside Outside on the 10-metre-high curtain facade, introduced to complement the original building’s concrete structure, which

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