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Perkins&Will designs interiors with “sense of connectivity” for healthcare office in Texas

July 24, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture firm Perkins&Will has completed an office interior in Dallas, Texas for healthcare provider Signify, centred around a large steel staircase and tiered wooden platform for meetings. The global practice, which has an office in Dallas, was approached to create a 13,700-square-metre workplace that would emphasise collaboration, connectivity and transparency while catering to a wide

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Olson Kundig completes Noah’s ark-informed children’s museum in Berlin

July 19, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

A doughnut-shaped timber “ark” filled with animal sculptures sits at the centre of the recently opened ANOHA children’s museum at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Architecture studio Olson Kundig designed the museum, which is an addition to the Daniel Libeskind-designed Jewish Museum Berlin, to be a space for “discovery, exploration and play”. Set opposite the existing museum’s building, ANOHA

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Studio Puisto completes wellness centre that steps down towards a lake

July 17, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Studio Puisto has designed a lakeside wellness centre in the town of Ähtäri, Finland, incorporating a large area of stepped wooden seating and jetties that aim to reconnect the local community with the waterfront. Saunaravintola Kiulu, which combines a sauna and a restaurant, grew out of a masterplan for year-round tourism that the Helsinki-based Studio

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Chicago’s Swiss Consulate interior is a nod to 1960s modernism

July 16, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Swiss firm HHF and Chicago-based studio Kwong Von Glinow have collaborated on the interiors of the Swiss Consulate located in Chicago’s landmark John Hancock Center. Located on the 38th floor of the 100-storey supertall skyscraper, the 1,500-square-foot office is designed to pay homage to the shared architectural history of Chicago and Switzerland. HHF and Kwong

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KOS+A designs waterfront Hamptons home for watching the sunset

July 15, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

New York practice Kevin O’Sullivan + Associates has completed a waterfront house in the Hamptons with balconies for looking out at the sunset. The practice was approached after the clients had discovered the site in a small cove in the Hamptons village of Sag Harbor. Called Sag Harbor 2, the design prioritises northwest views of the

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René Pérez Gómez designs concrete retreat in Mexican forest

July 13, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Mexican architect René Pérez Gómez has completed Casa Amapa, a pared-back concrete house nestled in the Primavera forest near Guadalajara in Mexico. The home has been designed to be a place for reflection and connection with nature, arranged around a series of existing trees to have as little impact on the woodland as possible. Built

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Fraher & Findlay creates “ghostly” row of terraces by mimicking neighbouring buildings

July 10, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

The white brick Ghost Houses by Fraher & Findlay

Stepped “gingerbread” gables and textured white brickwork animate the facade of Ghost Houses, a development of three slim terraced homes in Nunhead, London by Fraher & Findlay. London studio Fraher & Findlay acted as the client, architect and contractor for the project, which replaces a detached late Victorian house and an adjacent car park and

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Graux & Baeyens adds bright living areas to Belgian chalet

July 9, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian practice Graux & Baeyens Architecten has renovated and extended a 1960s chalet in Destelbergen, adding a new series of light-filled living spaces raised atop a concrete plinth. Designed as a family home for one of the Ghent-based practice’s co-founders, Basile Graux, the new extension has been blended into the existing structure by wrapping everything

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Mole Architects designs seaside home to look like an ad hoc cluster of buildings

July 8, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

UK studio Mole Architects has created a house named Freeholders within three contrasting volumes on the coast at Wells-next-the-Sea, UK. The studio designed the two-bedroom house to mimic the irregular clusters of cottages and terraces that characterise the conservation area in the north Norfolk seaside town. Built on the site of a pub called the Freeholders Arms, which gives

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Tiago Sousa inserts brick house into stone ruin in Portugal

June 26, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Portuguese architect Tiago Sousa has renovated the remains of a traditional house in the village of Romarigães by inserting a brick volume into an existing stone shell. Called Box, the new two-bedroom house in Portugal does not extend beyond the footprint of the original building. Instead, openings, terraces and balconies slot into the old stone

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