A courtyard with a concrete pool sits at the centre of a house on Phillip Island in Australia, designed by Branch Studio Architects and illuminated by large skylights. The site of the home, called Casa X, sits only a short distance from the beach and sea, views of which are blocked a tall run of
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Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism has extended the Oude Dijk monastery in Tilburg with a brick extension with a nursing home and apartments for its residents, the Sisters of Charity. The four-storey block extends from the south-eastern edge of the historic monastery, which date back to the mid-19th century, This extension provides 24 care home apartments
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Architecture studio Space Encounters built a tile-clad office building on stilts in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, above an existing brick warehouse. Called The Platform, the project is a homage to the superstructures designed by radical 1960s Italian practice Superstudio. The collective, whose founders recently passed away, imagined the world encircled by gridded structures. They also produced
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Russian studio Niko Architect has sunk a Teletubby-style house underneath an artificial hill punctuated by conical skylights that pop out of its planted roof. Called House in the Landscape, the three-bedroom home near Moscow is hidden under lawn-covered hummocks. The funky green roof is reminiscent of the green domed house was the house of the
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Belgian practice TOOP Architectuur has designed two mobile architects’ studios for its staff made of repurposed shipping containers clad in mirrors and timber. One studio, called Cowes, is set within the rural landscape of Westouter, close to the French border. The other, called Colok, sits at the end of an inner-city garden in Lokeren in
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A concrete house in Switzerland by architecture practice DF_DC has an outdoor terrace on a plinth banded by an asymmetrical colonnade of rectangular columns. Deep fins along the side elevations filter in light while preventing overlooking from the adjacent properties. Located on a former vineyard in Comano, the the aptly named Concrete Villa sits on
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Architecture practice Playze and design firm Schmidhuber covered the Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center in eastern China in a skin of pale green glazed ceramic tiles. Located in Ningbo Eastern New Town overlooking the waterfront, the conference centre is a venue for exhibitions and events relating to urban planning and development. “The goal was to
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MAAJ Architectes placed a cross-shaped courtyard for growing medicinal plants at the heart of a timber-framed health centre in the French town of Taverne. The Taverny Medical Centre brings together several previously disparate healthcare facilities under one roof. Because of the busy road next door MAAJ Architectes, decided to turn the building inwards. The plan of
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Swedish design practice Claesson Koivisto Rune has collaborated with the architect Todd Saunders on a white house on a steep, stone-walled plot overlooking the city of Bergen . Called Villa S+E, the house has a separate apartment at ground-floor level accessed from the bottom of the hill. The two-storey home that’s accessed from above features
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Architect Arne Algeröd and his artist wife Soile clad their house on a rocky site in Sweden with corrugated fibre cement panels to protect it from the sea’s salty spray and harsh winds. The couple’s house overlooks the sea from an exposed, rocky site in the Swedish municipality of Stenungsund. A decked terrace projects out
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