A courtyard lined in pale Omani stone and with a fountain and trees sits at the centre of a pair of houses in Kuwait City by Studio Toggle. Designed for two brothers and their separate families, House in Mishref was conceived as two interlocking houses stacked atop one another. A communal courtyard space connects the
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A cantilevered upper floor and a glazed gable end feature in a house in Berkshire, England, by architecture practice Spratley & Partners. The rural house is covered in pre-weathered burnt timber and brick, topped by a steep pitched zinc roof. Called Field House, the project is and located in the large grounds of an existing property.
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Trace Architecture Office has inserted a bookshop and cafe into old rammed earth gables of a long-abandoned house in rural China. Called Paddy Field Bookstore after its location, the shop on the outskirts of Xiadi Village, Fuijian province, is all but invisible from the exterior. “The remnants serve as a container that wraps around the
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A glazed cut through a barn-style gabled house set into a hill in rural Poland by Kropka Studio has views of its mountain surroundings. Set into a gently sloping site in the Beskid Ślaski mountain range, the project is called House in the Mountains. The long, thin house is also split horizontally across two stories
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A house in Japan by Atelier Kento Eto is clad entirely in black corrugated metal with sliding doors that reveal a double-height hall with white walls. Located in the town of Kadogawa in Miyazaki Prefecture, the square house combines living areas with a large open space to cater to the owner’s frequent visits from friends.
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Charlie Luxton Design decided to “refurbish not demolish” a neglected, brick bungalow on the edge of a village in the Cotswolds to create a family home. Designed by Oxfordshire-based Charlie Luxton Design the home, called Lamorna, draws on the appearance of the neighbouring agricultural structures to frame views out to an adjacent Area of Outstanding Natural
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Social Design Collaborative has created ModSkool, a modular anti-eviction school for squatter communities in Delhi that can be quickly dismantled if the settlement is demolished. ModSkool is made of cheap materials such as bamboo and local craft techniques such as charpai weaving. The concept was developed after a school for 200 children in a settlement
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Chinese practice Arch Studio have renovated an abandoned hutong in Beijing, making a house with curving glass walls around internal courtyards. Originally the hutong was a style of courtyard residence known as a siheyuan. The project is called Qishe Courtyard for the seven original structures – qishe translates as seven houses – that stood on
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A swing suspended from a floating stair and a spiral staircase of polished plaster are some of the details included by architecture studio Cousins & Cousins in a London house. Designed for a builder who also acted as the main contractor on the project, Kenwood Lee House is defined by a range of materials and
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The brick piers of an old Victorian coach house are incorporated in the facade of this skinny house in New Cross, London, designed by architecture studio Selencky Parsons. Nestled into a 3.5 metre gap in a Victorian terrace, the project is called The Coach House after the place for parking carriages that once sat on
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