The vaulted forms and underground caves of an old house on the Greek island of Santorini have been converted into a holiday home complex by Kapsimalis Architects. Located in the town of Fira, the components of the existing compound – including walled courtyards, a donkey barn and three small caves for storage – have been
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A double-curved timber shell constructed from 7,700 timber pieces forms the Swatch Headquarters by Shigeru Ban in Biel, Switzerland. The watchmaker’s campus centres on a 240-metre-long timber vault – one of the largest wooden structures in Europe, claims the practice. The timber gridshell – a double-curved gridded structure – contains the Swatch Headquarters, snaking across the
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David Leech Architects has built a two-storey house in Dublin that plays on the design of its neighbours to make something “ambiguous yet familiar”. Called, A House in a Garden, the project features a corner-glazed dining room that can be opened to the garden. The house riffs on the design features of its neighbours – such as
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Architecture practice Studionomad has built a block of five apartments in Bangkok with trees growing through the louvres of its facade. Called Lom Haijai, the project in the city’s Lad Phrao district was designed as an alternative to what Studionomad called “boxed air-conditioned building blocks” that dominate Bangkok. Instead, the units overlook a central courtyard
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The interchangeable steel grid of windows, shelves and lockers of a school in Sneung, Cambodia, designed by Orient Occident Atelier can also be used as a climbing frame. Built for local NGO Adventurous Global School, the structure provides a set of classrooms spaces that can be used by the entire village. Orient Occident Atelier made the school’s
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Three internal courtyards in a timber-clad bungalow designed by Osaka-based practice Arbol in Akashi, Japan, provide space for growing food and drying clothes. Located in a quiet neighbourhood, the rooms of minimalist House in Akashi turn inwards to these courtyards, with only a few small openings made in the wood-clad elevations looking out to the
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Four sculptural, brick columns frame this small extension to a Georgian terrace in north London, designed by local practice Urban Mesh for the firm’s director, James Beazer. Named Twist House, the extension to the 200 year-old home was designed to improve its connection to a garden at the rear and contains utility and shower spaces at basement level
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Folding screens of woven steel surround the upper level of the latest building at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, which provides three storeys of exhibition, workshop and teaching spaces. The building, which will be used by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Institute, was designed by multidisciplinary design team Federation Levitation (FedLev) led by architect Paulien Bremmer, working
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HeathWalker has turned a tractor shed in Hertfordshire into a house clad in timber cut from trees on the client’s own land and scorched using a blowtorch. Called the Tractor Shed, the house was built for for an artist who grew up in a farmhouse, with a “love of open landscape and barn-like spaces but also
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Finnish designers Aleksi Hautamaki and Milla Selkimaki have built a self-sufficient summer house on the five-acre island they own on the edge of Finland’s Archipelago National Park. Called Project Ö, after the Swedish word for island, two cabins on the site house living spaces and bedrooms, as well as a workshop and sauna. In order
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