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Melbourne courtyard house by BKK Architects “explores shades of privacy”

September 14, 2022 Katie Last 0

Australian architecture studio BKK Architects has created Keep House, a home in Melbourne that plays with levels of privacy to stay connected to nature but separated from the nearby public parkland. The home, which was designed for a couple and their teenage children, is located on a wedge-shaped plot of land next to suburban parkland.

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Lake Flato Architects creates rammed-earth ranch house in Marfa

September 8, 2022 Katie Last 0

American architecture studio Lake Flato has created a ranch house from rammed earth in the desert grasslands of Texas named Marfa Ranch. Located in Marfa, a small art and ranching community between the Chihuahuan Desert and the Davis Mountains, the building was inspired by the early architecture of the region with rooms arranged around a

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KKAA YTAA splits Japanese house in two with central courtyard

August 31, 2022 Katie Last 0

Architecture studio KKAA YTAA has completed a home with a central courtyard named House in Front of a School in Nara, Japan. Located in the densely populated capital of Japan’s Nara Prefecture, the house was split into two parts that are connected by a bridge across a central courtyard. The unusual arrangement was created as the client wanted

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Groupwork emulates lost 18th-century buildings with Bristol apartment block

August 18, 2022 Katie Last 0

Redcliffe Way Housing in Bristol by Groupwork

Architecture studio Groupwork has designed a bronze mesh-covered block of apartments informed by buildings lost in world war two bombings for a site opposite St Mary Redcliffe Church in Bristol, UK. Named Redcliffe Way, the 120-apartment development will be wrapped in a bronze mesh that replicates the scale and forms of previous 18th-century buildings that

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Clancy Moore Architects adds angular writer’s hut to Dublin home

August 16, 2022 Katie Last 0

The Writing Room by Clancy Moore Architects

Irish studio Clancy Moore Architects has created The Writing Room in the garden of a Dublin home from recycled aluminium and red-stained beech. The structure, which was built off site and craned into the home’s garden, has a geometric aluminium exterior, red timber walls and a V-shaped mirrored ceiling. According to the studio, the limitations

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GOA tops Metasequoia Grove Restaurant with cluster of tree-informed pyramids

August 15, 2022 Katie Last 0

Chinese studio Group of Architects has created a restaurant topped with a canopy made from a series of aluminium pyramidal forms in the village of Suzhou, China. The structure, which was informed by a grove of metasequoia trees, was designed by Group of Architects (GOA) for a waterside site in China’s Jiangnan region. “We want the design of Metasequoia Grove Restaurant to

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Studio McW transforms London warehouse into live-work space for Earthrise Studio

August 11, 2022 Katie Last 0

London-based architecture practice Studio McW has converted an east London warehouse into an office and living space for climate activists and filmmakers Jack Harries and Alice Aedy. The live-work space was renovated from a century-old shoe factory featuring steel windows, exposed concrete beams, and a double-height pitched roof. The studio took a minimalistic approach to

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Snøhetta unveils 36-storey “urban retreat” in Tokyo

August 5, 2022 Katie Last 0

Architecture studio Snøhetta has revealed the design for a skyscraper in Tokyo, named Shibuya Upper West Project, which is intended to be “a sanctuary of peace and relaxation in the bustle of the city”. The 164.8-metre-tall development, which will be the studio’s largest in Japan, will include shops, apartments, a luxury hotel, and facilities for art and cultural

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Cocktail bar “suspended between sea and sky” draws upon nearby Mediterranean

August 4, 2022 Katie Last 0

Architect Gae Avitabile has designed the interior of Civico 29, a sea-informed cocktail bar in the coastal town of Sperlonga, Italy. Located halfway between Rome and Naples on Italy’s western coast, the bar features colours and materials informed by the nearby seafront, with blue motifs and wave-like forms dominating the space. Avitabile transformed the oceanside building, which previously contained

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SOM unveils “cloud-like” headquarters for Alibaba in Shanghai

July 26, 2022 Katie Last 0

Architecture studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed its design for a headquarters for global technology company Alibaba in Shanghai’s Xuhui District. The 75,000 square-metre building will consist of a group of cuboid-shaped modules containing office space arranged in a form that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) liken to a cloud. “Pushing and pulling the interior spaces

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