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Mounds of surplus soil form walls in Japanese house by ADX

May 31, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Soil House by ADC architects

Architect studio ADX made a feature of the soil excavated from the building site of this Minamisōma home, Soil House, created for a client who was displaced by the 2011 Japan earthquake. The owner of Soil House in Fukushima Prefecture had to move to temporary housing and manage the separation of his family after the

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VATRAA adds pink plaster walls in south London council house renovation

May 26, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Council House Renovation by VATRAA

Architecture studio VATRAA has won a Don’t Move, Improve! award with this London council house renovation featuring pink-toned plaster walls and an oversized window. Called Council House Renovation, the project involved a full refurbishment and remodelling of the two-bedroom home in Bermondsey, south London. VATRAA’s design was a joint winner in the 2021 Compact Design

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BIG unveils design for Västerås Travel Center with curved timber ceiling

May 25, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Vasteras Travel Center render by BIG

Architecture firm BIG has updated its plans for a transport hub designed for Swedish city Västerås, which will feature a building with a dramatically sweeping roof. BIG envisions the Västerås Travel Center as a hub that brings together all of the city’s transport infrastructure under one roof and in one continuous landscape. The building will

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Overlapping stone and concrete layers form Casa SAB by PSV Arquitectura

May 24, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Casa SAB by PSV Arquitectura

Argentinian firm PSV Arquitectura developed this grand concrete slab house in Córdoba in longitudinal strips so that all of its spaces would face north. Casa SAB, which backs onto the Cañuelas Country Golf club in Argentina, is entirely shielded from the strong western sun, while each of its rooms enjoys good light from its northern

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Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition shows how algae can be used as air purifiers and protein source

May 24, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Bit.Bio.Bot algae installation

EcoLogicStudio has designed the Bit.Bio.Bot exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, which invites visitors to taste freshly harvested algae and consider growing it in their own homes. Combining architecture and microbiology, the exhibition shows how city dwellers could purify the air, sequester carbon, gain a sustainable food source and enjoy a greater connection to nature

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MVRDV to transform Eindhoven’s Heuvel shopping centre with glass “Music Mountain”

May 24, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

MVRDV will “break open” the Heuvel shopping centre in Eindhoven to connect it with the city, in plans that will also add a music venue topped with a climbable glass mountain. In a proposal that’s being unofficially called “The Hill Quarter & The Music Mountain”, MVRDV envisions radically transforming the ageing inner-city shopping centre to

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Snøhetta references libraries for Oslo pop-up store A Better Place to Think

May 21, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Oslo pop-up shop by Snøhetta

Architecture firm Snøhetta has created a library-informed respite from the digital world with A Better Place to Think, an Oslo pop-up shop for tablet brand reMarkable. Located just off the city’s main shopping street, the temporary store was made to showcase the brand’s tablet, which has a paper-like surface. Snøhetta looked to libraries for the

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Dutch Pavilion questions the premise of Venice Biennale with Who Is We? exhibit

May 20, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Entry to Who Is We? exhibition with video work

In response to the Venice Architecture Biennale’s theme How will we live together?, architect Afaina de Jong and artist Debra Solomon have answered with another question in the Dutch Pavilion: Who is we? The Netherlands’ contribution to the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale is coordinated by the Het Nieuwe Instituut. Its team argues that the “we”

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Sebastian Cox creates subtle treehouse from scorched larch

May 19, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Treehouse in Hertfordshire by Sebastian Cox

Designer Sebastian Cox has designed a treehouse in the English countryside that features scorched larch cladding, a shingled roof and a balustrade of chestnut branches. Cox’s studio created the treehouse in Hertfordshire for the children of a client, who now have a private play area within sight of the family home. Made in collaboration with

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Sebastian Cox creates subtle treehouse from scorched larch

May 19, 2021 Rima Sabina Aouf 0
Treehouse in Hertfordshire by Sebastian Cox

Designer Sebastian Cox has designed a treehouse in the English countryside that features scorched larch cladding, a shingled roof and a balustrade of chestnut branches. Cox’s studio created the treehouse in Hertfordshire for the children of a client, who now have a private play area within sight of the family home. Made in collaboration with

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