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Wallmakers wraps Indian home with perforated walls made with discarded toys

April 5, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Wallmakers has repurposed approximately 6,200 discarded toys to construct the walls of Toy Storey, a circular home in Kerala, India. The aptly named residence by Wallmakers uses toys discarded in the area, which are unsuitable for recycling, as structural components and decoration within the external walls. “The main concept of Toy Storey revolves

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Wallmakers wraps Indian home with perforated walls made with discarded toys

April 5, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Wallmakers has repurposed approximately 6,200 discarded toys to construct the walls of Toy Storey, a circular home in Kerala, India. The aptly named residence by Wallmakers uses toys discarded in the area, which are unsuitable for recycling, as structural components and decoration within the external walls. “The main concept of Toy Storey revolves

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Richard Parr Associates nestles charred-timber home into UK countryside

March 18, 2024 Starr Charles 0

UK architecture studio Richard Parr Associates has completed a single-storey family residence on a wild countryside site in Oxfordshire. Drawing on the local farmhouse typology, the home by Richard Parr Associates features a sloped-roof brick structure clad with charred timber and topped with corrugated metal roofing. To better frame the views of the surrounding landscape, the

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Witherford Watson Mann Architects adds timber River Wing extension to Cambridge college

March 15, 2024 Starr Charles 0

British architecture studio Witherford Watson Mann has inserted an oak-framed structure into a narrow site within the Grade I-listed Clare College at Cambridge University. Originally built in 1326 and then reconstructed in 1785, the 1,060-square-metre college needed an update to improve its accessibility, escape routes and services, as well as more flexible space to house

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HKS references “forts and palaces” for monolithic arena in Saudi Arabia

March 15, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio HKS has unveiled plans for The Arena in Diriyah, a 20,000-seat venue for sports and entertainment in Saudi Arabia that references the country’s traditional architecture. Designed by HKS for developer Diriyah Company, the arena will be located in the town of Diriyah and intended as a “tourism hallmark” that helps draw visitors to the

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Foster + Partners draws on “historic water towns” for mixed-use Shanghai neighbourhood

March 12, 2024 Starr Charles 0

British architecture studio Foster + Partners has unveiled plans for the Xicen Science and Technology Centre, a mixed-use development located within the Yangtze River Delta region in Shanghai, China. Informed by the region’s historic water towns, the development by Foster + Partners will utilise the site’s new and existing waterways to create a “waterside community”

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Be Studio punctuates Spanish apartment block with ceramic tiles and green blinds

March 12, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Architecture practice Be Studio has created the Churruca apartment block in the coastal region of Maresme, which is organised around a four-storey internal courtyard. Influenced by the local Mediterranean vernacular and coastal climate, the apartment block has a cream-hued facade with balconies fronted by green blinds and ceramic tile detailing that enable the block to “blend with

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Klein Dytham Architecture wraps Karuizawa Commongrounds Bookstore with “flowing” steel roof

March 12, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Tokyo-based studio Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a bookstore wrapped with an undulating steel roof resembling “outstretched arms” in Nagano, Japan. Located at the foot of Mount Asama, the space was designed by Klein Dytham Architecture to be a community hub for the local residents. It sits at the centre of a larger complex comprised

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Matthew Lloyd Architects’ Bourne Estate was designed for “extreme longevity”

March 11, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Continuing our Social Housing Revival series, we revisit the regeneration of the Grade II listed Bourne Estate in north London, completed in 2018 by local studio Matthew Lloyd Architects. Situated in the London borough of Camden and commissioned by the local council, the project by Matthew Lloyd Architects saw the demolition and replacement of an existing

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Senoner Tammerle Architekten places reflective mountain shelter in Italian Alps

March 6, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Italian studio Senoner Tammerle Architekten has created a mountain shelter in the Alps, distinguished by galvanised steel cladding chosen to reflect the hues of the sky. Sat at an altitude of 2,735 metres, the structure is designed as an updated version of the Shelter Santnerpass – a single-storey structure originally in the Italian Alps in

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