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All-black sauna embedded in Stockholm’s rocky island frames sea views

October 23, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Architect Matteo Foresti has designed a sauna set into the rocks of and island within the Stockholm archipelago that’s lined with dark oak and black stone. Located in the Värmdö municipality, Sauna R has been dug into a shallow slope, accessed via a thin path that winds through the rocky surroundings dotted with cabins. The simple box

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Tractor shed converted into house clad in scorched wood

October 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

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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This Modern Sauna Is Positioned To Overlook Stockholm’s Archipelago

October 8, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Joao Morgado Architecture firm Matteo Foresti has designed a modern sauna that sits above Stockholm’s archipelago of islands. Designed as a black box that’s embedded into the rocks, the small sauna is a warm and cozy space illuminated from the inside. Photography by Joao Morgado At the front of the sauna, a deck […]

Monolithic black house conceals internal courtyard containing a single tree

September 19, 2019 India Block 0

Apollo Architects and Associates has designed Umber, a house in Tokyo clad in black aluminium-zinc alloy coated steel with a hidden courtyard. The entrance to the single-storey house is reached via a pathway enclosed on either side by black walls and covered by wooden slats, intended to evoke what the studio describes as “the nostalgic

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WGNB designs all-black flagship store for fashion brand Juun.J

August 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Korean practice WGNB has designed the flagship shop for fashion brand Juun.J in Seoul as a cluster of black geometric forms. Working with the motifs of circles, triangles and squares, the store occupies a black-rendered building that abuts a cafe with a steep triangular roof sweeping down to cover a glazed circular courtyard. WGNB drew on

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SERA expands Portland Playhouse with building wrapped in glass and charred wood

July 30, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio SERA Architects has overhauled a 115-year-old church building and created a contemporary addition to house a nonprofit theatre company in Oregon. Since 2008, the Portland Playhouse has operated out of a once-vacant church in the city’s King neighbourhood. In the early days, the group got by with sofa seating and other make-shift solutions.

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2 Small Apartment Layouts With Deliciously Dark Decor Ideas

July 9, 2019 HD Staff 0

Dark interior design can bring delicious results. Bold black living rooms make an immediate strong statement to everyone who enters into the home. Black kitchens set a delectable mood at dinner time, even before sitting down to dine. Today we’re looking at two small interiors that are packed full of dark decor ideas to fill […]

Anders Ruhwald converts abandoned Detroit building into all-black installation

July 3, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0

Unit 1: 3583 Dubois St. in Detroit by Anders Ruhwald

Charred wood, lead shingles and molten glass are among the materials used by artist Anders Ruhwald to transform a vacant Detroit apartment building into a public art installation that acts as a memorial. The installation, called Unit 1: 3583 Dubois, is located inside a once-dilapidated apartment building on Detroit’s East Side. Anders Ruhwald – a ceramic

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Carmody Groarke completes boat museum on the shore of Windermere

March 21, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0

Carmody Groarke has completed the Windermere Jetty museum in England’s Lake District, which houses a collection of boats in a lake-side cluster of copper-clad buildings. The London studio headed by Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke, designed the Windermere Jetty museum to accommodate an internationally significant display of boats, including motorboats, steam launches and yachts. Carmody Groarke designed

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Projecting windows “distort the facades” of Portuguese care home

February 23, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0

Elderly Care Centre by Nuno Piedade Alexandre

Nuno Piedade Alexandre has completed a black extension to an elderly care centre in the Portuguese municipality of Ponte de Sor, which is covered with protruding windows. Nuno Piedade Alexandre, a studio based in the nearby city of Santarém, created the building as additional accommodation for the Santa Casa da Misericórdia’s Elderly Care Centre in the

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