Architecture firm studioplusthree has shared photos of a project in Sydney, Australia, that included the alterations and additions to an existing house. The home features a material palette of pale brick, concrete, and timber evoking the project’s coastal location and echoing the natural sandstone outcrops and manmade concrete platforms of nearby Clovelly Beach. Custom handmade […]
Barrel-vaulted concrete roofs are supported by thick laterite walls at The Stoic Wall Residence in Kerala, India, completed by local studio Lijo Reny Architects. Located in Kadirur, the home is designed by Lijo Reny Architects to be modern yet regional, with a layout and material palette that respond to Kerala’s tropical climate. It is organised
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Local studio Atelier Janda Vanderghote has used simple materials to create the T(uin)Huis Atelier garden studio in Ghent, Belgium. Although originally intended to be a woodworking studio, the building was designed to be flexible, currently acting as a temporary home for the owners while building work is carried out on their house. The studio sits
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A projecting portico formed of exposed concrete creates an “imposing” entrance to Villa Eternal Way, a home in Ljubljana by local studio OFIS Arhitekti. The home’s elevated entrance references those of traditional Slovenian structures in the area, which are raised above ground level due to the historical risk of flooding. Meanwhile, Villa Eternal Way’s facades are
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A curved wall of rammed earth made from local soil has been added to the gridded interior of Curvilinear Serenity, a house in Iceland renovated by local practice ARG Architects. ARG Architects was tasked with updating the single-storey family home built in the 1970s in Garðabær, a rapidly growing area of Iceland. According to the studio,
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A curved wall of rammed earth made from local soil has been added to the gridded interior of Curvilinear Serenity, a house in Iceland renovated by local practice ARG Architects. ARG Architects was tasked with updating the single-storey family home built in the 1970s in Garðabær, a rapidly growing area of Iceland. According to the studio,
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have devised a way of cheaply producing low-carbon concrete at scale by making use of waste cement and the steel industry’s electric arc furnaces. The method developed by the engineers involves recycling old cement from demolished buildings by heating it up and reactivating the compounds within it. Key to
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A red-hued extension built from brick and pigmented concrete has been added to a Victorian house in the suburbs of Norwich by local architecture studio Grafted. Located in the Golden Triangle in the Heigham Grove conservation area, the home is named Cast Corbel House after the handmade concrete corbelling on its facade that nods to
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Soil from across Thailand was used to create layers of colour and texture in the rammed-earth walls of Chonburi Multi-Purpose Building, designed by local studio Suphasidh Architects. Overlooking the Bay of Bangkok in the seaside town of Sattahip, the 196-square-metre building contains a cafe and four floors of multipurpose community space, alongside an existing hostel.
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A 36-metre-tall concrete silo has been converted into a dramatic hotel lobby at Bacalan Block – the transformation of a former factory site in Bordeaux into a mixed-use development by Colboc Sachet Architects. Overlooking the River Garonne near the city’s centre, the new scheme was completed in 2021 and provides two hotels, a combined hostel
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