Francilian House / HEMAA
In the suburbs of Paris, the extension signed Hemaa Architectes of a detached house brings together two architectures from different periods in a site with marked topography.
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Haus 2+ / Office ParkScheerbarth
Until the early 19th century, the Holzmarkt area on the river Spree was a central lumber port for Berlin. It later became a border zone of the GDR, a vacant brownfield after reunification, and from 2003, home to the legendary techno club Bar25. In 2012, this gave rise to “Holzmarkt 25”, a cooperative cultural quarter with a concert hall, a club, recording studios, restaurants, and many small kiosks and huts serving the public waterfront and drawing around 500,000 visitors every year.
The Hinterhaus Restoration / Simon Moosbrugger Architekt
New spatial vessels were integrated into the back of this well-preserved Bregenzerwald house, which playfully complements the centuries-old building type with high-quality and contemporary lounges. The new building shell appears deliberately reserved and unspectacular compared to the old building at the front. It is only when you enter the elevated crest that you can see the unconventional interior for the first time. From there you can access the building with traditionally very low ceiling heights of around 180cm via the small front door of the old building. The entrance area with the cloakroom, which acts as an access zone, leads to the new rooms in the rear building. While the office assigned to the Schopf is located directly adjacent, the upper floors are accessed via a historic, narrowly winding staircase to the upper floor where there is a seminar room, guest toilet and a bathroom.
2102CON Local renovation / Terrario Arquitectura
The project comes from the need to extend an urban dwelling, which due to its location could not grow any further, but in which the client demanded a series of spaces that he was missing: an office for teleworking, storage room, games room, library, party and meeting room…etc.
Ibi House / Arkitekt Associados
The Casa Ibi project began with a request for a small renovation in the gourmet annex, an expansion of a bedroom, and a small modification in the decoration.
Rambert School of Music and Contemporary Dance / MICA Architects
A small but carefully designed extension to an existing dance studio for the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, on the School’s Violet Needham Chapel site. The School occupies two sites in a listed building and a locally listed building facing each other across St Margaret’s Drive. The two sites were extended in the early 2000s to provide specialist dance studio accommodation.
Lavra House / Ricardo Azevedo Arquitecto
Casa de Lavra is the reflection of the relation that architecture can create between the space and the client. No house is the same and, in this one in particular, the architect Ricardo Azevedo realised that he drew the project “enthusiastically at the site”. The sooner the architect knew the reality and the people, the quicker the lines slid from the sketch to the execution, without intermediate stages.
Hamilton Road / Magri Williams Architects
Magri Williams has renovated and extended a family house in South London. The project was designed to be completed in two stages. Firstly a full house renovation; and secondly, and a year after the completion of the previous stage, a side extension.
Wheatland House / Tom Robertson Architects
Wheatland House is a warm, light-filled home in a quiet, tree-lined suburban neighborhood. The brief is one familiar to the practice: balance the heritage constraints of an original house (in this case, Edwardian-era) with the needs of a growing family. The clients also developed a sensory direction that would make the house feel calming and soft to the touch.
Etapa Vila Mascote School / Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos
The Brazilian architecture office Biselli Katchborian Arquitetos, led by the architects Artur Katchborian and Mario Biselli, is responsible for the new retrofit and expansion project of Etapa School, in a building originally designed in 1984 by the Brazilian architect Paulo Bastos in São Paulo (Brazil).