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Eight Australian houses with sculptural shapes and angular facades

September 23, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Our latest roundup showcases innovative Australian homes, including a house with a fish-pond atrium and a residence with a faceted black-metal extension. Mostly located in Melbourne and Sydney, these eight homes are united by their sculptural designs. While some have unusually shaped floorplans, others use detailed facades, cantilevers, roof cutouts and geometrical aluminium awnings to

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Translucent skin wraps “house within a house” in rural New Zealand

September 22, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio DCA Architects of Transformation has wrapped a translucent skin of corrugated polycarbonate panels around this holiday lodge in New Zealand. Located in South Waikato overlooking Lake Whakamaru, the home was designed for the studio’s director Daryl Church, which led to its name of The Chodge – a portmanteau of Church and lodge. The

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Eight characterful kitchens with sleek metal details

September 22, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Our latest lookbook focuses on eight homes fitted with metal kitchens, from a flat in London informed by fish-and-chip shops to a 19th-century apartment with period details in Paris. While stainless steel has long been a material associated with restaurant kitchens due to its durability and functionality, it can bring a sleek, modern feel to residential

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Eight characterful kitchens with sleek metal details

September 22, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Our latest lookbook focuses on eight homes fitted with metal kitchens, from a flat in London informed by fish-and-chip shops to a 19th-century apartment with period details in Paris. While stainless steel has long been a material associated with restaurant kitchens due to its durability and functionality, it can bring a sleek, modern feel to residential

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Eight home kitchens finished with tactile brick floors

September 21, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

Our latest lookbook collects eight houses from around the world that feature kitchens with tactile brick floors, including a mid-century home in the USA and a coastal dwelling in Denmark. Widely used for their durability and low maintenance, bricks are a long-time favourite material across the fields of architecture, interiors and design. They are most

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“Holl showing again his mastery of residential housing” says commenter

September 20, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a housing project with a snaking form called Meander, completed by US studio Steven Holl Architects in Helsinki, Finland. The 180-metre-long housing project comprises 115 unique apartments across eight floors, with a curved concrete structure lined with wood and glazing, framing views of a series of open

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Mary Arnold-Forster Architects extends Applecross Schoolhouse in Scotland

September 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Mary Arnold-Forster Architects has updated an old schoolhouse in Scotland, adding two slate-clad extensions designed to contrast its original sandstone structure. Named Applecross Schoolhouse, the stone building was originally constructed in 1875 as a home for the head teacher of the adjacent Applecross School. While the school itself remains operational, the house now functions

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Rifugio Petrarca Stettiner Hut / Area Architetti

September 19, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

Location and Premises – The Hut is located at 2875 m above sea level. The refuge is the starting point for tours to some of the highest peaks of the region. The original hut was built between 1895 and 1897. The hut, which is now owned by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano in South Tyrol, was built in its penultimate form in 1992 and was badly damaged by an avalanche in February 2014. Following these events, an international planning competition was organized to draw up a preliminary project for the new hut. Due to the existing, still functional infrastructural development, the shelter was to be rebuilt on the site of the destroyed building.

CPlus Architects uses pale bricks for “rustic” home in rural China

September 18, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Pale brick, stone and timber were used to create a “rustic and warm feeling” at this home in rural China, designed by local studio CPlus Architects. Named Mother’s House, the home is located in Xiyang Village southwest of Beijing, and was designed by CPlus Architects to demonstrate the potential of often overlooked rural areas outside

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RIBA reveals UK’s best affordable housing for 2024

September 18, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

The revamp of a 1960s estate and a stepped brick terrace on an infill site feature on the 2024 shortlist for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Neave Brown Award for Housing. A neighbourhood with 235 socially rented homes also features on the four-strong shortlist, alongside apartments tailored to older residents on a vacant brownfield

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