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Hunter Office Architecture uses Hindu “science of architecture” to arrange British Columbia house

October 20, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Canadian firm Hunter Office Architecture has built a stilted concrete house with ample glazing, which has a layout influenced by a traditional Hindu organisational system. Located in Britannia Beach, a small town north of Vancouver, the secluded Stilt House was designed using guidelines from the Hindu system known as Vastu shastra – which translates as

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Hunter Office Architecture uses Hindu “science of architecture” to arrange British Columbia house

October 20, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Canadian firm Hunter Office Architecture has built a stilted concrete house with ample glazing, which has a layout influenced by a traditional Hindu organisational system. Located in Britannia Beach, a small town north of Vancouver, the secluded Stilt House was designed using guidelines from the Hindu system known as Vastu shastra – which translates as

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Laura Dewe Matthews creates spaces for birdwatching and painting in London home of a retired couple

October 20, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Architect Laura Dewe Matthews has added a staggered red brick extension to a London house, as part of a renovation that involved creating spaces for the clients’ various hobbies. The clients, a retired couple in their 70s and 80s, specified that they wanted to remodel their semi-detached Edwardian house in Barnes, west London, to accommodate

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Zaha Hadid’s amenity spaces for 520 West 28th shown in new photos

October 19, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Communal spaces available to the future residents of Zaha Hadid Architects’ 520 West 28th project in New York’s Chelsea are revealed in these images, which show a skylit swimming pool, a striated IMAX theatre and a bright gymnasium. As the 11-storey condo building nears completion and the last of the 39 luxury residences wait to be sold,

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Feldman Architecture incorporates garage-door windows into California home

October 19, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

Glazed garage doors surround this wood-clad residence by US firm Feldman Architecture in California’s Sonoma Valley, an area that was recently devastated by wild fires. The home is situated on a 40-acre (16-hectare) property in Healdsburg, a small town on the Russian River, in the heart of the state’s winemaking region. The area suffered major

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Pre-cast concrete staircase forms centrepiece of basement extension by Studio Octopi

October 19, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This south London house extension by Studio Octopi features a pre-cast concrete staircase that had to be craned into position. London-based Studio Octopi designed the zinc-clad basement extension for a four-bedroom terraced property in Wandsworth, to provide the owners with a guest bedroom, a shower room, a utility room and a playroom. The original building is typical of Victorian and Edwardian properties constructed in compact

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Terracotta-toned tiles divide Vilnius apartment into two contrasting halves

October 18, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Dezeen promotion: terracotta-coloured tiles by manufacturer Agrob Buchtal help to carve up this dwelling in Lithuania’s capital, creating cool and warm-toned areas. Located in Vilnius’ old town, Bazillion is an apartment designed by local practice YCL Studio for a client who frequently travels and wanted a place to stay during short stints in the city. The apartment,

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Tighe Architecture creates sculptural grey apartment building for LA’s Filipinotown

October 18, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Jagged rooflines, slot windows and grey cladding define this urban housing complex by California studio Tighe Architecture, which occupies a full Los Angeles city block. Called 2510 Temple, the apartment complex is located in the historic Filipinotown district, just west of Downtown LA. Offering both market-rate and affordable apartments, the development is intended to help address

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Arigho Larmour Wheeler Architects completes “purposefully imperfect” woodland home in Dublin

October 16, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

This family home in Dublin features uneven blockwork walls and a terracotta-clad sloping roof, to help it match an Arts and Crafts-style neighbour.  The 165-square-metre property was designed for Mark Arigho, one of the three founders of Dublin- and Belfast-based Arigho Larmour Wheeler Architects. It is built in the garden of his in-laws’ house, in a patch of woodland

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Martin Fenlon merges architectural styles for house in Los Angeles

October 16, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

The 1920s bungalows and 1950s modernist buildings found across Los Angeles influenced locally based Martin Fenlon Architecture when designing this house for one of the city’s conservation areas. The Brucato House is located in LA’s Highland Park-Garvanza district. Northeast of Downtown, the area is the largest of the city’s Historic Preservation Overlay Zones (HPOZ) –

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