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Jean Verville incorporates “golden ribbon” into Montreal apartment for music composer

August 29, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian architect Jean Verville has combined minimalism with theatrics in this dwelling for a musician, which features brass walls, raw concrete beams and an all-white bathroom sheathed in marble. Called IN 3, the project entailed the conversion of a 160-square-metre apartment into a residence for a music composer. Verville, who runs an eponymous Montreal-based studio,

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Jean Verville incorporates “golden ribbon” into Montreal apartment for music composer

August 29, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Canadian architect Jean Verville has combined minimalism with theatrics in this dwelling for a musician, which features brass walls, raw concrete beams and an all-white bathroom sheathed in marble. Called IN 3, the project entailed the conversion of a 160-square-metre apartment into a residence for a music composer. Verville, who runs an eponymous Montreal-based studio,

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HGR Arquitectos uses orange bricks to build Mexico City apartment block

August 28, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Brickwork panels alternate with gaps up the sides of this housing project in Mexico City, which local firm HGR Arquitectos has organised around a line of patios at the centre. Named after a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the Emiliano Zapata 167 apartment block is located in the sprawling city’s south-central Portales Norte neighbourhood.

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Samsel Architects builds house around ancient oak tree in North Carolina

August 28, 2017 Bridget Cogley 0

American firm Samsel Architects has built an L-shaped home for couple and their in-laws on a farm in North Carolina, using the area’s rural vernacular architecture to inform the design. Located in the rural town of Columbus, near the Blue Ridge Mountains, Hammock House is surrounded by dense woods and sits on 40 acres (16 hectares)

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OMA’s Park Grove towers in Miami shown in new renderings

August 28, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

This new set of images provides a closer look at the trio of towers designed by architecture firm OMA for Miami’s Coconut Grove. Currently under construction, the Park Grove development occupies the last open lot in the waterfront area south of Downtown Miami. It sits along Bay Shore Drive’s “wall of towers”, made up of

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Shelving units and concealed doors compartmentalise refurbished London home

August 28, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

William Tozer Associates has completed the renovation of a Victorian house in north London that involved rearranging the interior around a pair of double-height voids and introducing integrated storage elements to separate some of the spaces. The five-storey property forms part of a Victorian terrace in the Dartmouth Park area of Camden. William Tozer Associates sought to

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Shelving units and concealed doors compartmentalise refurbished London home

August 28, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

William Tozer Associates has completed the renovation of a Victorian house in north London that involved rearranging the interior around a pair of double-height voids and introducing integrated storage elements to separate some of the spaces. The five-storey property forms part of a Victorian terrace in the Dartmouth Park area of Camden. William Tozer Associates sought to

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Glazed corners peel back to allow sea breezes into Malan Vorster’s Cape Town house

August 27, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The living spaces of this seaside house in Cape Town are lined with sliding glass walls that can be pulled aside to connect the interiors with a series of external decks, patios and balconies overlooking the ocean. Clifton House was designed by local architecture firm Malan Vorster for a site in the suburb of Clifton,

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Recessed window creates bench between lounge and garden in Dublin house extension

August 27, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A large sliding window set into the end wall of this extension to a terraced house in Dublin by Irish practice Architectural Farm is enclosed within a wooden frame that provides internal and external seating. Local studio Architectural Farm was tasked with renovating the 1920s property and adding an extension that maximises the internal layout while also improving the

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Plasma Studio’s copper-clad apartment block has huge windows facing the Dolomites

August 27, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Floor-to-ceiling windows allow guests to wake up to views of the Dolomites at this complex of copper-clad holiday apartments in northern Italy by Plasma Studio. Architecture practice Plasma Studio designed the two-storey apartment block to provide six holiday homes accompanying an existing holiday residence. The two structures are joined by a single-storey volume, which hosts a communal area. Called Villa

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