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Smartvoll creates stone spa as “a 21st-century temple of relaxation”

March 8, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

The floor plan for a private spa by Smartvoll

Architecture studio Smartvoll has completed a private spa in the Austrian village of Hinterbrühl with vertical and horizontal stone blocks used to enclose itss various functional zones. The spa pavilion, which is connected to a villa built at the turn of the 20th century by a tunnel, was designed by Vienna-based Smartvoll ito be “a 21st-century temple of

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Morrow + Lorraine completes Clifftops luxury lodges on England’s Jurassic Coast

February 13, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

London studio Morrow + Lorraine has completed a group of five seaside holiday homes in Dorset, England, featuring stone dividing walls that resemble the irregular surface of the nearby cliff face. The Clifftops development comprises five lodges designed by Morrow + Lorraine for a site within the Pennsylvania Castle Estate, which is located on the

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Giordano Hadamik Architects builds hillside Villa Nemes using stone excavated on site

January 15, 2021 Amy Frearson 0

Front window at Villa Nemes by Giordano Hadamik Architects

The walls of this Italian villa, designed by Giordano Hadamik Architects, are formed of natural stone excavated from the home’s site. Villa Nemes is partially embedded into the Ligurian landscape. To help it merge with its setting, its architects chose to clad the exterior walls with a material that was readily available to them. With

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Feilden Fowles adds pointed arch extension to Carlisle Cathedral’s fratry

January 11, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

The extension of The Fratry at Carlisle Cathedral by Feilden Fowles

Feilden Fowles has refurbished the medieval dining hall at Carlisle Cathedral in north-west England and extended it with a red sandstone entrance pavilion. Befittingly called The Fratry, the name for a priory refectory, the overhaul makes the 16th-century listed building publicly accessible for the first time. Feilden Fowles converted the hall and its vaulted undercroft into

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Large And Elegant Rustic Living Spaces

October 21, 2020 HD Staff 0

Rustic elegance washes through these four large home designs, characterised by calming neutrals, tactile stone and rugged rustic features. Architectural archways and great columns build grandeur under classic wooden ceiling beams. Ancient stone masonry is laid bare to expose the history and age of the buildings, cracks and all, in perfect imperfection. Modern pieces counterbalance […]

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Neasden Temple is built from over 5,000 tonnes of hand-carved stone

September 22, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Still of Open House London's short film on Neasden Temple

The next Open House London documentary offers a glimpse of Neasden Temple, a place of worship in northwest London that was built using ancient Hindu texts and 26,000 pieces of stone. Filmed by Jim Stephenson, the documentary is one of nine videos that will feature on Dezeen throughout Open House London 2020 to shine a

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K Studio creates stone holiday home on Mykonos overlooking the Aegean Sea

May 3, 2020 India Block 0

Stone and whitewashed walls surround a holiday home on the Greek island of Mykonos designed by K Studio, which has a tree poking through its shady wooden pergolas. Greek architecture practice K Studio built the six-bedroom Villa Mandra for a young couple to entertain their family and friends during the summer. Three simple volumes sit

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Microscape uses stone-filled cages to update Italian cemetery

April 30, 2020 India Block 0

Cemetery Castel San Gimignano has been renovated by Italian architecture studio Microscape using local limestone stacked in metal baskets. The church of Castel di San Gimignano, a medieval town in the Tuscan countryside, was built before the 14th century. Microscape, a studio based in Lucca, designed the update to its cemetery with as light a

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Building Beyond Borders uses stone and earth to build Women’s House Ouled Merzoug

April 24, 2020 India Block 0

Women's House Ouled Merzoug nby Building Beyond Borders

Architecture students collaborated with a women’s group in Morocco to design and build a community centre out of stone and earth in the village of Ouled Merzoug. Two volumes of granite and adobe brick sit at the intersection of two shortcuts, one leading to the village centre and the other to its schools. Called Women’s

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Elisabeth Polzella creates structural-stone covered market in Lamure-Sur-Azergues

April 22, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Lamure-Sur-Azergues covered market by Elisabeth Polzella

French architect Elisabeth Polzella has built a covered market from structural stone and timber for the town of Lamure-Sur-Azergues in the Rhône region of central France. Built alongside Lamure-Sur-Azergues’ town hall, the open-sided building is designed to host the weekly market and to be a gathering place for the people of the town. The simple market

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