Housing

In 1788 Captain Cook and his fleet entered the delta of the Hawkesbury and the sheltered bay of Sydney. At the entrance of the Dyirabun (Hawkesbury) River, he was first welcomed by the Darug People who had been living on these banks since the beginning of

Designed by Nori Architects for a young family with children, Minimum House located on a narrow plot in Toyota, Japan, introduces a new prototype of urban housing on a limited budget.

The Riverside Tower is a high-rise development from the early 70s designed by Leon Stynen & Paul De Meyer, beautifully situated in the bend of the river Scheldt, a stone’s throw from the city center of Antwerp. It’s here, on the 13th floor, that found

2100 meters above sea level. El Retiro, Colombia A house as of two separate structures linked by a path and a large garden in a forest clearing. What could have been a single larger house was planned as dispersed volumes positioned in a steep slope, each

Located between Ghent's inner ring road and a nature reserve, the request was to replace an decayed residential block with 44 ground-level homes. However, the structure of this building still has great potential. It is proposed to thoroughly renovate and

A multi-family building with five apartments and two commercial spaces located in the Poblenou neighborhood, in Barcelona. The project, located on a corner lot with irregular geometry, is solved by placing the cylindrical vertical communications core in t

Airhouse has designed the reinforced concrete home as a single-story building that allows a smooth connection between indoors and outdoors.

With Haus S, a couple from Berlin wanted to realize their vision of a house that grows. Planned in a first step as a holiday home on a small budget, at a later stage it was to be expanded into a retirement residence. Under a roof that was conceived as a k

House Hh shows how the realisation of a new house goes hand in hand with the enhancement of the surrounding landscape. At the start of the project the main aim was to offer a maximum view of the surroundings and yet creating a place where the residents ca

In Kitami, a city just east of Hokkaido in Japan, local firm Jun Igarashi Architects has designed a unique building that houses both a store...

Repair over Replace ‘…the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life — the light and the air, which vary continually’. Claude Monet This 250 sqm historic apartment consists of a majestic corner suite of rooms remained largely unchanged from their original a

This is a plan for a five-story, 25-unit apartment complex designed in Miyakojima City, Okinawa Prefecture. Each unit is a one-bedroom and consists of a general-purpose plan. The common space consists of an elevator, a staircase and a shared hallway, thes

Copenhagen office LETH & GORI was part of the project Stubberupgaard, which involved the transformation, renovation, and new construction of a total of 44 sheltered apartments for citizens suffering from mental illness set within landscaped courtyards

At the intersection of art and nature, Gutshof Güldenhof is Berlin-based architecture studio HEIM BALP ARCHITEKTEN’s latest completion conceived for and in close collaboration with Vietnamese-born Danish conceptual artist Danh Vo (b.1975). Located in the

A retreat where walls “wander” On an ocean front mountain top between tall grasses and acacia forests, rugged curvaceous walls blur the boundaries between architecture and landscape to define public and private spaces of an 8 room retreat. The retreat, th

“l'existence précède l'essence” It has been a long time since colorless and odorless minimalism has become power in Korean architecture or design. I am amazed at the finish and the way it is made, but if I look at it, there is something uncomfortable abou

Eulalia is part of a project series called

The Chalet Hentsch was built in 1904 for a railway engineer, Paul-Auguste Hentsch, who was responsible for the construction of part of the Martigny-Chamonix line, which runs through the Trient valley. Located halfway along the section concerned, between t

Architecture studio Neiheiser Argyros has overhauled a 1970s vacant villa on the Greek coast, which features a concrete roof with a pair of arches that frame views towards the sea.

At the junction between Pflersch and Wipptal, a little above the center of Gossensaß village (1,100m above sea level), Pedevilla Architects designed the home of a young family. The monolithic structure, which evolves primarily into the vertical while foll

'Big Space Little Space' by Davidson Rafailidis is the low-budget adaptive re-use of a masonry garage built in the 1920s, where the main aim is to treat the space as a dynamic and ever-evolving space.

A Sense of Publicness Embodied by an Old House The project is a renovation of a house in Kyoto originally built around a hundred years ago, inherited and lived in from generation to generation. The site consisted of a rich garden that had been maintained

This wooden house scrupulously chooses its land, its exposure, its height, and its references (from Japanese architecture to Californian Case Study Houses) to revisit the archetype of the country house. A place in which you live in carefree and unconfined

On the hilltop of the lateral moraine between Sihltal and Wollishofen lies the Bellariarain with a view of Lake Zurich. The impressive tree population originates from the Belt Walk, which framed a mansion at the beginning of the 20th century. After the Se

Shota Nakanishi - Detached house, Kanazawa 2019. Photos © Shinkenchiku-Sha. [[MORE]]

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Between the Coll hill and the Carmel hill of Barcelona, on one side of the upper course of the old Farigola stream, Pere Llobet and Portell streets lead us to one of the back entrances to Park Güell. The house aims to frame and close off a piece of air a

This compact single-storey office building of a local company has been designed starting from the renovation and the reuse of a centenary wooden house located in Shimada, a village in the Shizuoka Prefecture in the central south coast of Japan. The renova