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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

From energy to technology through architectural quality and experimentation Milan is enhanced by a new intervention of industrial architectural restoration aimed at accommodating the Digital Factory of Luxottica, a world leader in the eyewear market. Than

O’DonnellBrown has designed and built a prototype for an outdoor Community Classroom: an adaptable, demountable learning environment for schools and community groups, which employs a functional, rhythmic geometry and design. The entirely self-initiated pr

the design by johansen skovsted includes landscaping and the creation of a new structure to provide a leisure and community space for residents.

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Studio Vulkan Landschaftsarchitektur: Today the urban dweller searches for increasingly powerful experiences of „landscape“ and „nature“ in shrinking territories on the edge of town. It has become the charge of the landscape architect to look for new languages which at once immerse us in the sensations of landscape while providing functional space for recreational uses. […]

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...

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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

The rehabilitation of the former Rotation Workshops was guided by a desire to restore, with respect, this built heritage that reflects the history of the site and the town, in line with the programming desired by the Municipality of Verson (cultural centr

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

The metamorphosis of the Montréal Insectarium redesigns our relationship with insects. The Metamorphosis of the Montréal Insectarium has been completed. Nestled alongside the Biodôme and botanical gardens in Espace pour la vie*, the city's district of nat

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

In the outskirts of Santiago, Chile’s capital, Max Núñez Arquitectos have united plant cultivation and architectural sophistication in a minimalist floating cuboid pavilion. With its...

“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

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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.

The public space is the place of relationships, memory and future remembrance. It´s the place where citizens should enjoy the shared space. Located in the center of the city of Palencia, a large number of unfortunate interventions have taken place in Jard

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

Atelier XYZ has recently captured the Great Cretto (Cretto di Burri), which is a landscape artwork undertaken by Alberto Burri in 1984 and left unfinished in 1989, based on the old city of Gibellina.

'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.