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'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

The town hall wanted to offer its inhabitants family gardens, 53 plots of land (phase 1) where everyone cultivates what he wants. This place is nevertheless collective and vector of social link. The creation of a hall is therefore associated with the proj

Tapachula Railway Station was inaugurated at the beginning of the 20th Century; with an eclectic and art deco appearance that by the seventies would become modernist. In October 2005, Hurricane “Stan” collapsed the rail system in several sections, making

The school is located in the village centre of Geluwe, and offers special primary education to pupils with mental disabilities and with emotional and/or behavioural problems. The programme for the school building provides for administrative classrooms, sa

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

‘Tondo’ is a footbridge in the centre of Brussels that connects the offices of the Chamber of Representatives with its recent extension, the Forum building, on the other side of the street. The bridge was explicitly designed as a spatial element rather th

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

Moon Ra is a vernacular structure built to dance around the fire. The large circular roof embraces the festival goers and offers a temporary shelter for unexpected and wild behavior. Around the fire pit, the absence of a dance floor leaves the bare feet o

Multi-species architecture Eva, Carlos, two Belgian Malinois – Bicho and Bomba –, Harris the owl, five swift families, six kestrel families and twenty sparrows, are all companion species. They live and learn together in this building, thirty kilometres we

Geneva architecture practice Jaccaud Spicher Architectes Associés has led a phased renovation of the listed, modernist housing complex Le Lignon; restoring its original identity and retaining its patina and original materials, while reconditioning the fa

Do postupně se rozrůstající čtvrti v belgických Antverpách usadil místní ateliér b-architecten dva podlouhlé domy se čtyřiceti dotovanými byty. Kromě návrhu sam...

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

It is the former site of Shanghai Power Station Auxiliary Equipment Works East Building. The design aims to preserve the wildness, freshness, nature and downshifting character of the site by adopting the concept of limited disturbance. The existing campho

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

Conceived as a pavilion for community dialogue on nature, food and farming, the Green Agora allows native plants to grow on its modular aluminium structure and steel meshes. Located at Ground Up Initiative’s Kampong Kampus since the 2020 Singapore Archife

The purpose of this extension is the incorporation of a walkway and staircase that unifies the two volumes that make up the San Agustin school, located less than 2 km from the Natural Park of Puntas Entinas-Sabinar in the plasticized landscape of western

In the heart of the density of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, this seven storey housing building atempts to find a balance between a discreet presence in the Parisian street, and an intentionally contemporary architectural style. By its shape and its lo

The shed serving the orchard, with the exception of the two-pitch corrugated metal roof supported by metal trusses, is an all-wood structure resting on seven reinforced concrete beams placed transversally. Its main function is to support two water tanks f

There are many reasons why we can find plant species inside an architectural space and in almost every one of them is evident the desire of architecture to differentiate itself from the plant and reduce it, at best, to ornamentation contained in an autono

Residential complex project grouped around a central internal street, which once again employs the geometrical methodology of combining cubic volumes in space. While in Walden-7 the cubes were constructed in two floor units, in the Petite Cathédrale they

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The project is located in the heart of the Boveresses district in the north of Lausanne. This district is composed of several emblematic housing complexes from the 1970s. The project aims at an integration in this context w

The uniqueness of this project lies in the site’s double frontage, allowing the program to be spread between two towers: each has a main façade, looking onto Barranca del Muerto and José María Ibarrarán streets. Inside, a space contains the vertical circu

The brickworks, that is run today by the Brickworks Museum, is the only intact surviving handmade brickworks in German-speaking Switzerland. The listed ensemble consists of a timber brick-drying shed, a kiln, that may no longer be operated, the biotope of

The old building is hidden in the city centre. It has three levels, three entrance doors and a distorted outline. Each floor suggests a different spatial logic but shares the same language, the same materiality and the same set of banal elements. The gro

As the project takes place into a 1850s carpentry, the main focus is to showcase the qualities of the existing building; a remarkable construction for its volume and materials. The layout places the open-plan kitchen at the heart of the space, standing ag

The site of the former Bötzow Brewery is situated within walking distance of Berlin’s Alexanderplatz and Friedrichshain public park. Since its initial opening in 1885, the Bötzow family attached great importance to the running of a modern brewery. This

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From September 25, 2021, the museum will throw open its doors to visitors once again. With the presentation of works from the Ströher Collection across an additional 2,500 m2 of space, the MKM is set to become a central venue for German and European post