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Photo essay by Fabio Bascetta

This house, located in the city of Ghent, was developed in order to provide a generous and spacious family home on a very narrow plot. The various residential functions are stacked in split levels around a central staircase. This strengthens the relation

The 199m2 retrofitted barn sits within a 25-acre site of green fields and is part of a wider long-term strategy, which is being developed by the clients and the practice, to regenerate and rewild the secluded site, turning an agricultural relic into the h

Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2019. First Prize This is a house for our mothers, both of whom always wanted to have bigger families and bigger houses in which to live together as families. Really, it is a house for any kind of big family, wh

The renovation of this double fronted federation house uses a series of considered openings and a carefully positioned addition to maximise the size and feel through connection to outdoor spaces. At the front of the site, the original brick section of the

For years, since the closure for security reasons of the old Alcalá Church -finally demolished in 2011-, the residents of the Alcalá neighborhood have tried to favor the reconstruction of the lost temple which was under the invocation of the Virgin of Can

The program —mixing social and free market housing in coexistence and without differences—demands practically the consumption of the available building volume. This constraint, together with the demands for efficiency and simplicity that we impose on ours

The Federal House provides a vessel through which to enable habitation and the ongoing experience of a particular place and time. Within the folding hills of its hinterland site, the home acts as both experiential container for this place and as a conditi

The project consists of a very basic structure of columns and slabs. The slabs are built in the shape of one or several shells. The floor and the ceiling create a series of spaces changing from concave to convex and back again. Throughout the building, th

With its slender shape and compelling design, Sebastian Brandner’s house on the outskirts of Dornbirn makes a strong statement.

We told ourselves, that we’re going to let the space stand out and work just with it. We want these huge open volumes, because it’s all about having that airy space. About seeing from one side of the apartment to another. About feeling of openness and sim

“San Riemo” is the first housing project realised by the KOOPERATIVE GROSSSTADT, a housing cooperative founded in 2015. The building, located on the outskirts of Munich close to its trade fair, was completed in December 2020. It contains 27 flats as well

Baja Club entails a 32–room lifestyle hotel for hoteliers Grupo Habita located on a beautiful plot of coastal promenade in the historic centre of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Blending old with new, the 3623 m2 project –designed by Mexico City base

Japanese magazines report that the Metabolist masterpiece, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972, may disappear in the next few weeks.

Tambacounda Hospital is the largest hospitals in eastern Senegal. It serves the city’s 80,000 inhabitants and more than a million people from the region. Twenty doctors treat 20,000 patients per year under very difficult conditions. The region suffers fro

The Startup Lions Campus is an information and communication technologies (ICT) campus, located on the banks of Lake Turkana, Kenya. The project responds to the pressing challenge of youth unemployment faced in the region by offering high-level training a

This housing project is part of a new neighbourhood on the site of a former barracks. The master plan of the Bayernkaserne is conceived as an orthogonal grid, defining an urban landscape of large blocks. The building is organised around a garden and has a

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With its thoughtful design, Blok N adds high quality social housing to the heritage listed Jeruzalem neighbourhood. We wanted to give a new view on social housing, one focused on high quality and adding an unexpected layer of beauty.
 Blok N completes the

The 40 subsidised housings are divided over 2 oblong volumes that are oriented from the north to the south, resulting in an east-west orientation for the housings themselves. The small low volume is four-storey high and holds 8 duplex flats with private g

In 2018 the freelancing sculptural artist Ms. Monika Rienössl decided to return to the place she grew up and to renovate the abandoned house along the main street of the small village of Neuaigen in Lower Austria which was in a bad state of repair. For d

The latest addition to Copenhagen-based NORRØN’s body of work is Åstrup Have - a new recreational farmhouse gazing at Haderslev Fjord and built upon the dream of the countryside. Coined around concepts of biodynamic food production, freely grazing animal

The place is an old work yard, typical for Basel and the quarter. It is one of the few city blocks that has never been completely closed by buildings in the course of its history. This encouraged us to let the building, as it were, peep out of the courtya

The Wiener Werkbundsiedlung is located in the city district of Hietzing on the western edge of Vienna.

Villa Beer (1929-1930) was designed by Josef Frank and Oskar Wlach, many believe it is on par with other important Modernist buildings by architects such as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Adolf Loos. I first became aware of Josef Frank's work last year when there was a show at the f a

We had the opportunity to acquire a property at a very favorable price in a prominent location in the village of Berin- gen in Klettgau. We wanted to use this to implement our idea of architecture by means of a replacement building. In order for this to s

The threatening framework of a village barn is replaced by a new agricultural shed clad in polycarbonate. The large volume free of any carrier is preserved, without the penumbra. An intermediate floor is then created: a dense frame of turned columns and t

The existing shop is a former dwelling which seems odd amongst the commercial area big boxes. The program of the operation is no less ambiguous, as it merges commercial and ritual purposes. A generic box wraps the dwelling and its extensions, doubling the