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What better excuse for a gargantuan exhibition based around play than a name change and a shop relocation? Last month Mikiya Kobayashi created a play...

Built by Buero Wagner in Munich, Germany with date 2013. Images by Simon and Sebastian Schels . Sex on the Beach, Cosmopolitan, White Russian. A cocktail bar is usually rated by the quality of the classic drinks (...

Completed in 2017 in Cordoba, Argentina. Images by Gonzalo Viramonte. “Casas Catalinas” are family homes located in Rio Ceballos, along the Córdoba mountain range and away from the city. They set up in 5000 square-foot...

Completed in 2016 in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Images by Onnis Luque. The project of L residence derives from the need to create a new connection to the dormitories of an existing dwelling in the Valle de Bravo, in a...

I used to live in Paris in a 6th floor walk up on the Rue Montmarte in Les Halles. It was four tiny rooms at the top of a rickety stair with two...

Completed in 2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Images by Cristobal Palma. The realized work for the Núñez family consisted of the transformation of an old apartment into a contemporary urban home. The project resumes four...

Construido en 2013 en Ciudad de México, México. Imagenes por Onnis Luque. En medio de Nonoalco Mixcoac, una colonia tradicional, céntrica, bien conectada y explotada por recientes desarrollos de infintos departamentos se...

Completed in 2016 in Otsu, Japan. Images by Yuta Yamada. This house was built in the newly-developed subdivision surrounding new housing. While planning a design with client many times, we hit upon a...

Located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, the house in Utsunomiya is completely surrounded by a metal roof, sheltering terraces and a garden so the residents can use these spaces throughout the year. Japanese studio Suppose Design Office developed an exterior covered in strips of white-painted Galvalume, a coated steel sheeting, lined in Japanese cedar wood.

Dyvik Kahlen Architects is a London based office run by Christopher Dyvik and Max Kahlen. Established in 2010, the office works on projects in England, Germany, Holland and Norway. Recently the office has completed the exhibition design for ‘Magnificent Obsessions’ at the Barbican Art Gallery, a low-cost artist studio underneath a viaduct in Muswell Hill, a refurbishment of the Walther König Bookshop at Whitechapel Art Gallery and a live/work studio for an artist and his family in Kilburn, North London. Projects currently in planning or construction include a penthouse in cologne, two new a...

Completed in 2009 in Parma, Italy. Images by Mauro Davoli. The new Temple of Cremation in Parma is located north of the Valera Cemetery, between this one and the newly built ring road, approximately one...

In 1986, Peter Zumthor completed one of his first projects: a shelter over an Ancient Roman archaeological site in Chur, (Graubünden, Switzerland).

Completed in 2015 in Tân Bình, Vietnam. Images by Thiet Vu. The project relates to refurbishment of a house modestly located alongside one of Sai Gon alleys. The site confines itself to 2.5 m depth and 6.5 m...

Renier Chalon

Team Architects : Benjamin Lafore, Sébastien Martinez Barat, Robin Durand Landscape : Camille Frechou Photography : Maxime Delvaux Urban house from the 19th century, La Brigantine consists of a closed garden, a remarkable facade and a succession of rooms distributed on three levels. At the ground floor, a clear concrete surface organizes people, objects and plants on the whole ground. Outside, vague forms organize entrance sequence and surfaces for uses. Inside, the extruded forms support curated objects. These areas polarize the ground of the house. White metal structures generate added ro...

Completed in 2017 in København, Denmark. Images by Hampus Berndtson, Victor Johansson. The project is the winning proposal by Krupinski/Krupinska Arkitekter in the open international competition for a new pavilion in the King´s Garden...

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Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter designed this summer house with a dramatic scooped roofline for an island in the Stockholm archipelago.

Completed in 2016 in Setúbal, Portugal. Images by Fernando Guerra | FG+SG. This house is located in a small village in Azeitao, south of Lisbon. Protected by hills from the Atlantic Ocean, the area has a mild Mediterranean...

Built by Antonini + Darmon Architectes in Nantes, France with date 2014. Images by Alexandre Wasilewski. After the fashion of the general conversion of the Nantes block, our architecture exploits the special elements of it...