La Facade / diederendirrix architects
From an urban planning point of view, the east side of the square in the station district in Den Bosch lacked a clear boundary. diederendirrix designed a closed perimeter block for the location both to define the volume of the square and to gesture towards the station and the palace district which lies behind... read more
Mint Street Peabody Housing / Pitman Tozer Architects
Mint Street, a new-build development designed by Pitman Tozer Architects for Peabody, provides 67 new homes for rent, shared ownership and private sale. Replacing a single-storey of light industrial units and a car park, the new £11m development is located on a busy urban site alongside a railway... read more
Raakspoort / Bolles+Wilson
Transformative processes, particularly those relating to delicate fine-grained historic cities like Haarlem are complex and protracted. In the case of the Raaks project it took more than ten years to evolve from the considered Urban Masterplan (Donald Lambert - Kraaijvanger Urbis) through a sequence of... read more
Villa Hendrikx / 70F architecture
The commission (September 2007) consisted of a detached house on a plot in residential area Overgooi in Almere, at the foot of the Gooimeer dike. The family wanted, except for transparency and privacy, a strong integration of the plot with the building as opposed to a block on a mound. The house is... read more
House LB Piura / Riofrio+Rodrigo Arquitectos
The house is located in northern Peru, near the equator, in the city of Piura. Intense heat is an important factor when designing for this area. This particular external characteristic impacts how the home’s inhabitants use conventional spaces. We observe that the terrace is the most important... read more
A House For All Seasons / John Lin
Shijia Village is located in Shaanxi province, in northwestern China. Development in rural areas such as Shijia, typically abandons traditional styles in favor of more generic housing types. This is partly the result of the area’s gradual shift away from economic self-reliance: as labor tends to migrate toward... read more
Brick Wall House / 123DV Modern Villas
The location of this residence is highly exceptional: flanked by small-scale detached semi-classical houses with gabled roofs on one side, a large apartment block planned on the other. The client wanted his dwelling to provide maximum privacy. The house represents the transition... read more
BEGO - Benozzo Gozzoli Museum / Massimo Mariani
It was necessary to make a building to house two tabernacles of master Benozzo Gozzoli with its sinopie, which waited a long time in the civic library for definitive fitting. To do this, in the historic center of Castelfiorentino, a building of the'60s has been demolished... read more
Triburg Headquarters / S.P.A Design
The project aims at recreating the transparencies of the Adalaj stepwell and the terraces of the mythical hanging gardens of Babylone in a contemporary manner for an office building. The footprint of the building consist of a... read more
"Khamsa" House / Atelier Koe
From the architect: "Khamsa", the eye in the hand, recognized as a sign of protection is the symbol we played with in the design process. The project concept revolves around the notion of connexion and transition, from inner to outer, from light to... read more
