Pavilion for Daelwijck Cemetery / Ingeborg Meulendijks
In the summer of 2017 a new memorial pavilion at the Utrecht cemetery Daelwijck, designed by artist Ingeborg Meulendijks was opened. The work, entitled ‘Dearest’, was commissioned by the Municipality of Utrecht. The reason for this was the wish... read more
Aban’s House / USE Studio
...it is not the first time we are starting a project, but this time is harder and more enjoyable! It is not always us who start but it is the client who has dreamt and has made his magical world and on some part we were added! Now it is us who is making a dream where we are going to live in, where our child is going to grow in, a dream which is going to be a home... read more
FmM House / BLAF Architects
Architecture has an influence on nature, and nature has an influence on our architecture. Art also influences our architecture. A sculpture forms the basis of this residential volume... read more
The Pool Shophouse / FARM and KD Architects
A boutique development involving a row of 1920s shophouses on a quaint street in Geylang, where eight conservation shophouses met seven local architects. The Series was initiated and executed by Pocket Projects, a boutique development consultancy... read more
Bricks Berlin Schöneberg / GRAFT
On the Hauptstrasse in Berlin Schöneberg GRAFT revitalized the historical post office premises, expanding it with two new buildings and converting the original rooftops for commercial purposes. Thus a 32,000m² modern ensemble accessible to the public was created comprising offices, restaurants, retail outlets and apartments... read more
Step House / Bureau de Change
Bureau de Change have reimagined the conventional terraced-house extension for a home in North London with an innovative addition that both celebrates and elevates the humble brick... read more
Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech / Studio KO
Since the beginning of Studio KO’s creation ten years ago, architects Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty have marked their influence through projects across Europe, the Americas and Africa. The creative duo embodies an eclectic spirit, approaching each project with a fresh perspective... read more
Pirouette House / Wallmakers
Located smack in the middle of an urban and crowded locale of Trivandrum, the site was a small plot that was being suffocated by other residential projects from all four sides. The idea of this residence was to have an inward facing house with all its spaces opening into a... read more
A modern barn / Kunkiewicz Architekci
The house was built on an old plot with preserved outbuildings and beautiful old trees. There were red brick buildings and a wooden barn on the site. The whole property is located on a spacious plot, surrounded by magnificent oaks and birches... read more
Tropical Cave / H&P Architects
Located in the center of BacNinh city, the house can accommodate an extended family of 4 generations. Its design is inspired by light and space effects, which resembles the "cave" style in a humid subtropical climate to bring about positive and vivid experiences to users’ senses... read more
Hñähñu Multimedia Center / Aldana Sánchez Architects
Above a rural house a new multipurpose room for technological services, the windows make a terraced viewpoint with Catalan vaults, herringbone walls and structural lattices. This hybrid construction integrates culture with production seeking to make a new modest destination in the site... read more
gjG House / BLAF architecten
gjG House is one of the experimental houses BLAF architecten is known for in Flanders and beyond. It is part of their research called ‘Brick Wall City’, that addresses the precise relationship between material, construction and the appearance of brick architecture... read more
Micro House / Sense Group
MICRODOM grows out of the cultural landscape of the Pszczyna land. The construction consists of two independent blocks: 1. The Tower, constituting a residential house and a place of family gatherings; 2. The Oxygen Garden, containing all the functions of the house... read more
CORE Modern Homes / Batay-Csorba Architects
CORE Modern Homes is a 16,000sf 7-unit townhouse development which explores the potential of spatially oriented apertures that work to induce movement and visual interest within an efficient volume which maximizes programmatic potential... read more
House S / S3NS ARCHITEKTURA
A single-family house in the countryside, located near Wrocław, was designed in 2009 and implemented in 2011. The author's assumption when creating the first stage - the house design - was to obtain a spacious living space, creating a coherent whole with the external integral veranda of the house and the garden... read more
Greenery Curtain House / HGAA
The house is built in Mao Khe, a growing area of urban and economic construction of Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. This land is also a mining center of mineral coal in Quang Ninh province. In the past this area had low environmental quality due to mining operations... read more
Hobhouse Court / Brisac Gonzalez with Arquitectonica
Located along one of Central London’s oldest thoroughfares connecting Leicester and Trafalgar Squares; Hobhouse is a mixed use development comprising residential, office, gallery and retail spaces and providing a vibrant, accessible environment designed to enhance the streetscape and preserve the historical surroundings... read more
Broken House / S3NS ARCHITEKTURA – IGOR KAZMIERCZAK
The house was designed in the borough of Oporów in Wrocław, in the historic area of the single-family houses. This residential district forms a special substance for Wrocław, because of its unique and characteristic house arrangement created by small buildings, sloped roof ridges and narrow house fronts... read more
Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum / Studio Zhu-Pei
Located in the center of historical area, the site of the Museum is adjacent to the Imperial Kiln ruins surrounding with many ancient kiln complexes. Jingdezhen is known as the "Porcelain Capital" in the world because it has been producing pottery for 1,700 years... read more
Westerschans 1A / Jeanne Dekkers Architectuur and Zoetmulder
This multifunctional apartment building contains a large supermarket, retail space, and 83 social rental homes, of which 13 are quay-side houses. Westerschans 1A is the first phase of the new residential, work and leisure area on the edge of central Goes... read more
Black Friars / Maccreanor Lavington
The development is located at St George's Circus in Central London, a strategic node, a focal point for connectivity, marking the confluence of 5 major routes to river crossings at Lambeth Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge and Southwark Bridge. It comprises five mixed-use buildings... read more
Miravalle House / Colectivo720 Architects
The house was designed under three main aspects: Formal aspects: the house from its initial stage, incorporated formal elements of the typology of the context, reaffirming its identity and belonging to the place.... read more
Wall house / CTA | Creative Architects
According to recently published scientific researches, indoor air quality is more polluted than the air outside. Therefore, most of our discussions with the client point to the idea of a house which is able to ‘breathe’ 24/7 by itself... read more
Nouveau Projet EN LIGNE / Open Architectes
Being in touch with the surrounding landscape while protecting yourself from the pedestrian path bordering the house is the major challenge for this house... read more
Wasp House / Tropical Space Co.,Ltd
Wasp House is a small house with the area of 3,5mx7m, in the community of Chinese-Vietnamese in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City. This house is built for 2 siblings with 2 floors, each floor is a bedroom... read more
HH 47 / JUMA architects
This house with adjacent office space is very special to JUMA, since it is the design of their own home. The fact that the plot is located away from the street appeals to them because of the lush surrounding greenery that creates an entirely private area. The long driveway leads to a cozy, welcoming inner court, bordered by three connected volumes. These consist of... read more
A Pet Paradise / Shilpa Architects Planners Designers Pvt. Ltd.
The clients are pet lovers and avid star gazers, and provided us the following brief “The garden is the focus, with a paradise for our pets, the house should feel incidental.” The home owners have a dozen pets, which are mostly rescued and rehabilitated dogs that freely roam and relax around the home and gardens... read more
Residential Complex in Butikovsky Lane, 5 / Sergey Skuratov Architects
This dwelling house is located in the very center of downtown Moscow. This area was nicknamed as “Golden Mile”. For local landscape the occupied territory is quite large, so the building couldn`t be made as a stressed sculptural landmark. Nobody wanted to contradict the local city logic... read more
Cubic Houses / ADEPT
ADEPTs completed Cubic Houses in Copenhagen, DK shows a playful residential complex that breaks down the scale of a large building volume while offering a generous variation to the in-progress development of a new neighbourhood... read more
Restaurant Cantina di David / Ir. Brendan Bakker
Design Brendan Bakker completes the transformation of Italian Fine Dining restaurant "Cantina di David" in the historic heart of Utrecht City. Located in a magical 13th century wharf cellar along the famous Oudegracht Canal. The special character of the cellar made it possible to... read more
Herman Teirlinck Building / Neutelings Riedijk Architects
The Herman Teirlinck building is located on the Havenlaan in Brussels, on the Tour & Taxis site. This historical site is characterised by monumental industrial buildings from the beginning of the last century, giving the new city district a characteristic appearance... read more
Changjiang Art Museum / Vector Architects
Changjiang Art Museum is located in Changjiang village at the northeast corner of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Similar to any other Chinese villages, this village was razed in 2016 to give way to the full speed urban development. The spatial context that once inscribed the memory of people’s everyday lives were deprived and fractured... read more
Residential complex on Novoalexeevskaya str. / Sergey Skuratov Architects
Brick is a very versatile material, it can have different texture, can make the building look in very different ways. It also works well with nature, with sky and sun, with different weather and light conditions. It is also very plastic, and has its character... read more
Theodora House / ADEPT
The historic Carlsberg Brewery site in Copenhagen has opened to the public to become part of the city - and is now seriously embarking on the successful transformation to a dense urban neighbourhood of its own, the Carlsberg City... read more
La Casa ByM / arzubialdes
The ByM House has been built on a 10x50m plot in Rosario Metropolitan Area. Pueblo Esther, commune located next to the Paraná River, 12 km south of the main city, whose origin and development can be related to another five houses for spending time on weekends... read more
Chuon Chuon Kim 2 Kindergarten / KIENTRUC O
The Chuon Chuon Kim 2 Kindergarten project was introduced to Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 as an educational environment that captivates and stimulates meaningful cross interactions amongst the children and the adult. Instilled within the school is an openness with a spark of curiosity that allows people of all ages to... read more
Harbour Houses / ADEPT and LUPLAU & POULSEN
Common greenhouses on the roof tops, adjacent terraces overlooking the bay of Aarhus, and a sheltered green courtyard. This is the essence of the Harbor Houses, a new residential complex in the port of Aarhus, which breaks with both the port’s massive scale, and present iconic building tendencies. The 13.200 m2 large project consists of 262 public dwellings distributed between 83 apartments for families and... read more
House on Fanø / lenschow & pihlmann
Fanø’s longhouse has been the inspiration for a new single-family house on Fanø an Island in the Wadden Sea. The typology is characterised by its elongated shape where the barn and habitation were traditionally placed under a continuous roof... read more
Woodcraft Neighbourhood Centre / Carter Williamson Architects
Woodcroft Neighbourhood Centre ushers in a new era of public centres designed to grow resilient communities. Three core sections gather under the serpentine roof, whose rise and fall reflects the different volumes of interior space: offices, courtyard, community room, and... read more
nOna / dmvA architecten in collaboration with Nick Ervinck
About twenty years ago arts center nOna in Mechelen suffered from lack of space. The existing Art-deco theatre hall had its limits and was no longer sufficient on terms of flexibility. In 1999 they had the idea to build a second theatre hall on the adjacent printing business site... read more
Red Curtain Office / Firki studio
The office building was built as an extension to the residence of a family of 3 Chartered Accountants, on an existing terrace area of 870 sq.ft. The client wanted a creative work environment comprising individual cabins, a workstation space for 8-10 staff and a compact pantry and toilet... read more
School of Dancing Arches / Samira Rathod Design Associates
Almost all of us have been here in our childhood, and perhaps the closest memories we hold dear are not of significant events, but ironically of the insignificant ones. Of losing oneself to wonderment, to wander under the skies, to re-live in our vivid imaginations of the make believe and many more phrases that make the song of our lives... read more
City Archive Delft / Office Winhov in collaboration with Gottlieb Paludan Architects
The Delft Archive is an important building for the city. It is the place to store and access the history of this old city; it is a treasure room, study room and time machine in one. The new archive building is situated at the closing head of a narrow park that connects the site to the historic centre of Delft... read more
Fjord House / Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann with Studio Olafur Eliasson
Fjordenhus (Fjord House), the first building designed entirely by artist Olafur Eliasson and the architectural team at Studio Olafur Eliasson was opened on 9 June in Vejle, Denmark. Commissioned by KIRK KAPITAL, the company’s new headquarters offer a contemporary interpretation... read more
Kahrizak Residential Building #01 / CAAT Studio
Kahrizak is a deprived urban district located at South-West Tehran (Capital city of Iran), with a rapid growth and spread. It has hot and dry climate like most of the country. The population of this region is mostly working class with low income. Main purpose of the design was to modify a typology of residential buildings in this region... read more
The Yoga Dojo / MW Architects
Designed within householder permitted development rights and within the wider context of the whole landscaping design, the Yoga Dojo is a standalone garden pavilion at the end of a planted walkway leading from the main outdoor terrace living-kitchen-dining space at the rear of the main house and sits under the canopy of towering Lime trees... read more
Boundary Street House / Chan Architecture Pty Ltd
Boundary Street House is a striking new house on a small, irregular site in Port Melbourne. The conceptual framework of the project was to draw inspiration from the industrial warehouse building type, and rework it to suit a residential brief... read more
Brick Aperture House / Kreis Grennan Architecture
Contemporary pavilion addition with articulated link to heritage cottage. Strategic placement of glazing edits a view back to a historic sewer chimney stack, in line with three chimneys of the existing dwelling... read more
Nowy Werdon / Małeccy
The project of the housing complex turned up in our studio as an answer to the call of MGSM cooperative in Ruda Śląska. We were intrigued by the challenge - Ruda Śląska, located only 15 minutes of car ride from the Katowice centre, is well communicated, but pauperised urban complex composed of small towns built for coal miners united into one in twentieth century... read more
Barn Living Aalten / Bureau Fraai
Bureau Fraai has completely renovated a 50’s farmhouse and extended the existing old barn next to the house with a contemporary extension. With the design of this extension the architects realized a harmonic relation between the existing and the new... read more
Palace of Justice / Felix Claus Dick van Wageningen Architecten
The Magistrate’s Court in Amsterdam is an important public building that hosts a very complex program. Within a very strict zoning plan it manifests itself as an abstract and light yet robust and timeless complex. The materialization is of high quality and precise without being condescending, a public building worthy... read more
House K / GRAUX&BAEYENS architecten
The property is located in a quiet, wooded area and it is built against the right neighbour. The challenging form of the plot and the orientation encourage us to look for a type of home that meets the sites conditions and also provides an architectural value. The requested program with limited living space was... read more
The Lantern / Fraher Architects
‘The Lantern’ project involved the complete basement, ground and first floor extension and refurbishment of a Locally Listed Residential Building in South West London. The Client asked us to transform the existing building into a series of spaces that had a strong reference to... read more
Red Castle / ATELIER 38
The castle area of Hradec nad Moravicí is situated on the territory of the low mountain range of the Nízký Jeseník, in the area of southern Silesia. Its area is one of the largest in the Czech Republic... read more
7 Units of Social Housing / Atelier Tom Vanhee
The dens building counts 4 storeys and 7 apartments. It ends a line of row houses and marks a green axis in the city where an old steam train passes by. Inspired by the red bricks and white windows and cornices of the row houses in the street, we also make a building with red masonry and white windows. A covered entrance on the ground floor makes a transition between public and private... read more
Nanoco showroom Hanoi / VTN Architects + Takashi Niwa
Located within Dong Da district, Hanoi, the newly constructed gallery and lighting showroom uses a perforated terracotta façade to create a simple yet significant impact on the surrounding landscape... read more
The Kálida Sant Pau Centre / EMBT
The Kálida Sant Pau Centre, designed by Benedetta Tagliabue – Miralles Tagliabue EMBT Arquitectos, opened on May 9th. The building is part of Maggie’s Centres program, dedicated to the development of spaces for the caring of cancer patients, next to existing hospitals... read more
Fire station Wilrijk / HCVA
In the context of a general redeployment of its fire stations, the Antwerp Fire Department inaugurated a new fire station in the Wilrijk district. Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven was commissioned by AG Vespa to design a building on the Gaston Fabrélaan, a traffic corner, south of the city... read more
Khesht-Baf / Image architects
Khesht-Baf building located in west part of Tehran. The architecture of the building was handed over to the IMAGE ARCHITECTS when the construction of the skeleton and concrete was completed. Khesht-Baf has 4 floors... read more
Home for The Homeless – Jankowice / xystudio
Shelter in Jankowice is an unusual building. It is designed for homeless people who are life-deficient and for whom there is no place in the care system. They are too healthy to live in social welfare home and too ”unhealthy”to use dormitory. Nun Chmielewska decided to built the “HOME” for them... read more
Forest Mews / Stolon Studio
The aim was to create an inspiring family home in which they could live and work, part-funded by the creation of two additional homes on the site, to overcome land costs. Having lived in what was formerly the only house in the mews, the clients wanted to preserve the sense of a woodland clearing as you enter the mews and to create two pleasant companions to their new home... read more
The Interlock / Bureau de Change
Located in London’s Fitzrovia – where Riding House Street opens to Well Street – sits The Interlock, a new built five-storey mixed-use development by Bureau de Change and the first built project by developer HGG London, a company established to commission innovative architecture... read more
P.C. Hooftstraat 138 / UNStudio
UNStudio has completed the renovation of the facade of P.C. Hooftstraat 138 in Amsterdam. P.C. Hooftstraat is one of the most elegant shopping streets in Europe, home to only leading international and Dutch designers, flagship stores and boutiques...read more
Site Apostolinnen / dmvA Architecten
Site Apostolinnen is a project combination of a new building, renovation and restoration. The client asked dmvA initially about the possibilities of the site where his bed factory was located. Based on an archaeological research, a non-binding master plan was made...read more
Truss House / Carter Williamson Architects
The Truss House is a new building embedded with a memory of the site’s former industrial past through the re-use of salvaged roof trusses. They create a new pitched skillion roof form, celebrating the exposed structure as an integral part of the character...read more
Emoticon facade / Attika Architekten
The town centre of Vathorst, in a new suburban development near Amersfoort, has developed along an existing, scenic ribbon. It is characterized by a lively mix of functions. Together with a library, a theatre and a school, this project with shops and apartments forms a square around a 150 year old oak tree...read more
Green House / KARABON
In the past the living of human being has been besides the nature, but nowadays due to definition of architectural space for living in floors above the ground, this relationship has been almost gone. Also In the past 40 years, the greenery of urban landscape in north Tehran gradually has been missed under continuous constructions...read more
Clapham House / MW Architects Ltd
This is a dramatic transformation of a small, semi-detached Victorian house. Despite being arranged over three floors, it was so shallow in depth that the proportions were cottage like...read more
Docklands / Marcel Lok_Architect
Buiksloterham (BSH) is part of a former industrial area located on the Northern bank of the IJ-river in Amsterdam. The location is now being developed into a metropolitan, sustainable working and living area that houses more than 4.000 homes. Project Docklands was the winning entry in 2010 for plot 12 of a competition on sustainability in Buiksloterham, in which the municipality has selected our team on the best energy and sustainability concept...read more
Experimental Brick Pavilion / Estudio Botteri-Connell
Facing the opportunity to experiment in a residential work of small scale, it's developed a series of essays that constitute the frame theorical-practical of project, manipulating a traditional element of our constructive culture in search new meanings and possibilities...read more
Brickface / Austin Maynard Architects
Brickface is a compact building situated at the rear of an existing house in Richmond, Melbourne. It consists of a garage at ground level, studio living/guest suite at first floor, and a roof deck accessed by a sculptural spiral staircase...read more
Toodyay Art Shack / Paul Wakelam Architect
The Toodyay Shack sits on a re-viewed and re-configured 1/2 acre town site. The memory of the house is also re-viewed and re-configured. The climatic regression house plays with thresholds of what is internal and what is external...read more
Daejo-dong ‘Chilwol’ / Seoga Architecture
Daejo-dong was an typical multi- family houses district which was developed in 1980’s and 1990’s. However, these days, the urban mixed-use dwellings with small shops begin to be built in the narrow back-streets...read more
Mons Memorial Museum / Atelier d'Architecture Pierre Hebbelinck
Transformation, renovation, expansion, and museography for a military history interpretive centre focussing primarily on the two world wars. Permanent and temporary exhibits, forum, restaurant, etc...read more
Otakaari student housing / ArkOpen
An invitational architecture competition was arranged in 2004 in the campus of Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo, Finland. The campus is originally designed by architect Alvar Aalto. The goal was to find a solution for student housing in a narrow plot that was essential for the townscape in Otaniemi campus...read more
Ilma Grove / Austin Maynard Architects
The Ilma Grove house is one of our greenest houses. Its planning and orientation is based solidly around passive solar efficiency. All roof captured rain water is harvested. It has solar panels, high performance insulation, recycled materials, LowE coated double glazing, low VOC materials and, most importantly, it is small...read more
Bistro EK / Dekleva Gregorič architects
The empty and forgotten semi-basement space in the 19th century Ljubljana corner building, which faces the riverside and a rarely frequented stairs-street, housed diverse ventures in the past, from a local butcher shop to a wholesale wine store...read more
Tropical House Urveel / Design Work Group
Urveel is a weekend residence, away from the city noises, into the woods. Located in the village of Sania Hemad in Surat district, Urveel represents the character of earth in its true sense. The 900 sq m bungalow rests on the edge of the village...read more
Villa S / RAVN Arkitektur
Villa S is the home of a family of four. The house is beautifully situated at the top of a steep site, sloping towards the icy blue fjord. The house is designed so that the interior and exterior architecture mirrors the naturally sloping terrain on site...read more
Arc / Koichi Takada Architects
Winner of the City of Sydney Design Excellence Competition in 2013, Arc represents an architectural statement that combines craftsmanship and texture to create a contemporary tower that respects the rich historical context of its surrounding urban fabric...read more
Maison de Catherine / ADHOC architectes
Located on Quesnel street in the Petite-Bourgogne district, this former duplex was renovated for the contemporary taste and transformed in a one family dwelling. The ground floor is essentially a large open area, subdivided in servant volumes for WC, walk-in, office and pantry...read more
Boomerang / DMOA
Somewhere between the hills of Kessel-Lo, hidden in the woods, lies Villa Boomerang. An open space makes way for an elegant organic volume. Light wooden columns and beams blend with the ancient trees. A brick 'curtain' rear facade shields the less interesting north side while on the south side...read more
Farsh Film Studio / ZAV Architects
Iranian have never been modern but rapidly modernized, and it is the forces of an oil-driven market that fuels the never-ending cycle of production and consumption in their nation-state. The market demands depletion of natural resources in return for what is seen by the mainstream as “progress”...read more
Urban Roof House / Atelier Tom Vanhee
This duplex apartment is situated on the third and fourth floor of a building in the centre of Brussels. Multiple unused small closed spaces on the fourth floor are replaced by one large living space. The dilapidated ceiling at the backside disappears and offers the apartment a renewed spaciousness...read more
Brakel Police Station / ORG
The Brakel Police Station is the police headquarters for the towns of Brakel, Horebeke, Maarkedal en Zwalm, a largely agricultural region in the so-called Flemisch Ardennes. The building provides offices, training class rooms, and gathering facilities for 50 police officers, 2 detainment cells, and parking spaces for 25 security vehicles. By positioning the building carefully on the site...read more
House for solidarity / Ellenamehl Architects
Between new buildings and existing housing, the House for solidarity participates, by its presence and its elegant silhouette, in the pacification of the area. It also gives a finality to street where it meets the park. Neither monumental, nor impressive...read more
Loft with love / CMC architects
The historical First Municipal Brewery in Prague-Holešovice – a place where beer fermented and beer buckets were stored gave stimulus to an original design of an open, and, at the same time, introspective space for creative and modern housing in an industrial spirit. The converted building accommodates a total of forty loft-type flats...read more
Foundry Mews / Project Orange
Foundry Mews is a surreptitious new-build, mixed-used development on an 800sqm backland site in Barnes, West London. Tucked away behind a traditional range of shop buildings fronting Barnes High Street, the site was a long abandoned dilapidated MOT and car body repair workshop. The brief for this sensitive site was to create studios and housing...read more
1 OPTICIAN, 30 STUDENTS and some ANIMALS / DMOA architects
The road ‘Tiensestraat’ stretches from the center of Leuven to the ring road and is visibly a street of extremes. From the center to the Vesaliusstraat she is very pleasant. The street is airy and flanked by beautiful buildings, squares and parks. In the more peripheral part the street becomes narrow and claustrophobic, predominantly dominated by cars...read more
Benoit & Elke / Atelier Vens Vanbelle
Benoit and Elke had bought an old house with the intention of renovating this building. However, due to the poor condition of the building, it was soon decided to rebuild the house, which entailed the necessary freedom of design...read more
The Brick Abode / Alok Kothari Architects
Nestled in a quiet residential neighborhood, this 3,600 sq.ft. site hosted a 25-year-old single storey house. Unfortunately, we decided to bring down this structure as it was in a dilapidated state, its interiors were gloomy & also, it wasn’t a vaastushastra (traditional Hindu science of architecture) compliant house – which was the client’s main requirement...read more
Netherlands Open Air Museum / Mecanoo
Founded in 1912, the Netherlands Open Air Museum is splendidly situated in the rolling landscape of the woods near Arnhem. The museum park comprises forty-four hectares and shows dwellings from different periods and regions...read more
BomBom Boutique Hotel / Architecture Studio YEIN
People use various codes as a means of intercommunication or to embed information. The architect believes architecture can be a means of communication and the container of information. For travelers, the hotel is not only an accommodation but also an architectural place where they can share information...read more
Lantern Hotel / ZLGdesign
The design process for The Lantern Hotel took an extended period of time, beginning in 2012 with long periods of time spent in getting relevant approvals from local authorities, as well as tweaking and refining the program details and design, with the primary overriding concern of ensuring maximum cost-effectiveness throughout...read more
Boiler house Libčice nad Vltavou / Patrik Hoffman
The Brownfield (Drátovny a Šroubárny n.p. industrial estate) was established in 1872 by the PragueAssociation of Ironworks near the Prague – Dresden railway line by the Vltava river. It significantlyinfluenced the development of the nearby municipalities and has left a considerable mark on thislocality, giving it a unique character and ambience...read more
Claudia Andujar Art Gallery / Arquitetos Associados
The Maxita Yano – Claudia Andujar Gallery, part of Inhotim Contemporary Art Museum, was designed to shelter the works of the swiss-born Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar. The building is located on a densely wooded slope, accessed by trails amongst the vegetation...read more
HOUSE 1014 / HARQUITECTES
The desire of the owners was to differentiate two zones in the house: the domestic area, where the daily family life had to take place; and a secondary area, quite and isolated from the first, functionally independent to be used indistinctly as a living room or to welcome occasional guests as well as organizing meals and gatherings...read more
Gewad / Atelier Vens Vanbelle
This project brings together four new apartments which run perfectly under, over and trough eachother. The building was erected on the spot where once stood a burnt costume shop. Maarten bought the dilapidated house with his brother and parents, and began puzzling together with his business partner Dries. "There was a lot of thinking concerned...read more
Rebel One / WWAA
Kamionek is now one of the most vibrant places in Praga Południe but during the process of designing the Rebel One it was a relatively unsung place. Almost half of the territory of district is taken up by Skaryszewski Park, National Stadium and the adjacent meadows...read more
Brick House / AZL architects
Based on local courtyard houses, the design evolved from the interaction of two brick houses with the surrounding landscape. Terracotta bricks were made from local clay with local knowledge, composing the structure and façades. Skilled village construction workers very familiar with the medium were able to facilitate the marriage of traditional savoir-faire with new and progressive design...read more
House like Garden / MARC KOEHLER ARCHITECTS
The 140 m² house is located on a small plot in IJburg; a recently developed suburb of the city of Amsterdam. The house is designed as a vertical garden giving space to flora and fauna to grow in a densly urbanised area. Closed private spaces contrast with open collective spaces, that seem to have been ‘carved out’ from the solid volume as a continous transparent void. In this way the interior space is visually and physically connected to the street, the garden and roof terraces...read more
Amsterdam Noordstrook Block A / Mecanoo and Dick van Gameren
To set into motion a large-scale renovation of the Delflandplein neighbourhood, the first new block has been designed to achieve maximum density: Noordstrook combines 170 affordable housing units, a community centre and commercial spaces in one volume. The U-shaped complex has a large variety of housing types and sizes...read more
Casa Kwantes / MVRDV
Casa Kwantes bases itself around the clients’ desire for seclusion and privacy, whilst having a maximum of daylight and open living spaces. From the road, the bare brick wall offers only a partial glimpse into the property and family life through an opening of the white brickwork façade - a subtle indented entrance leading into an initially dark and enclosed entrance hall...read more
York Street / Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
An existing heritage building is transformed through the introduction of a modern, two-storey addition that playfully re-interprets the distinctive geometry of the original dwelling through a contemporary lens. Capturing abundant natural light and garden aspects, the new addition employs a refined and subtle palette of brick, steel and timber...read more
JUANA AZURDUY / BAAG
Juana Azurduy 1635 is a residential building that consists of two four-story wings separated by an inner courtyard. It’s located on a low rise and residential Núñez neighborhood block, which stands out due to the fact that a public school, full of mature plantains and ash trees, takes up half of its surface. The building looks to provide an urban statement, making a point of considering the wall that divides it from the school a façade and not just a “blind” wall...read more
VH House / ODDO architects
The house is designed for 4-member family. The land of house is relatively small, 4x16 meters. It was used as garden with fruit trees and vegetable. The aim was to return this garden to family by applying maximum amount of greenery in the design...read more
Castle Lane / DROO
VI Castle Lane revisits a recurring element of English architecture through a novel interpretation of the bow window. Introducing contemporary design in a highly protected conservation area, the project’s complex volume uses its curving walls to negotiate conflicting urban scales; from mansions to townhouses...read more
Ozgol apartment / Hooba Design Group
The new urban development of Tehran in the recent decades has imposed alterations to the ratio of open and semi-open spaces to the closed spaces in residential units. These changes has enormously affected the lifestyle of Tehranians in the recent years to such and extend that smaller apartment units have minimum access to open or semi-open spaces...read more
HOUSE 1101 / HARQUITECTES
Not so many jobs begin like this one, with an owners' list of wishes and hopes for their new home. A list much closer to the principles and values architects usually work with, often secretly, than the ordinary expectations of those couples facing this unknown challenge. Lists always full of good intentions but often incomplete. This was the start, loaded with responsibility, yet an excellent start...read more
CASA BÚHO / BAAG
Within the framework of the housing loan program Pro.Cre.Ar, the project is being implemented in the outskirts of the city of La Plata (Provincia de Buenos Aires) In a still undeveloped area. It is part of the double challenge of colonizing an extensive land expanding a house that could not surpass 130m2, but considering the future consolidation of the urban landscape and its urban responses...read more
Brick Cave / H&P Architects
The proposed structure of the house resembles that of a Cave. The overall structure is made up of and enclosed by two layers of brick wall meeting one another at an intersection, with alternate ‘green’ arrangements of plants and vegetables. Bricks have long been a familiar local material and widely used in rural areas of Vietnam with a simple manual construction method...read more
FAMILY HOUSE IN MONTRAS / RICARDO BOFILL TALLER DE ARQUITECTURA
The building is an articulated house that respects as far as possible the preexisting vegetation. The pavilions, sheathed in brown brick are projected towards the central space and face the swimming pool - the center of the life of this villa...read more
Harold Street Residence / Jackson Clements Burrows Architects
The Harold Street Residence is a new two storey dwelling located in a heritage overlay area of Middle Park. The brief called for a new residence for a couple with university age children that would accommodate their evolving family needs. The ground floor provides the primary residence for our clients, engaging both with the street and garden, whilst the upper level provides more flexible living areas and bedrooms for their children, visitors and grandchildren...read more
Manhwaricano House / Rieuldorang Atelier
It is 30 minutes away from Ulsan and there are many people who migrate to enjoy rural life these days. Most of the migrants here buy places that have developed mountains and fields for residential use. The commissioned place was one of these houses. Three houses of Ameri-can type were already here. Placing different types of buildings where the same shapes are side by side creates an uncomfortable landscape in terms of locality and context...read more
Aráoz 967 / BAAG
Aráoz 967 is a residential building located in Villa Crespo, a low density area with a strong neighborhood character. The project faces the difficulty of continuing to densify the city in a neighborhood of low-density houses that define their identity as their urban way of life...read more
Edron Gallery / TACO taller de arquitectura contextual
The Édron Gallery is the first intervention to the old corporate building of Grupo Predeco, a company that manufactures and commercializes construction elements and materials in the Mexican southeast since more than 40 years ago. Édron is a Predeco brand specialized in permeable pavers. The objective of the project was to adapt an existing space to exhibit their products...read more
CIVIC CENTRE CRISTALLERIES PLANELL 1015 / HARQUITECTES
This public facility houses an adult education centre, a language standarization consortium and a hotel on a triangular plot in the Parliament district. Two of the three sides of the site area defined by the heritage-listed frontage of the former Planell glass factory, built on Calle Anglesola in 1913....read more
Xintai Warehouse / Kokaistudios
The project is located in Shanghai, on the North bank of the Suzhou Creek. The area, once the vibrating industrial engine of the colonial Shanghai, is today undergoing an unprecedented and controversial process of transformation, where consistent portions of the original urban fabric, 'carpets' of Shikumen intertwined with warehouses and industrial artifacts, are being cancelled together with the memory they represent, replaced by high rise residential and office towers....read more
Three Courtyard Community centre / AZL architects
On the eastern edge of Yangzhou's new development area and east of the 2500-year-old Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Three Courtyard Community Centre stands out from the surrounding newly completed call centres, glass office blocks, and farmers' villages. The Community centre's programme calls for recreation, dining, and meeting spaces for the surrounding residents and employees...read more
Civic Centre Lleialtat Santsenca 1214 / HARQUITECTES
Three starting points: understanding the historic value of Lleialtat Santsenca (1928),an old working class cooperative in the Sants neighborhood; knowing to the detail the building’s (physical) state to maintain as much as possible; and being sensitive to the whole collaborative process launched in 2009 by neighborhood organizations to recover the building...read more
One Up Two Down / McCullough Mulvin Architects
One Up Two Down is an urban courtyard house in central Dublin built on a very tight budget. The site was carved out of an existing plot along the filled-in Royal Canal - now a linear park. The scheme fills the rectangular site and maximises open space, with loft-like living space on the upper floor for privacy, light and views, bedrooms below, and a studio beyond the central courtyard...read more
Hunting House ‘La Branche’ / DMOA architecten
The project consists of the renovation of an old resting place for hunters in the woods of Heverlee, transforming it into a comfortable and modern dwelling for a family with four children. The oldest (18th century) central wing of the U-compositions was removed, leaving only the characteristic facade wall that caries the name of the old refuge "La Branche"..read more
Piedrabuena House / MUKA arquitectura
Ceramics, in Piedrabuena house, acquires many qualities as a relevant element in the house. The continuing presence of this material in the municipality and the low budget suggested a proposal able to re-read its more material condition...read more
Crossing Bricks / JOHO Architecture
The purpose of the project was to secure a stable income and home for the retired old couple. Due to the aging of the existing building, the competitiveness of the new building has been lowered compared to the surrounding buildings. Attempting to overcome this situation, the newly built project aimed to design a competitive building for leasing in comparison with its surroundings...read more
Silesia university's radio and tv department in Katowice / BAAS arquitectura / Grupa 5 Architekci / Maleccy Biuro Projektowe
The project preserves this existing building, and adds an extension to it while protecting the character of the old; it also includes a lower height building occupying the interior block area which confers to the central courtyard the intervention’s prominence...read more
Emiliano Zapata / Marcos Hagerman / HGR Arquitectos
The project proposes 25 apartments between 82 and 91sqm, which are divided internally through 5 central patios. Each patio separates the common area from the private area in each apartment. These areas are connected by bridges confined by a brick lattice that helps to give privacy and ventilation to each unit...read more
De Cammeleur / KdV architectuur, Eindhoven
The Flemish village Elewijt is one of six communities belonging to the municipality of Zemst, located between Brussels and Mechelen. Castle fields, historical premises and nature areas are the characteristic features of this region. Villa Edelweiss is a brick gentlemen's house with art-deco elements, a beautiful garden, a greenhouse and a partly walled garden. Due to its location in the shadow of the church...read more
Apartments Villa Edelweiss / dmvA
The Flemish village Elewijt is one of six communities belonging to the municipality of Zemst, located between Brussels and Mechelen. Castle fields, historical premises and nature areas are the characteristic features of this region. Villa Edelweiss is a brick gentlemen's house with art-deco elements, a beautiful garden, a greenhouse and a partly walled garden...read more
Muddus / Wingardhs
It is rather ironic that “the red building” has become an icon of the Norra Djurgårdsstaden neighborhood. The building was designed in defiance of an explicit directive from the City not to use brick in order to prevent the building from competing with, or even asserting itself against, Ferdinand Boberg’s majestic cylindrical gasometers...read more
ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING TEXTILVERBAND MÜNSTER / behet bondzio lin architects
The design concept of the building for the Association of the Northwest German Textile and Garment Industry aims to provide all employees with a view of the picturesque landscape to the north and to welcome those arriving from the south with a strong textile image. The elongated structure is enclosed on three sides by a completely closed brick facade. The volume, closed to the east, south and west and open to the north, is the basis for an energy-optimized office building...read more
Rural low energy house / Atelier Tom Vanhee
The former farmhouse is situated in an agricultural area in the east of the municipality of Aartrijke, Belgium. The typology of the existing building is used in a contemporary way to enlarge the dwelling. Two new volumes with a pitched roof were added against the existing volume. Two chimney shaped skylights create light and a view on to the first floor. A third chimney houses the air outlet of the heat pump...read more
House Sher / EFTYCHIS ARCHITECTS
The house is defined along an axis which separates the living areas on the south side and the gym and guest bedroom on the north. The linear axis is pronounced by a tower-like lobby and ends with a natural filtered eco-pool as the focal point. Concrete and facebrick walls flank the space from which a steel staircase hangs from steel dowels defined by the meandering skylight above...read more
De Halve Mean apartament building / Mecanoo
De Halve Maen, named after the vessel of the Dutch East India Company, is an apartment building that is part of the Overhoeks development. Attractive, high-quality, spacious homes have been created on the former Shell terrain, beautifully located on the north shore of the river IJ. Mecanoo designed a symmetrical U-shaped building in a park area with a tall masonry plinth and...read more
Tower of Bricks / Interval Architects
The project began with an abandoned Hoffman brick kiln, which was located between Hengshui wetland park and the city proper of Hengshui. It was formerly a place where factories nearby used to drain their sewage water onto. As the only building on wetland, the brick kiln was highly recognizable with its chimney. However the Hoffman kiln was gradually abandoned...read more
Rock Creek House / NADAAA
The Rock Creek House is an adaptive re-use project of a 1920’s brick structure that was originally composed of two floors, with a mechanical basement and attic. This adaptation leverages the robustness of the existing structure to capture the attic and basement to double the house’s size, while expanding its functions into the landscape. While the northern street façade remains relatively intact...read more
DE BAEDTS house / Architektuurburo Dirk Hulpia
In order to not disturb the front view, the carport is placed out of sight and integrated in the house with an interesting game of volumes. These three volumes contain the program. The front one, the storage and technical room. The back box, the main entrance and living room facing the garden and the upper one the sleeping rooms and the office...read more
Housing for the visually impaired / 70F architecture
The task was to create three houses for 24-27 (semi) self-supporting visually impaired inhabitants with 8-9 persons per house. Taken in consideration was the possibility to later sell the houses as private villas in this beautiful environment. The houses are divided into two elements, coupled by a glass corridor. The space between the two elements is a sheltered patio...read more
Ying Liang Stone / Atelier Alter
This rehabilitation project converts a storage space into a stone archive to showcase the diversities of stone craft and to create a space for architects to contemplate their designs with stone. As the most primitive construction material, brick and stone come with dignity and authenticity. However, as construction today becomes more visually dominated...read more
Brick Curtain House_Nidhi / Design Work Group
This Residence the architectural space we are calling it a “Brick curtain House”. It is a functional environment where our client carry part of their life. Climate-Context and Client’s brief were major driving forces for the accomplishment of this project. The site is a part of Residential society a corner plot approached from road on the west edge. The layout...read more
Fontys School of Sport Studies / Mecanoo
The completion in 2012 of the Fontys School of Sport Studies at Eindhoven’s Genneper Parks was a first step in turning the parks into a 'sports estate'. Mecanoo’s design creates an important link in the network of sport accommodations and facilities in Genneper Parks. 2200 students and teachers make daily use of sports facilities in their own building, including the National Swimming Centre, the Tongelreep and the Indoor Sports Centre...read more
Edges Apartments / Studio Toggle
The Edges Apartment, with its articulated brick cladded façade, lights up the streets of Salmiya, a predominantly expat neighborhood in Kuwait. A simple rhythmic twist, achieved by transposition of the vertices on either side of a finite axis, imparts dynamism and drama to the façade. A very restrained palette of locally sourced natural brick and exposed ...read more
Frederiksberg Courthouse / 3XN
In accordance with the Danish design tradition, Frederiksberg Courthouse is the result of a rigorous and pragmatic process, where the challenges of the programme and the site were the creative point of departure. The successful result is an elegantly curved building, classical yet modern...read more
SLOPE HOUSE / DMOA architects
"Let’s hope it won’t be too complex to build on a slope this steep ..." A black ski slope in the woods... the inclination feels somewhat like that. High chestnut trees hinder the overview on the plot. A classic house with downstairs living areas and upstairs bedrooms wouldn’t make sense here...read more
Woning Landen / AST 77
The design of the house starts from the characteristics of the place, combined with the specific needs and wishes of the client. Despite the generous available space, which has been furnished as a garden of the parental home, there was vigilance about the lavish completion of this plot. The house has...read more
Plange Mühle Campus / ingenhoven architects
ingenhoven architects complete the conversion and restoration of a listed former grain silo on the Plange Mühle Campus in Dusseldorf. The 1906 grain silo is transformed into a six story loft building, creating new work spaces for the commercial operations of Fashion... read more
Tozzer Anthropology Building / Kennedy & Violich Architecture
As Modern era university buildings are aging across the world, they are unable to meet contemporary building codes, needs for weather tight envelopes, energy savings requirements and public access. At the same time, universities cannot dismiss the embodied energy and materials that went into these structures. This transformative adaptive re-use project uses...read more
La Géode / ADHOC architectes
The project is located on 'de la Roche' street, in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood, a vibrant area with an incomparable urban vitality. In view of its situation, the project aims to give a new breath to this plot with a contemporary residential project of five housing units reflecting all the energy of this strategic sector where young professionals mix with families and couples...read more
Project B / JUMA Architects
For the thorough renovation of an old farm, JUMA architects set out in search of the perfect balance between old and new. In its previous state, the house – which did have a cosy feel – was entirely lacking in terms of spaciousness, light and vision.. read more
Ökumenisches Forum Hafencity / Wandel Lorch Architekten
The Ecumenical Forum is a sacred and a residential and office building. The only chapel in the HafenCity had been created from the association of 19 Christian denominations. The Forum combines two different building typologies: The town house with its perimeter block development incorporated... read more
HOUSE 712 / H ARQUITECTES
The house was for a young couple without children, and had some initial programmatic requirements which were pretty conventional (a garage, three bedrooms, a study, etc). The plot, which was triangular and around 400m2, was part of a land promotion protected by the Incasol for self promoters and was subjected to a tight schedule for the development... read more
House VI / Iglesias Leenders Bylois Architecten
Not a subdivision of land, but a place with a history became a starting point. Till nowadays on the terrain there are, almost organically grown with the house, six remarkably big trees: high, slender trees that determined the character of the building, and pushed it... read more
DNB Headquarters / MVRDV
The development of the new headquarter cluster is a strategic operation concentrating the DNB offices formerly spread out over Oslo at one location, aiming for synergy and a clear identity. The objective was to translate the social and democratic character... read more
COF Outreach Village Primary Schools / Studio FH Architects
The Cotton On Foundation is a non-governmental organisation from Australia which, amongst other programmes around the globe, is in the process of creating a total of 20,000 new educational places for primary and secondary school children in Southern Uganda by the year 2020. To achieve this ambitious... read more
LT House / Tropical Space Co.,Ltd
This small house is located in a new resindential area in Long Thanh District. The owner is a newlywed with the desire of having their own house. With the limited area, the architects think that the private space should be shared to have more space for the sharing area... read more
Six pins and half a dozen needles / Alex Chinneck
British artist Alex Chinneck has completed his latest monumental artwork entitled ‘Six pins and half a dozen needles’ on Assembly London... read more
HALA KOSZYKI / JEMS ARCHITEKCI
The development of the area bounded by Koszykowa, Lwowska and Noakowskiego streets had remained unfinished until our contemporary times. Around the Hala Koszyki market hall built in 1906-09, an area was left built up with one-storey pavilions and warehouses, surrounded by blind gable walls of tenement houses... read more
Buccleuch House / Levitt Bernstein
Buccleuch House is a truly intergenerational housing development in the London Borough of Hackney. The site, previously home to poor quality bedsit accommodation, combines three distinct tenures within one elegant building... read more
Brick Garden with Brick House / Jan Proksa
A house in a traditional Southern Moravian village, reflecting elements of the local style, built as an extension of an existing third-generation family home. The internal rooms and external kitchen and courtyard together form a fluid and unified living space. This continuity is reinforced by the use... read more
Saint Bernard´s Chapel / Nicolás Campodonico
Located in the Pampa plains, in the east of the province of Cordoba, Saint Bernard´s Chapel (the local patron saint) rises in a small grove, originally occupied by a rural house and its yards, both dismantled in order to reuse their materials, especially its one-hundred-year-old bricks... read more
Granja Julieta House / Jamelo Arquitetura
The house is located in a quiet residential neighbourhood in the south of the city of São Paulo, very close to a beautiful square widely used by local residents. Embedded into an urban lot, the residence is composed by a single volume that has been placed in the frontal part of... read more
KS HOUSE / ARQUITETOS ASSOCIADOS
The design of this house was guided by the initial desire of privacy and the consideration of the site conditions, closed to the outside, but open to a large three-story internal void. The objective was to bring a spatial richness with the varying ceiling heights, large air volumes... read more
HOUSE 1219 / HARQUITECTES
On a plot without salient features, the project took as starting point the restrictions marked by the geotechnical study, which showed that the first meters underground had a low resistance capacity. To avoid a deep foundation, not recommendable for both economic and environmental reasons... read more
Dusseldorf, AABE Bruno Erpicum & Partners
Bruno Erpicum was the architect entrusted with designing this warehouse conversion. It is now the home of a couple with a passion for architecture who were keen to make one of Düsseldorf’s rare ruins their own. The reconversion was closely overseen by the administrative authorities... read more
Terra Cotta Studio / Tropical Space Co.,Ltd
A Terracotta Studio, located next to Thu Bon river in Dien Ban district of Quang Nam Province has a particular architectural structure. Noted for being the working space of renowned artist Le Duc Ha the studio is a beautiful art structure to engage... read more
Single family house Szilas-patak / Földes Architects
The streetside wing of the “L”-shaped building of mono pitch roof is one-storey, the backyard-wing extending for the back is two-storey. The community places are situated on the ground floor as well as the parents’ bedroom and the double garage. In the protected bend... read more
Project R / JUMA Architects
This project includes the demolition of an existing house and the construction of an apartment building with an office space on the ground floor and a studio and a duplex apartment on the upper floors... read more
House V / ARCHITECTSLAB
The site, situated next to the lake of Keerbergen (Belgium), offered the opportunity to create a design for a spacious single-family home which is mainly oriented towards the water. The concept started from the idea of a closed impression from the street, where you are guided towards the entrance by the composition of the brick... read more
23 Dwellings in Béthune / FRES architectes
The project is situated in the district of Mont-Liébaut, in the outskirts of Béthune, in a district registered on the program of the National Agency for the Urban Renovation (ANRU). This project groups together 23 ‘semi-collective’ social housing units. The inspiration for the design came from research into new qualities developed... read more
Kunstmuseum Basel / Christ & Gantenbein
The façade brick walls were designed to be self-supporting and monolithic, and thanks to a sophisticated anchoring system (with elastic corners to absorb any deformations to which the building might be subjected) the usual dilatation joints could be dispensed with. This in turn allowed the walls... read more
Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building / Mecanoo
Mecanoo and US office Sasaki Associates have teamed up to create a new office building for the Boston Public Schools administration with community and retail space. Redevelopment of the triangular plot of ground, graced by the historic Ferdinand (1895), Curtis (1888) and Waterman (1890) Buildings, is one of the most... read more
The Screen / DMOA architects
The mood in the house is serene, pure and focused on the tranquillity of the countryside. Vast, gently sloping fields, some trees, a lonely house. You can stare for hours. A nice place to come home to after a busy day filled with impulses... read more
Retail store / Supermarket / neun grad architektur
The form of this Supermarket building is based on three circles floating together. This is due to an old children´s hospital, trees worth keeping and the tenant, who wanted a different way of product presentation. In a surrounding of faceless thirties and sixties architecture it is individually designed and will... read more
Westkaai Towers 5 & 6, Tony Fretton Architects
Tony Fretton Architects was appointed to design the facades and appearance of the communal lobbies. The local architect in close collaboration designed the buildings’ form and floor layouts with client and end users in accordance with local planning and building regulations... read more
New Visitor and Customer Center / Reichel Schlaier Architekten
The client, family owned and internationally active Alfred Kärcher GmbH & Co. KG, renowned for the distinctive yellow of their cleaning equipment, is headquartered in Winnenden near Stuttgart and has experienced strong growth in recent years. With no more space available on the company‘s historic grounds for their increased requirements, the company acquired a 130,000 sqm former brickworks site... read more
Congress Centre Jordanki / Menis Arquitectos
CKK Jordanki is located within a green ring around the historic city center, overlooking the Vistula River. Therefore, special care was took in designing the orientation and height of the volumes so that the presence of the new building establishes a harmonious relationship with the natural and built environment. Thus the building occupies half of the plot, the other half being dedicated... read more
Campus Hall - Student Housing for the University of Southern Denmark / C.F. Møller Architects
The design of the new student housing for the University of Southern Denmark in Odense is based on a strong community spirit. The 250 student residences are located in three interconnected 15-storey buildings. This means that the residence has no front or back, but appears attractive from a 360-degree perspective. The building's distinctive shape will make... read more
Two Houses in Oropesa / Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos
Sitting in the foothills of the Sierra de Gredos in Spain, Oropesa commands an extensive view encompassing snow-capped peaks and olive trees. Oropesa is known for its castle, built in 1402 and formerly the residence of a noble family from Toledo. One of them built an arcade to link the castle with Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Church, where the houses are placed incrusted in the ancient walls... read more
1334 Restaurant / 10 Architects
The project of 10 architects for a restaurant in Belogradchik was inspired by the natural attractions of the city. The theme of the rocks, context and cultural values in the region have left their mark on the project... read more
Long Brick House / Földes Architects
The project initiated by an intellectual couple, had a clear starting point, as highlighted to architects Laszlo Foldes and Peter Sonicz: “We own a length of books something like 100 meters”. The owners of the site had found the best location to retire from work and the noise of Budapest in a rich natural environment, at the side of the Big-Proud Peak... read more
Vaudeville Court / Levitt Bernstein
Vaudeville Court is a high density, sustainable, social housing project in Finsbury Park in the London Borough of Islington. The three storey building provides thirteen affordable dwellings – a mix of two, three and four bedroom family maisonettes and apartments – and infills an existing garage site. The scheme is based around the concept of ‘productive landscapes’... read more
Ocean Estate / Levitt Bernstein
The Ocean Estate in Stepney, east London, was one of the country’s most deprived neighbourhoods when we became involved in 2009. Residents were disillusioned with past attempts at regeneration, but were keen for the site to be improved. It was blighted by street crime and the majority of housing was no longer fit for purpose... read more
Faculty Housing o.p. Jindal Global University / S.P.A Design
The campus for the O.P.Jindal Global University is planned in an entirely flat agricultural land, 10 km away from the city of Sonepat, on the remains of the mythical Grand Trunk Road that was going through Northern India, from Afghanistan to Burma... read more
Kunstmuseum Fuglsang / Tony Fretton Architects Ltd
International design competition winning scheme for the masterplan of the Fuglsang Cultural Centre estate, Lolland, Denmark, including a new 2,500 sqm exhibition facility to house the Storstrøm Art Museum’s permanent collection of Danish fine art dating from the period 1780-1980, which is being... read more
Villa Stamerbos / 70F architecture
Work on progress Villa Stamerbos offers a new window on living and working Private and public. Two apparently contradictory domains that in these times of working from home, social media and ‘outdoor becomes indoor’-architecture, increasingly intermingle. Is there still a boundary? And if so, where is it?Villa Stamerbos is a... read more
Andreas Ensemble / Tony Fretton Architects Ltd
The project, for developers Proper Stok, is situated in Amsterdam West, an area planned by Cor van Eesteren before the Second World War but constructed only from the 1950’s onwards, principally as social housing. Now emerging from being seen as a failure, the area is becoming an attractive alternative to the centre... read more
Nagykovácsi Ladányi Hous / Földes Architects
After returning from Denmark, the head of the family requested a simple and refined building that is not alien to the town’s atmosphere. The concept was to create a very moderate house which follows the topography and take advantage of the given facilities... read more
Villa Kooistra / 70F architecture
The commission (April 2007) consisted of a detached dwelling with garage on a plot in region Noorderplassen-West, Almere. The family wanted a modern ‘Spartan’ building, but 'cozy'. Privacy, light and functionality were the themes. The house is a two-story building with traditional planning, living on the... read more
Solid 11 / Tony Fretton Architects Ltd
The project, which is located near Vondelpark, Amsterdam, is one of three new buildings that occupy a site of a former 1960’s hospital. The master plan, by Belgian architect Jo Crepain, envisaged three distinct buildings similar in scale and alignment, each consisting of two parallel blocks with an internal... read more
Tarun Tahiliani Design Headquarters / S.P.A Design
Tarun Tahiliani Design Pvt Ltd is one of the leading fashion design companies in India. The new building for the Tahiliani Design headquarters is a three storied structure in exposed rcc and brick. It houses space for apparel production, administration, studios for designers, and a showroom. Gurgaon sector... read more
Oostendse Steenweg / Architecten Groep III
The social housing project consists out of 80 apartments including 19 houses especially adapted for disabled people. On the ground floor a center for assisted living is accommodated. As a gatehouse, the three similar building blocks will announce the new housing neighborhood in the future... read more
Iron Porch House / Földes Architects
The 726 sqm site, being reminiscent of a fairy glade, is located at the northern part of Nagykovácsi. The garden surrounded by young fruit trees and pines on three sides has idyllic atmosphere. There are cottages, some new family homes and most of all green all around. The square site is slightly sloped to... read more
Toldy High School Gymnasium / Földes Architects
The time-honored brick building of the Toldy High School was built on the slope of the Castle Hill in 1859 in neo-gothic style. The neighbouring plot was designated for the extension of the school with a gymnasium. The new building consists of four functional units: gymnasium, lobby, changing rooms, medical wing... read more
Primary school ZV Zavelput / dmvA
The school is situated, from the perspective of urban planning, on a very important, essential site. The front-side is situated in an urban tissue of streets in a ribbon development. The school zone itself is by means of its campus morphology, part of a larger green area... read more
Patio House / Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]
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Patio House, located in the Nortown area in Toronto, Ontario, is a minimalist two-storey wood structure house, which carefully responds to three major questions: the needs of the residents, the situation of the site, and the environmental concerns. Being located in a corner lot, the building maintains a... read more
Villa Frenay / 70F architecture
The commission (March 2008) consisted of a detached house with outbuildings on a plot in villa park 'de Noordzoom’ in Lelystad, at the foot of the Enkhuizen – Lelystad dike. The family wanted, like many others, light, air and space. The house is a one-story bungalow, while the site asked for a response to... read more
Vassall Road housing / Tony Fretton Architects Ltd
As in many parts of inner London, the district in which the building is situated was developed as an 18th century suburb with houses of some dignity. Opposite are paired villas with large windows in brick facades, further down the street an array of cottages and... read more
University of Aarhus / C. F. Møller Architects
The University of Aarhus, which dates from 1931, is a unique and coherent university campus with consistent architecture, homogenous use of yellow brickwork and adaptation to the landscape. The university has won renown and praise as an integrated complex which unites the best aspects... read more
Lorette Convent / dmvA
Since more than 130 years, ‘Hooghuys’ is part of the the site Lorette Convent, composed of different wings surrounded by the Drabstraat, the Begijnenstraat and the Graspoort. The city block of Lorette Convent is characterised by two outer spaces, a triangular large courtyard and a more rectangular like... read more
House VCC / Enplus Architecten
There was already a house with a storage adjacent on site, as well as a landscaped garden. We decided not to break down the house immediately so that the owners didn’t have to move. Instead, we started construction by taking down the storage and building the new project at the same place. After the new house... read more
Casa de Ladrillos - Brick House / Ventura Virzi arquitectos
Kenneth Frampton considers Tectonics not only as a “mere disclosure of the construction technique, but, rather, its expressive potential. Tectonics acquires a truly artistic character to the extent that it amounts to a poetics of construction… The inevitable ground nature of a building has... read more
Villa Platan / ADEPT
Designed from four rectangular volumes, seamlessly merging, a private villa sit on the very edge between land and sea. ADEPT is behind the design that is carefully tailored to the unique location using nature’s own colors and soft transitions between interior spaces, as well as between inside and outside... read more
Groen Steenbrugge / Architecten Groep III
The mixed housing project ‘Groen Steenbrugge’ is situated at the border of the city of Bruges along the canal Ghent-Bruges. After breaking down the dilapidated sheds and with the preservation of the valuable mansion a new site was created to set up a renovation and construction project... read more
Skarnu 11 / Jaunromāns un Ābele
The brick building with six apartments and commercial space on the ground floor was designed and built over a decade. Situated right in the middle of the city, it exhibits five playfully yet strongly organized facades towards some of the most famous pieces of local heritage, including the... read more
Claremont House / Brininstool + Lynch
Traditional materials of brick, concrete, limestone, steel, and zinc are used to form a non-traditional house on a typical lot on the north side of Chicago. The house further resists city conventions by uniting the front yard with the back through visual transparency, where sheets of glass more... read more
Residence Salvador / Architecten Groep III
This project is a configuration of five entities on a corner lot outside the historical center of Bruges. Creatively walking on the boundaries of the building regulations a dense urban project is realized with qualitative in- and outside spaces... read more
YAS House / Estudio Arzubialde
In a next-to-a-square plot of land: the boundary between is considered as a facade. If we look though it, our plot may be perceived larger than it´s real size. The house is organized in two blocks: the day area, oriented to the north, with a straight connection to the backyard; and the night area... read more
House of Sieves / Francisco Cadau
The project stands on a lot facing south containing a garden on the center of the block. Its parcel is next to Rivadavia Avenue, the main axis of the city and, hereabout, an area characterized by schools and stores during the day and discotheques at night. The building of the former cinema, which stands as... read more
House in El Pinar / BIAGIONI_PECORARI Arquitectos
For a single-storey suburban existing house, we proposed a refurbishment and addition that includes an extra bedroom, a new bathroom and the growth of the kitchen-dining-living room connected to the backyard through a gallery, accompanied by a beam-gutter projecting to the end of the plot... read more
Vakcollege Eindhoven & Aloysius de Roosten Eindhoven / PR - atelier PRO architekten
Formerly called the Tweede Technische School, this striking building from the post-war reconstruction era on Eindhoven's ring road is visible from quite some distance away. As you get closer, you see two prominent new structures 'peeking out' from either side of the classic four-storey building, heightening... read more
University College North / ADEPT + Friis & Moltke
UCN Campus in Aalborg (DK) is a vision of an educational hub bringing together several specialized study programs under one roof. Faced with the demands for an alternative and sustainable learning environment, ADEPT and Friis & Moltke have worked closely with both staff and students to design a building that... read more
DE ARK / Architecten Groep III
Primary school ‘De Ark’ is housed in an old monastery. Over time several renovations and extensions were added to this historic building before Architecten Groep III was assigned to develop a vision for the school on the longer term. To give an answer to the duality of the asked functions... read more
Bedaux-Nagengast Residence / Bedaux de Brouwer Architecten
Thomas Bedaux of Bedaux de Brouwer Architecten designed this single family residence for his family on the edge of a residential area in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Recent changes in the zoning plan yielded a previously non existing lot that is situated at the intersection of three distinctly different worlds... read more
W008 / Atelier Vens Vanbelle
The design of this house was determined by two striking factors: first, the plot is enclosed by other plots, and secondly the clients plan to have lots of children. The plot can be accessed via a narrow road which leads to an enclosed piece of land adjacent to the backs of the gardens of the neighbors. As it is... read more
Totem House / Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]
![Totem House / Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]](/images/projects/totem-house-reza-aliabadi-rzlbd/totem-house-reza-aliabadi-rzlbd.jpg "Totem House / Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]")
Robert and John are travellers. They collect sculptures by local artists and bring them home. They have a keen eye for modernism and minimal design and they don’t settle for ordinary. They love cooking and they avoid the unnecessary. In building their home, rzlbd respects their curiosity for style... read more
Moravian Church / 70F architecture
It took the parishioners 15 years to save enough money to start with their church project. In 2006 they approached 70F architecture. After a long design process, which was accompanied by intense consultation with the client, the design could be presented to the strict supervision committee of the district... read more
Frederiksbjerg School / Henning Larsen Architects
Frederiksbjerg School is the first new-built school located in the center of Aarhus, the second largest city in Denmark, in approximately 100 years. The new school, which also houses a daycare facility and a youth club, is built on the site of former school, Sct. Annagades School. For decades... read more
38 Housing Units / Avenier Cornejo Architectes
The geographical location of the site and the program of the ZAC "Entrance of the city” have for ambition the development of a continuity between Paris and Clichy‐la‐Garenne. The proposed density of the plot is much greater than that of bordering parcels, giving it an accentuated urban look and echoing the... read more
Five Trees / YounghanChung Architects
The trees disappeared without a trace. They probably had been settled like sardines along the topography of the mountain a long time ago. The place got filled with artificial trees of different height and size, placed in a proper distance from each other. Between the distance, a southern sea breeze would... read more
Ericpol Software Pool / HORIZONE Studio
The history of the project dates back to December 2011 when Ericpol, one of Poland’s largest ICT companies, purchased a derelict plot in the centre of Lodz at the junction of Sienkiewicza street and Tymienieckiego street. It used to be the site of the Olimpia swimming pool, popular in communist times... read more
BRICK-TOPIA / MAP13
"Brick-topia", by the architects Map13 Barcelona (www.map13bcn.com), is the winning project in the "Build-it" category at the International Festival of Architecture Eme3 held from the 27th to 30th of June in Barcelona. It could be visited during summer 2013 at one of the courtyards of the former factory... read more
Pärnu City Center Sports Hall / KAVAKAVA Architects
The sports hall is located in the courtyard of an existing school, in a park near the town centre of Pärnu. The structure accommodates a hall large enough for two basketball courts, service spaces and changing rooms, providing gymnasium facilities for three local schools. The building has a strong... read more
Kingswood School Classrooms / Mitchell Eley Gould Architects
Mitchell Eley Gould won a competition to design a new teaching block for eight new classrooms, and three departmental resource areas for Kingswood School in Bath. The site is located within both the Conservation Area and the World Heritage designation. The teaching block is located adjacent to the Ferens building... read more
Poroscape / Younghan Chung + studio Archiholic
We cannot exclude the probability that our urban area might degenerate into a faceless city unawares consequent on ideational identity incurred by prevailing outward appearance with no difference through indiscriminate duplication and the influence of the Western trend spreading temporarily. It's not an easy job to decide on the outward appearance of architecture, i.e. skin, especially in case of renovation of structures because there should be... read more
The Rock / Design band YOAP
The ground of ‘a pointing hand’ form is seated on the top of the hill in Sangsu-dong area, Seoul. Just as like the name of the region meaning ‘the town above the river’, it is looking down Han River from the top. A cliff of 6m height is dividing ‘the pointing finger’ part above and ‘the hand part below... read more
Crystal Houses / MVRDV
Placed in between Amsterdam’s famous museum area and the popular Vondel Park, P.C. Hooftstraat is currently known as The Netherland’s most expensive shopping street. Over the course of decades, it has transformed itself from sober social housing to a high-end shopping experience. But this... read more
Saint-Camillus / Stramien cvba
The current assisted living site Sint-Camillus is located in the interior of the building on the Markgravelei. The green inner area is a remnant of the old monastery. Even though the monastery disappeared, it left its historical mark. The master plan aims to connect this garden with the surrounding streets... read more
46-09 Eleventh St / GF 55 Partners
46-09 Eleventh St is a six-story multi-family apartment building in Long Island City, New York. The goal was to construct a high livability, amenity rich, and contextual building that helps to elevate the neighborhood. Long Island City was rezoned from an industrial neighborhood to allow residential development... read more
Day-care and Young workers Hostel ZAC DES LILAS / Avenier Cornejo Architectes
The new RIVP (Paris public housing agency) building houses three services: a hostel for immigrants, a hostel for young workers, a 66 place day-care on the ground floor, as well as communal facilities . Located in Paris’ 20th arrondissement, just beyond the beltway, it is both Parisian and Lilasian. The... read more
New Settlement Community Campus / Dattner Architects
The New Settlement Community Campus occupies a busy urban block at the corner of Jerome Avenue and Goble Place in the Bronx, NY. The truss and cantilever of the library over the school’s main entrance reflect elements of the elevated subway line adjacent to the school. Overlapping systems and program... read more
Pyrus House / ‘Snow AIDe
Pyrus House was started from the desire of home theater. The client determined to go to suburban area of Ansung City, where is 80Km away from the central Seoul. Ansung is famous for pear production. A pear orchard is adjoined about 2M below the east side of the site. The condition of the site is a linear... read more
the Bluecoat / Hans van der Heijden Architect
Hans van der Heijden made a design for the extension and restoration of Bluecoat Chambers, the oldest building of Liverpool. It houses a number of art galleries, a theatre, a restaurant, shops and several workshops and practice spaces for artists. The new wing continues the brick architecture of the monument... read more
F-Coffee / Wangstudio
F - coffee was designed based on the basic concept of minimalism , brick , concrete ,stone floor , trees and water to create a concise and emotional space. There are three main spatial layers, the first layer is a garden space with trees and water; the second one is a corridor with direct connection with... read more
University of Tartu Narva College / KAVAKAVA Architects
PNarva is a border city between Russia and Estonia. Prosperity of the city was in 17th century, when under the Swedish reign new baroque-style city center was developed. The Old Town was destroyed during WWII and after when it was demolished and replaced with modernist city. After the war local people... read more
Pangbourne College Boarding House / Mitchell Eley Gould Architects
Pangbourne College’s St George boarding house is a forty-seven bed house with staff accommodation. The scheme is designed to provide high quality living space for the girls to reflect the homely and inviting aspirations of the College. The house is located in a quiet neighborhood and is 30 years... read more
The Museum of War and the Women's Human Rights / Wise Architecture
This museum does not have a nice entrance, a lobby, a kind information desk or a large exhibition space. The Museum of War and Woman's Human Rights sits deep in a residential area of Sungsan-Dong, and has only one door that is smaller than a normal-sized gate of a house. There is no big signboard telling us... read more
Mortuary at Asker Crematorium / C-V. Hølmebakk
The mortuary is an addition to Asker crematorium and chapel, built in the late nineteen fifties*. The program is a coffin receiving room (ceremony room), a room for preparation of the corpse, and an outdoor court. The small entrance area connecting the mortuary to the old building, serves as a place to... read more
Residenza le Stelle / Buzzi studio di architettura
Solduno is a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the historical centre of Locarno, southern Switzerland. I grew up a few steps from here, in an area of eclectic early 20th century bourgeois mansions and brick condos from the 1960s. Today most of those early-to mid 20th century buildings, have given way to... read more
Carmel College / PR - atelier PRO architekten
Atelier PRO has designed a completely new learning environment, encompassing both the architecture and interiors, for the senior general (HAVO) and pre-university (VWO) students at Carmel College in Raalte. The landscape design was made in collaboration with Oase Stedenbouw en Landschap urban planning... read more
Morgenzonlaan / Hans van der Heijden Architect
A mixed used scheme was designed for the developer/ contractor ERA Contour. Efficient town houses were used throughout the scheme. Differences in block size are solved in corner types with special spatial arrangements and patios. A slender point block marks the end of Kaapstraat, an important local through-road. Materials, colours... read more
Green House / Carter Williamson Architects
The site falls by two storeys from Hartley St to the lane at the rear; creating a unified living plane was one of the key design gestures in this project. Kitchen, living and dining engage with the courtyard-like garden with a studio sitting atop the garage at the rear boundary, creating an amphitheatre back to the main house... read more
Kings College Library / Mitchell Eley Gould Architects
Mitchell Eley Gould Architects were commissioned to design a new library at Kings College with the aspiration of the school librarian to raise the grades of the pupils in the school by at least 10%. A vibrant contemporary space was designed to inspire an “iPod” generation using technology where appropriate and... read more
Condo Whale / Studio Arthur Casas
This condo is located in front of Baleia beach, sitting between a large rainforest reserve in the mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. These are weekend houses, with layouts that stimulate social interaction and blend spaces developed through diagonal relations. To ensure privacy, each one of the four units was... read more
H 1115-7 / A.E.A _ Atelier Espa:ce Architectes
This project began from the relationship of the site and the surrounding context. In a small scale residential area with 3 story buildings, how is this project coming to anchor on the site? And, which kind of materials are applied to the volumes that contain programs requested by the client? How this project have ... read more
Lakerlopen / Hans van der Heijden Architect
Of old, people use the street for living in Lakerlopen garden city. The urbanists of MUST proposed to reconstruct one part of the district with a square, a court, an alley, streets and a green boulevard. The conventional urban spaces was further developed by Hans van der Heijden’s design of equally conventional house... read more
L_Square House / Wise Architecture
The site is located near UnjungCheon at W. Pangyo City where the space is open towards North and South. At a glance, it seems the building exterior is all covered up with bricks but as you review deeply, the ground floor level opens up in L shape to communicate with the exterior space. This characteristic of... read more
Women’s Opportunity Center / Sharon Davis Design
On a two-hectare site in Rwanda, the most densely populated country in Africa, the Women’s Opportunity Center is empowering one small community and, in turn, rewriting our role as designers. One hour from the Rwandan capital of Kigali, Kayonza is like much of this strife-torn nation: a place with few... read more
Employment Academy / Peter Barber Architects
The Employment Academy is a state of the art education and advice centre in Southwark. It offers skills training and support services for long term workless people with the intention of helping them back into sustainable employment. The scheme is laid out around a delightful courtyard formed on two sides by a new... read more
Fortress Brick House / Wise Architecture
Sindang-dong was located near Gwanghuimun Gate where dead bodies usually came out from the Hanyang City Wall and a lot of shamans have lived around that neighborhood. It was told that due to these circumstances, the name of this town was originated from 'Sindang' which means 'a Spiritual... read more
Auditorium AZ Groeninge Kortrijk / Dehullu Architecten
The auditorium is part of a meeting centre that is situated on the site of the general hospital of AZ Groeninge in Kortrijk, Belgium. The hospital itself and all of the infrastructure is designed on a strict cartesian grid. Compared to the hospital the auditorium is only a tiny... read more
It started with a dime / Studio Wessels Boer
The ‘dime houses’ from 1870 were one of the first social housing projects in the Netherlands. They are the result of a group of idealistic workers who, by asking a dime a week for membership, founded in 1868 the Building Society for Home Ownership (BVEW). The little houses are situated... read more
Brick Neighbourhood / dekleva gregorič architects
How to establish a clear spatial, material and social identity of a neighbourhood? This question was the basic principle when developing the design of structures and their surroundings in terms of a deeper connection of future residents with their living environment. The concept of 3D... read more
Termeh Office-Commercial Building / Farshad Mehdizadeh Architects + Ahmad Bathaei
This project is located in Hamedan, one of Iranian historical cities. Hamedan has active urban space which is characterized by squares and an important north-south urban axis which connects them together. This axis cross the site from the western side. The brief was designing a two floor... read more
Cowshed House / Carter Williamson Architects
The cowshed sat on a small parcel of land bounded on three sides by roads. The building was simple, essentially a long brick wall that held the urban edge of corner and street and returned to house a few bedrooms in the place of the former stalls. It was the most basic of accommodation but the shed... read more
Hessenberg / Hans van der Heijden Architect
Hessenberg is a spot in the inner city of Nijmegen with a rich history which can be traced back to the Roman Occupation. In recent centuries the site has been occupied by monasteries and the regional newspaper De Gelderlander. Within a masterplan by Bob van Reeth four blocks were developed... read more
Mount Pleasant / Peter Barber Architects
Mount Pleasant is a beautiful new sheltered housing project for homeless people set within a secluded and peaceful suntrap courtyard close to Gray’s Inn Road and High Holborn. Residents of homeless hostels are among the most vulnerable people in society. A significant proportion of... read more
District Water Board Brabantse Delta / KAAN Architecten
Rather than the arrival of a new office building, the realization of the headquarters of the Brabantse Delta water board signifies a new lease of life for the century-old country estate (first mentioned late 14th century), and an important symbol for the landscape at the South of Breda. With its new... read more
ABC Building / Wise Architecture
The ABC Building is located around Sunjung-Reung which is a beautiful park which has royal tombs of Chosun dynasty in Kang-nam area in Korea. The boastful - glaring buildings in Kang-nam block view from the site to the royal tombs park while the roof of five story building suddenly opens view to... read more
Escher Terraces / E2A
Terraced housing refers to the countless suburban proposals seeking to maximize views with their slopes. Surprisingly, these proposals are often far removed from an uncompromising belief in the city. They line the outskirts of urban configurations, jostling to assert themselves... read more
Spiegel Haus / Carter Williamson Architects
The Spiegel Haus is home to a young family and a home-away-from-home for a string of overseas visitors, so it was important to our clients that the spaces be not just beautiful, but restful, robust and low-maintenance. With frequent guests and a house operating across three levels... read more
Garden Shed and Workshop / C-V. Hølmebakk
The garden shed and workshop was designed in connection to the house in which the private library was built four years earlier. The program was a general storage space for garden tools, and a small workshop for household repairs. The narrow site on the north side of the house was surrounded by... read more
Oranjeboomstraat / Hans van der Heijden Architect
Oranjeboomstraat is a long avenue running through the Feijenoord Rotterdam district. Once it was a stately lane with narrowly parcelled housing on both sides. Larger public buildings, such as churches and schools, introduced variety to this repetitive pattern. Especially on the north side of... read more
Rabbit Hole / Lens°Ass Architects
The old farm house comprises five buildings and is located on a unique site in close proximity to the Gaasbeek Castle. What strategy needs to be developed to revive a dilapidated building without reconstructing it in a nostalgic manner? The decisive question is how such a homestead can be adapted... read more
4x12 Atelier / USE Studio
Today with the fast growth of the population in developing countries like Iran, cities are getting bigger and homes and residential spaces are getting smaller. On the one hand, vertical constructions have increased and, on the other hand one unit houses with yards are being replaced by the apartment complexes... read more
Wood House / Brininstool + Lynch
Designing this Chicago residence was an exercise in creating privacy within an urban neighborhood while providing an abundance of open, bright space. The first floor is defined by clear views from the landscape in front to the courtyard at back. The second floor has private spaces with northern and eastern... read more
The Barn / Make Architects
Designed by Make Architects, The Barn is Make’s first completed brick building and was developed in response to the University’s 2008 masterplan for the 100-acre Sutton Bonington campus. The plan sought to establish a new amenities building which would have a legible configuration... read more
The Antica Bottega Amanuense / Henry Màlleus
During this technological era, The Antica Bottega Amanuense (The Antique Amanuensis Workshop) goes against the tide and remains one of the most unusual, refined and famous jewels of the town of Recanati in the Marche region of Italy. The Antica Bottega Amanuense was founded in 1988 by Enrico Ragni, known... read more
Swedish Brickhouse / FREEK ARCHITECTEN
A client with a passion for Scandinavia, who wants to build ecological and with a pure contemporary style, is a dream for every architect. Typical Swedish elements, such as material, archetype, plan organization, … or studied in detail and given a Belgian twist. The house is build with passive standard... read more
Landmark Nieuw Bergen / MONADNOCK
In a landscape where every small village can be identified from afar by the silhouette of its church tower, Nieuw-Bergen was lacking such a clear landmark. Recently, this need was provided by the completion of a landmark building as part of the village renewal plan. This 'Landmark' forms the nucleus of the plan and... read more
K 001 NOTARIAAT / Atelier Vens Vanbelle
The building site is situated at the end of a small street in the small village of Horebeke in the Flemish Ardennes, next to a restaurant. The view from the site is splendid: the landscape slopes slowly and offers an overview to an untouched agricultural area spread over two kilometers... read more
House BVA / dmvA
Brick as knitting-work. A sore spot in the streetscape is mended by a simple, shallow building-volume consisting of two layers with saddle roof. The pretty closed facade, built in brick, is a response on request of the owners for privacy on street side. The appliance of brick as knitting-work in front of the windows... read more
The History of Bricks and Brickmaking
Man has used brick for building purpose for thousands of years. Bricks date back to 7000 BC, which makes them one of the oldest known building materials. They were discovered in southern Turkey at the site of an ancient settlement around the city of Jericho. The first bricks, made in areas with warm climates, were mud bricks dried in the sun for hardening. Ancient Egyptian... read more
What is a joint?
Masonry mortar is used in classic masonry. Open joints of about 10 to 15 mm wide are formed between the bricks. At the end of the working day about 15 to 20 mm of this masonry mortar is scraped out, which creates the necessary space for filling up the facade with a joint mortar. A joint mortar... read more
Types of joints
The form of the joint also influences the appearance of a facade. Of course the height of the joint plays an important role, but the depth is also important. The deeper the joint, the more it will end up in the background. This creates a shadow play between the joint and the facing brick,which especially... read more
Joint colours
When you choose to carry out a classic masonry instead of gluing the bricks, then the joint very much determines the end result. Depending on the brick size that is used, 10 to 20% of the facade can consist of joints. Determining the colour of the joint is a choice that may take up quite some time. After... read more
No joints
When you choose the purely brick effect the joint is a disrupting factor. Increasingly more contractors choose to create a facade without joints. There are 3 known methods for creating a masonry without joints: 1. Bricklaying with thin set mortar 2. Gluing together 3. Traditional masonry with... read more
Brickwork bonds
The way in which a brick is laid – the brickwork bond – also strongly influences the appearance of the facade. A well thoughtout brickwork bond gives projects extra style and character. Brickwork bonds not only have an aesthetic effect; The choice in brickwork bond can also influence the budget... read more
The Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre / Renato Rizzi
It has taken almost a quarter of a century, but now the Shakespearean Theatre in the city of Gdansk (Poland) is open to the public. Architect Renato Rizzi (Italy) used black facing bricks and pavers. This is how he created a new shade and a contrast in the predominantly red brick town... read more
Termitary House / Tropical Space
As builders go, termites do not have many tools at their disposal — just their bodies, soil, and saliva. For guidance they have nothing to go on save variations in wind speed and direction and fluctuations in temperature as the sun rises and sets. Similarly, the Termitary House was built in... read more
Family House In Pavilniai Regional Park / Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners
The customer is a banker and antique book collector. A four member family house. In the Middle Ages the area, where the building is situated, was a cannon foundry. Customers bought a site where stood the old yellow brick lodge with a basement. Cleaning the plaster of a house revealed that the... read more
Villa el Libertador Municipal Hospital / Santiago Viale + Ian Dutari + Alejandro Paz
The project is a medium complexity hospital located south of the city of Cordoba, in the populous Villa el Libertador neighborhood. The building responds to a need for health services for a vast section of the lower-middle class population. The project is expressed as a "mono-material... read more
Sala Ayutthaya / Onion
Sala Ayutthaya is the twenty-six-room boutique hotel, right across a most picturesque site of the old capital of Thailand along the Chao Phraya River. Phutthai Sawan Temple was built in 1353 AD by the first monarch of Ayutthaya Kingdom. It becomes the view of the restaurant and... read more
House in Sang-an / studio GAON
This house lies deep in mountain at an altitude of 600 meters. Though altitude isn't that high, there wasn’t any reception of GPS nor cell phone signal, which made us more aware of its remote location. The young couple, who came to us for design of... read more
Gemeinde / Stefan Forster Architekten
The Western Harbour – located in the south-western not far from Frankfurt’s city centre and ten minutes to walk from the main train station – was until recently an unattractive “non-place”: a 124,000 square meter area with an elongated offshore jetty lost its importance and function as... read more
The Torre del Baró / Jordi Farrando
The Torre del Baró was built around 1904. It is located in one of the crest lines of the Collserola hills and, despite its residential origin, seems to be a fortification of historicist style. It is visible from much of the northeastern sector of Barcelona and has views over the city and the interior valleys of the... read more
Sol 25 / Proyecto Cafeína
Sol 25 is a single family house in San Pedro Cholula Puebla, Mexico. It is located in a residential subdivision on the outskirts of the city, adjacent to Cerro Zapoteca, a protected nature reserve. It emerges as a dwelling with the premise of creating spaces... read more
San Francisco Building / José Cubilla
The residential building SAN FRANCISCO is located in Jara neighborhood of Asuncion. A traditional neighborhood of housing with courtyard, hills and ceramic; leafy trees, shadows and views. Our architectural decisions try to understand and... read more
Quarter of Nations / Gerber Architekten
The district that is the location of the development, the Wilhelmsburg district, is situated within the city of Hamburg between two arms of the Elbe – the Norderelbe and the Süderelbe-Köhlbrand branch. The neighbourhood, which is in the south part of the Reihersteig quarter, is characterized by a traditional... read more
Ngamwongwan House / Junsekino Architect and Design
‘Sometimes, an ordinary brick wishes to be something beyond itself.” These words truly portray the potential of an ordinary material; the comprehension of a material which is considered as the petite component that can be composed as the architecture. The initiation of the project with the primary concept... read more
New Swimming Center in Brescia / Camillo Botticini + Francesco Craca + Arianna Foresti + Studio Montanari + Nicola Martinoli
The project for the realization of the Brescia’s swimming center, is located in the district of Mompiano in the north part of the city, near the football stadium. The volume is characterized as an urban architecture, open to a specific relationship with the sorroundings... read more
Loke Thye Kee Residences / Ministry of Design
Loke Thye Kee Residences is situated in the heart of Georgetown Penang, one of 5 Malaysian UNESCO world sites rich in heritage. MOD’s design draws inspiration from this heritage and specifically the historic Loke Thye Kee restaurant, its 100-year-old namesake and... read more
Living-Garden House In Katowice / KWK Promes
Living-garden house is a type of home, where its living space integrates with nature completely. We live in thegarden during the day and enclose in the home's cocoon at night. Living-Garden Home attempts at redefining the single-family house to integrate architecture with nature. The classic household... read more
House in Burst / De Smet Vermeulen architecten
The house stands along a country road between two parish churches on a large stretch of land sloping down toward the street. What should a country house look like today - the question was immanent. One would expect a small cottage parallel to the road with a barn behind it. We wanted something just as... read more
House HEN / Enplus Architecten
This 3-facade house is located on a somewhat remote road. The shape of the building plot led us to organizing the outdoor spaces (terrace and pool) in front of the house. Hence, the back of the house is standing on the boundary, where you can enjoy a wide view over the fields behind... read more
Kalasataman Huvilat Townhouses / PORTAALI architects Ltd + ArkOpen Ltd
Kalasatama is a new residential and business district build on a former harbor area adjacent to Helsinki inner city. Kalasatama will be a dense urban district that will offer versatile housing opportunities from high rise buildings to townhouses. Kalasataman Huvilat was built as a part of... read more
Westvleteren Community Center / Atelier Tom Vanhee
The complex of buildings consists of successive constructions, ranging from a 19th century school building and an old town hall to an industrial construction from the 1990s. The dilapidated storage building makes place for enlargement of the meeting hall... read more
Residence for Charis / Biome Environmental Solutions
The home is located in the outskirts of Bangalore at the edge of the garden around the park adjoining a lake. Since the plot is a corner one the home is designed so that it can be viewed from both the sides. As one walks around the building it reveals its characters... read more
House in Los Molinos / BIAGIONI_PECORARI Arquitectos
In an area of 30 x 30 meters in a closed neighborhood, we were commissioned a weekend house for a family of parents and three children. With a limited budget, the project strategy was conceived in two stages: in the first it works as a house with swimming pool for the day and... read more
House of Memory / baukuh
The “House of Memory” is an archive as well as an exhibition and conference space in Milan. It is the headquarter of five cultural associations whose aim is to preserve the memory of the conquest of freedom and democracy in Italy: the National Association of... read more
The Alpine Place / Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt
Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt completes £25m mixed-use scheme in North West London. Alpine Place scheme redevelops a former 1.4ha light industrial estate in Brent, creating an inclusive and thriving community while acting as a catalyst for the wider regeneration of the local area.... read more
Ro House / Alexanderson Arquitectos
The land where the project is located is a private residential zone with very specific regulations. The architectural approach allows an uneven distribution squad that offers service areas across the boundaries of the land, allowing a free flow and generating one of the major elements in the house; the central courtyard... read more
Aperture / Admun Design & Construction Studio
Located to the east of Tehran in a harsh industrial setting, Steel Form Factory’s multi-purpose building is aimed at providing a pleasant space fulfilling several functions, comprising of two offices, two residential units, a showroom and several locker rooms. When the architects were commissioned the job, the first... read more
The Parish Church of the Celestial Queen / 4 plusz Építész Stúdió
The Parish Church of Celestial Queen got its new place in an eclectic building at the Szent István square in Budapest. As a result of an agreement between the local government and the religious community, the Catholic parsonage has moved into the building formerly housing the Erkel Ferenc Music School... read more
Pinar House / MO+G Taller de Arquitectura
The project is located within a subdivision adjacent to one of the most important lungs of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, the forest of La Primavera. With an area of 2.578m2 and dense vegetation consisting mainly of pine and oak trees, the site hosted a series of abandoned structures about... read more
Student Residence in Paris / LAN Architecture
The project is composed by several buildings, the volumes and voids they occupy depends on the surrounding context. On the street, three six-storey volumes are separated by two rifts providing access to the residence and vertical circulation. The heights of the buildings at the back of the plot vary according... read more
DATRI & DASA House / [mavarq] Marco Velázquez ARQ
![DATRI & DASA House / [mavarq] Marco Velázquez ARQ](/images/home/news/datri-dasa-house-mavarq-marco-velazquez-arq.jpg "DATRI & DASA House / [mavarq] Marco Velázquez ARQ")
DASA house required continuous open spaces, a complete physical and visual communication with exterior areas, a full room with independent access from the main home, and an upstairs entertainment area accessible and communicated from every other space in the home. The materials used were to be minimal... read more
Cubo House / PHOOEY Architects
Originally, the house was entered via a dark, stuffy corridor located under a staircase. In its place, a new welcoming entry foyer now opens into a sunlight drenched multi-level void with natural ventilation. Centrally located in the re-planned house, a feature stair climbs & descends between three levels... read more
Piazza Céramique / Jo Janssen Architecten
As one of the last urban blocks to be realized in the ‘Ceramique – Area’ of Maastricht the scheme does not opt for the here common solution of the closed perimeter block, but employs a spatial strategy in which urban space is opened up. Through strategically placing 3 volumes it not only makes that... read more
Day Care in Zsámbék / Földes Architects
We mixed the functionally strict floor plan of the créche with a traditional and community building space form – the cloister. We’ve placed the group rooms and the central multifunctional space around the cloister. This way the créche became appropriate for developing relationship between parents... read more
Østerbrogade 105 / C. F. Møller Architects
Østerbro is a middle-class area close to Copenhagen city centre, situated just north of the lakes which divide the medieval town from the city of the industrial age. Seen from the air, Østerbro is a typical residential district from the end of the 19th century. The area is densely built up, with large, closed blocks... read more
Fitzjames Teaching and Learning Centre / Feilden Fowles
The Fitzjames Teaching and Learning Centre, Hazlegrove School by Feilden Fowles has won an RIBA South West Award 2015 and the RIBA South West Client of the Year Award 2015. The jury commented that the ‘building is a testament to the fact that the client - architect relationship was extremely... read more
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
The Brick House / iSTUDIO architecture
The brick house has been inspired by both the philosophies and the works of Laurie Baker and Nari Gandhi. Each room flows into another, leading into a seamless space held by the central courtyard. Climatology and the solar path, along with... read more
Molenplein / Tony Fretton Architects Ltd
Located in the northern Dutch town of Den Helder, the project occupies a long site between two canals, the Helderskanaal and Werfkanaal where it looks out onto Den Helder’s fine Napoleonic naval yard. West 8’s masterplan for the... read more
Charcoal House / Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]
![Charcoal House / Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]](/images/home/news/charcoal-house-reza-aliabadi-rzlbd.jpg "Charcoal House / Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]")
Charcoal House, situated in Pape and Danforth neighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, is deceivingly presenting a raucous box. The randomly patterned square windows on its façade and the hidden entrance door at the corner of the building are elements that not only make it... read more
Casa Los Algarrobos / MasFernandez Arquitectos and Claudio Tapia
Located on Chicureo's valley of the Metropolitan Region of Chile, on an urbanization surrounded by native vegetation. The house’s plan is deployed along the plot and it propounds two broken faces; one of... read more
The Curving House / JOHO Architecture
The mountains penetrate the sky and the sky contains the mountains as nature. Here, the mountains form lines and the lines remember the mountains in the land. The terrains of Mt. Gwanggyo flow low above the lot and the lot displays the entire view as if it responds to the graceful flow. At this site, the land is the proof of space and everything about... read more
Grenswerk Poppodium / van Dongen Koschuch
Grenswerk, part of the medieval city on the Maas river, is to become the future creative and cultural heart of Venlo. Specifically the parceling, typical of old town structures, was advised by the urban plan of AWG, as being a carrier of new architectural developments... read more
Boa Canteen / D’Houndt+Bajart Architects & Associates
When I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book called True Stories, about the primeval forest. It represented a boa constrictor swallowing a big cat. In the book it said: “Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that, they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion”.... read more
Fire Station / Bekkering Adams Architecten
A new home for the Fire Brigade : Fire Station Doetinchem combines sustainability , functionality and an attractive working and living environment in a green oasis. The Fire Brigade Achterhoek West Doetinchem is 24 hours operational and the building houses a mix of functions for working, living and sleeping facilities. A spatial development with... read more
Chapel of St.Lawrence / Avanto Architects Ltd
The Vantaa Parish Union held an open architectural competition in 2003 for the design of a new chapel in the vicinity of the historic Church of St. Lawrence. The winning entry, out of 194 proposals, was ‘Polku’ (‘Path’) by Avanto Architects. The old stone church with its bell tower remain the dominant features in the landscape. The chapel has been divided in smaller parts to... read more
Casa en Pilar / Film Obras De Arquitectura
This minimal house was conceived as a sole flexible space. A tube shaped form connects the green plaza across the street with the expansion at the back. This space is conformed by the wrap of 3 faces which have the same constant width and... read more
BOMEL Slaughterhouse / BAEB Bureau d’Architectes Emmanuel Bouffioux
BAEB was recently awarded first prize in the competition for a re-organization of the former Bomel slaughterhouse area in Namur (Belgium). The former Bomel slaughterhouse is now part of a cultural area with an extensive history and an exceptional character in a comic strip museum shall be to visit, a public park and another older house for a future occupation. In the existing... read more
Allenmoos Schoolhouse II / Boltshauser Architekten AG
The school pavilion next to the Allenmoos schoolhouse, constructed by Jacob Pardutt in 1958, was originally intended to give way to a new remedial pedagogic school. However, this school was never realized, and the existing pavilion was... read more
63 Compton Street / Doone Silver Architects
Located in the heart of Clerkenwell, London, 63 Compton Street is a newly completed 4-storey apartment building, created for Nord Development. Replacing a 2-storey electrical substation, the scheme adjoins a listed former public house and responds sensitively to the constraints of a... read more
House Stein / Jan Rosler Architekten
The clients had acquired a barn building that had stood unused for years. Their plan for the time being was to convert it into a holiday home, but they were consider- ing the possibility of eventually moving into it for good. The greatest challenge presented by the basic concept lay in retaining the existing facade openings and... read more
The house of Clay and Oak - Poplar Cottage / Dow Jones Architects
Poplar Cottage is a small house on The Green in Walberswick built in the early 1920s. Over the past eighty years a number of piecemeal extensions had resulted in a peculiar internal organisation that cut the house off from its garden. Our brief was... read more
