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Matra spreads multi-generational Indian home across four concrete blocks

October 6, 2023 Katie Last 0

Four concrete volumes topped with pitched roofs run alongside each other to form Prism House, a multi-generational home designed by Indian studio Matra. Located in the south of Delhi, the six-bedroom home was designed to provide private and communal living spaces for three generations of the client’s family. Drawing inspiration from Vastu – a set

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Kurosawa Kawara-Ten turns disused Japanese house into wood-clad office

October 5, 2023 Katie Last 0

Japanese studio Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has used local and recycled materials to transform a vacant house into a workspace named Ichihara Life and Work Commission Office. Located in Japan’s Ichihara City, the office features a double-level workspace as well as spaces for cooking and dining, and was designed with the goal of preserving the features of

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Kennedy Nolan covers L-shaped coastal home in charred timber

October 4, 2023 Katie Last 0

Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. Set in a small town named Somers on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the home was designed to offer a place of retreat for the client’s family and features earthy colours

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O’Sullivan Skoufoglou transforms Berlin bungalow with blocky extension

October 3, 2023 Katie Last 0

A band of limestone separates old and new at Fohlenweg, a house in Berlin that London studio O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects created using the walls of an existing bungalow. The three-storey family home was developed from a single-storey house on the edge of Grunewald Forest and features a pale brick exterior divided by the limestone band.

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Chinese kindergarten designed as “small town” of flexible classrooms

October 2, 2023 Katie Last 0

Winding balconies and outdoor learning spaces feature in Kindergarten of Museum Forest, a curvy building that Chinese studio Atelier Apeiron has added to an existing nursery in Shenzhen. Aiming to challenge typical kindergarten architecture, Atelier Apeiron designed the building to resemble a town, adding a planting around its edges to evoke a small forest. “Children

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Plant-filled courtyard connects steel and stone houses in Sydney

September 24, 2023 Katie Last 0

Australian studio Retallack Thompson has constructed a steel extension for a heritage-listed stone terrace in Sydney and added a second house on the same plot to create a multi-generational family home. Steel House/Stone House was designed to resemble a tiny village, with the original 1830s terrace house and the new freestanding steel-framed building positioned at

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Matharoo Associates wraps concrete home around light-filled stairwell

September 21, 2023 Katie Last 0

A network of cubic concrete volumes and staircases forms Up to the Sea, a blocky family home that Indian studio Matharoo Associates has added to the coastal town of Dumas, India. Nestled into a grassy site near the coast, the home sits on a stone base and was designed to merge traditional Indian design with

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Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter converts derelict carpentry workshop into trio of townhouses

September 17, 2023 Katie Last 0

Architecture studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has replaced a derelict carpentry workshop in Norway with a set of three pastel-coloured townhouses named Sagene Wood Trade. Located in a back garden in northern Oslo, the townhouses accommodate compact timber-filled living spaces arranged across three levels. The development occupies a small site and builds upon an existing carpentry

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Butterfly House by Oliver Leech Architects offers “new model for assisted living”

September 15, 2023 Katie Last 0

A small triangular site guided the geometric form of Butterfly House, an accessible home that London studio Oliver Leech Architects has added to the corner of a garden in Surrey. Nestled within a compact plot on the site of an existing home, the building is designed as future-proof accommodation for the client’s elderly mother and

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Benzene rings inform patterned facades of Ascentage Pharmaceutical Headquarters

September 7, 2023 Katie Last 0

New York studio OLI Architecture used parametric technology to design the decorative facades of this office complex in Suzhou for biotechnology company Ascentage Pharma. The Ascentage Pharmaceutical Headquarters is spread across seven distinct buildings with facades informed by benzene – a molecule composed of six carbon atoms in a ring. Comprising a range of repeating

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