Brick facade

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Project • By Leigh Azriel Interior Design • Housing

The Breeze Block House

Interior designer Leigh Azriel transformed a modest single-story semi-detached house into a 260sqm, four-level home that clearly separates living areas, bedrooms, and a private rental unit. Shiran Carmel The redesign highlights a strong material palette of exposed concrete, breeze blocks, and wood, creating a balance between rugged textures and warmth while responding to the Mediterranean climate. Shiran Carmel A striking concrete breeze block façade provides privacy, shade, and dynamic natural light patterns, while a double-height space, bold concrete walls, and a custom woven light fixture enhance the home’s architectural presence. Shiran Carmel Organized across four levels—from open-plan communal spac... More

Project • By Raving Dots Studio • Private Houses

Shreyas

Located in the tranquil village of Velloor in Kerala’s Kottayam district, this residence is a modernist response to its tropical setting. Clean lines, honest materials, and a restrained formal language define the architecture — yet, layered within this clarity is a play between geometric rigidity and organic softness. The house invites not only light and air but also emotion and texture. Caption Spatial Arrangement: The home is organized across two floors and includes four attached bedrooms designed to offer privacy without detachment. At the center of the house is a dining space that spills into a courtyard — a vital pause that blurs the line between the interior and the outdoors. This semi-open courtyard becomes a... More

Project • By Edoardo Milesi & Archos • Rural

Borgo Banditaccia

Set along the ridge of a Maremma hillside, between two valleys and in visual dialogue with the distant fortress of Magliano in Tuscany, Borgo Banditaccia is restored as a unified organism. A rural settlement that shaped the agricultural landscape for over a century, later reduced to a fragmented presence, now re-emerges through a project that weaves together architecture, landscape, and the human dimension of living. Andrea Ceriani The intervention is not conceived as a simple renovation, but as a process of reconciliation between rural memory and a contemporary way of inhabiting. The project takes as its generative core the only authentic remnants of the original complex—the vaulted cart tracks and the compact northern volume&m... More

Project • By Admun Studio • Apartments

PODIUM

The project is located in a small industrial city near Tehran, shaped by challenging economic and social conditions, with its landscape dominated by warehouses, trucks, laborers, construction noise, environmental debris, airborne particulates, and monotonous buildings. Parham Taghioff Parham Taghioff As urbanization progresses and migration to the capital increases, the growth of industrial towns on Tehran’s outskirts has become inevitable. Qods City exemplifies this trend, where vacant land has been rapidly replaced by residential developments. Within this industrial backdrop, we now witness the coexistence of three distinct conditions: residential buildings in purely residential contexts, residential buildings within indu... More

Project • By van Bergen Kolpa architects • Offices

De Wybert Hilversum

The monument and former expedition building of the old Wybertjes factory is located on the Larenseweg in Hilversum. The manufacturer of the diamond-shaped pastilles, who moved to Almere in 1981, left behind a monumental factory building. In close consultation with the client and the municipality, we restored the building and turned it into an office building, while retaining its monumental character and with an energy label A. Chiel van Diest Chiel van Diest In the urban planning request, a single volume was drawn next to the monument. It is our ambition to create an attractive living environment with room for social interaction. By creating a courtyard enclosed by three new buildings and the monument, a friendly garden is create... More

News • News • 10 Jan 2025

Kirkland Fraser Moor adopts biophilic approach to design of picturesque Foxglove House

Multidisciplinary architectural studio Kirkland Fraser Moor (KFM) has adopted a biophilic approach to the design of a low-carbon family home in the English village of Wiggington, Hertfordshire. The picturesque residence, named Foxglove House, replaces a small stable block, its unobtrusive design having a low visual impact on the surrounding landscape. KFM’s effective approach to massing and orientation resulted in a fourfold increase in the new home’s footprint (gross internal floor area 285 square meters – 3,068 square feet) without any adverse impact on the green belt or “AONB” countryside location. Edmund Sumner Kirkland Fraser Moor The home’s design concept centers around a single-s... More

Project • By Studio Hu'mane • Private Houses

ANGAN (COURTYARD) HOUSE

In the heart of every home, the Angan stands as a sacred court. It is a personal yet a public space that witnesses the playful childhoods, festive celebrations, gatherings and even tranquility for one. This project does an honest attempt to re-introduce the idea of court in the design, amalgamating it with the modern needs. Rahul Shah Rahul Shah The client spent their early days in the old city of Pune. The process started with taking references from the core city, the site being located nearby. Two distinct  fabrics seen  on either side of the Mutha river : the old, dense fabric and the new, scattered development. Despite its density, the old fabric has developed organically and therefore lacks defined boundaries. Narr... More

News • News • 26 Nov 2024

Tree Courtyard House by ao–ft brings contemporary flair to small backland site

In Walthamstow, East London, a single-story new-build home brings contemporary flair to a small backland site. Designed by London-based architecture practice ao–ft, “Tree Courtyard House” is constructed from brick and cross-laminated timber (CLT). The home’s L-shaped plan is guided by the site’s mature London Plane tree and root system. ao–ft Rory Gardiner The restricted backland site is located at the end of a laneway,  behind the Walthamstow Village commercial street. It was originally occupied by the large rear kitchen of a restaurant. In 2021, the client, a local property developer, contacted ao–ft with a view to exploring the possibility of building on the site: “T... More

News • News • 14 Nov 2024

New social housing project in East Amsterdam exemplifies urban densification and contextuality

Located in a green and car-free neighbourhood of Amsterdam East, The Alan Turing by Studio Appelo is a social housing building with 20 compact homes for small families, status holders and first-time buyers. This new part of the city exemplifies urban densification by blending social housing with private development.   Peter Mann Firmly rooted in its context, the building establishes a strong connection to the surrounding structures and the public with its 19th-century orange-red brick design. Reinforcing this,  the standard floor plans for the units feature a central axis leading to gardens or balconies. Direct access from the living spaces of the apartment to the square strengthens the connection to public areas while p... More

News • News • 18 Sep 2024

Localworks completes Namabaale Education Centre campus in Uganda

Namabaale Education Centre nestles in the lush and undulating landscape of Lwengo District in the Central Region of Uganda. Designed by Localworks, a Uganda-based studio specializing in the design and construction of contextual green architecture, Namabaale Education Centre is a 3-in-1 primary school campus for 1,000 children (the project is funded by the Cotton On Foundation). Will Boase Photography Localworks Localworks The new education centre’s plan was designed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. “The primary school was intended to be a single primary campus in the original master plan, which was designed prior to the pandemic,” explains Juliana Achi, Graduate Architect at Localworks. &ld... More

News • News • 4 Sep 2024

Key clinker brick facades by Bez + Kock Architekten that blend utilitarian and elegant design

Stuttgart-based bez + kock architekten was established in 2001 by Martin Bez and Thorsten Kock. The studio’s common goal “is to realize unique, functional, and economical buildings.” It strives to create buildings that are heterogeneous and distinguished by a “resource-conscious longevity”. The projects completed by bez + kock architekten offer a sense of architectural clarity — neither ostentatious nor obtrusive, the architecture quietly blends functional and aesthetic qualities. The studio’s building facades, for example, are often utilitarian and elegant: bez + kock architekten makes extensive use of brick in its work, most notably clinker brick, creating facades that are both sober and smart. B... More

News • News • 22 Aug 2024

Maastricht apartment building’s red brickwork references “Amsterdam School” style of architecture

Maastricht-based Martens Willems & Humblé Architecten has completed a new apartment building in the Wyckerpoort neighborhood of Maastricht on the edge of the “Groene Loper” (Green Carpet), a burgeoning green residential and working environment. The apartment building’s red brickwork references the “Amsterdam School” style of architecture. Arjen Schmitz Martens Willems & Humblé Architecten For many years, the residential area of Wyckerpoort was originally sandwiched between a railway line to the west and a highway (introduced in 1959) to the east. Tunneling of the highway provided the foundation for a new green urban boulevard — the five-kilometer-long (three-m... More

Project • By ALEXANDRE BERNIER ARCHITECTE • Private Houses

BNV HOUSE

The BNV residential project explores how soft form can enrich meaning and formal unity, offering a soothing and calm atmosphere amidst the tumult of daily urban life, punctuated by obstacles and disruptions. Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet Maxime Brouillet The building, initially simple and ordinary with its L-shaped form and typical materials of the Montreal, is renovated to harmoniously integrate into the existing urban fabric. Rather than standing out ostentatiously from its neighbors, the emphasis is on the softness, elegance, and sensuality brought by its materiality and form, contrasting with the dominant right angles in the neighborhood. Maxime Brouillet Maxime Bro... More

News • News • 10 Jul 2024

Kivinen Rusanen Architects completes an architectural Finnish substation with custom-made water-struck bricks

Finnish architectural studio Kivinen Rusanen Architects has completed the Tammisto Electricity Substation in Vantaa, a city in southern Finland (around 20 kilometers from Helsinki). This substation has served the Helsinki metropolitan area as a central power grid hub for many decades and its older systems required modernization. The studio’s approach provides an urban infrastructural facility with an architectural quality; the use of custom-made water-struck bricks laid in different masonry patterns imbues the substation with a sense of warmth and depth. Tuomas Kivinen Kivinen Rusanen Architects “The architectural goal was to give a unified appearance to the new and newly improved buildings and structures on t... More

Project • By MRD • Offices

CCI

Its purpose lies in the creation of collaborative and meeting spaces, with an introspective approach that adapts to the surrounding industrial environment.  Camila Cossio Camila Cossio Camila Cossio The design of the pavilion is aimed at generating flexible areas for collaboration and design, as well as meeting spaces that encourage interaction between workers. These aspects are complemented by plant elements that make up a green oasis, acting as a barrier against visual and acoustic pollution. Camila Cossio Camila Cossio Camila Cossio The "H"-shaped arrangement stores blind areas at the ends and transparent areas in the center, allowing unique permeability. The materiality of the pavilion is made up of... More