#buildingheritage
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Project • By INNOCAD architecture • Apartments
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APARTMENT RENOVATION WITHIN A HERITAGE-PROTECTED MUNICIPAL HOUSING COMPLEX.
Located in Graz, this apartment forms part of a multi-phase municipal housing ensemble built between 1929 and 1931. Designed in the spirit of Neue Sachlichkeit, the building reflects the functional clarity and social ideals of interwar modernism: restrained horizontal façade articulation, balconies opening toward a green inner courtyard, and a clear, rational architectural language. Today, the building is protected as a listed heritage structure.
Paul Ott
The existing apartment typology is characteristic of historic Altbau dwellings of this period, defined by generous ceiling heights, large living spaces, and comparatively small service rooms. Ev... More
Project • By Moxon Architects • Heritages
Royal Picnic Cottage
A picnic cottage enjoyed by Queen Victoria when holidaying in Balmoral has been restored to its former glory by Moxon for The National Trust for Scotland. The project will preserve the building for future generations to enjoy and engage with its history and the surrounding landscape.
© Ben Addy
Located amongst native woodland on the Mar Lodge Estate National Nature Reserve near Braemar, Britain’s largest National Nature Reserve, the project has saved the lodge from Scotland’s Buildings at Risk Register. The cottage is Moxon’s first completed building for Mar Lodge, as part of a wider programme of planned works for the Trust to secure the long-term future of the estate’s buildings through restoration... More
Project • By Camponovo Baumgartner Architekten • Private Houses
CIAHAD
The cabin CIAHAD is located in Arosa at 1’800 metres above sea level, with a great over the stunning landscape of the Grison Alps. The town is characterised by old mountain barns and by the contemporary witnes- ses of the early tourism movement.
Walter Mair
The cabin is shaped by it’s ancient history and is a place to linger. An anecdote tells that once hikers sat down in front of the house as if it was a mountain restaurant. The building owner’s mother brought them drinks and left them believing it was a restaurant. The hikers were not completely mistaken though, as the cabin’s name CIAHAD, pronounced in English, means: «Come In And Have A Drink» indeed.
Walter Mair
The former farmhouse was u... More