New build

This single-family house is located in the Region of Murcia, in a residential area of semidetached, modern and eminently white houses. From a distance, its clear and avant-garde appearance seeks to integrate the house with the rest of the surrounding dwellings. A travertine-effect porcelain tiles offer this clear and luminous vision, but in its proximity, it confers the texture, warmth and naturalness typical of stone materials. When the commission was received, the structure of the house was already in built and the volumetric conception was half defined; however, the previous project did not fully convince its future owners. Manuel Garcia's design is based on respect for this initial idea and focuses on its materiality. The aim is to pres... More

Interior design of newly built apartment. For an apartment in the new building project Louise Marie, VIVA came up with a total interior design concept. The apartment is located on the tenth floor of the complex, with a breathtaking view of Antwerp's Singel. The client moved from a spacious town house to a two-bedroom apartment. In the apartment, all living spaces are intertwined. The living area, dining area and kitchen together form one, open space; in a rather small area. The coming together of all these functions in one space, can create crowding and turmoil. Lucid Tranquility and unity are the foundations of the design. How can we create a multifunctional space with the functions of living, eating and cooking; without getting i... More

New build house and interior design with innovative, sustainable materials  Polysmiths built a 3-bedroom house on an infill brownfield site in Forest Gate, Newham London, using cork and other sustainable materials available during the pandemic.The project could not be more relevant to our times, as it tackles multiple challenges including how to intensify unused infill plots for new homes, how to build adaptably when facing the fast-changing socioeconomic landscapes during the Coronavirus pandemic, and how architects can lead the discussions of more sustainable construction through rigorous research and risk taking.Polysmiths was appointed to work as architect and interior designers, for the new house architecture superstructure and i... More

Envisaged as a modern interpretation of the mass house building aesthetic, set amongst an eclectic street scene in the suburbs of SW London, WR house showcases what is possible on a limited budget and within tight legislative planning constraints. Ben Tynegate Meeting all national space standard requirements, WR house is constituted from one type of contemporary brickwork, formulated in a range of bonding and coursing techniques. Ben Tynegate The fenestration has been lined with a copper shroud to add subtlety to the detailing whilst also offering the property an element of originality that echoes the ornate detailing last seen around residential fenestration openings in the Victorian period. Ben Tynegate The private ameni... More

Casa VF was born on a hill surrounded by olive trees and vineyards near the city of Scicli, in the countryside of the Val di Noto: a landscape characterized by the fluid sinuosity of the hills that slope down to the sea. The house opens the view on the Mediterranean Sea and develops as a stratification of two volumes, a rectangular one which forms the ground floor and the other characterized by a triangular stratum which instead hosts the first floor. The arrangement of the volumes responds to the distribution of the housing program: the lower layer houses the living area, the kitchen, the living room and the bedrooms; the upper one, on the other hand, represents a more intimate area, an outbuilding with bedroom and bathroom and a large ter... More

A small, oddly-shaped, steep down-sloping vacant lot (only 1350 square feet) in the Cole Valley neighborhood of San Francisco created considerable design challenges for a new home. The reward for transcending these obstacles were expansive views to the North, West, and to the Pacific Ocean beyond. The responding vision was for a “mini-residential tower”. Comprised of five floors and a rooftop deck, organized in a reverse-floor plan that situates the living spaces on the upper levels. Each level (including the garage) of the north and west facades is skinned in floor-to-ceiling glass. A floating open-riser stair with a continuous translucent patterned glass wall connects all the floors and organizes the house both visually and sp... More

Vinrosen is a contemporary family home designed around a central courtyard. The architecture heavily leverages the ground floor plane by dissolving the edges between the interior and exterior spaces. The architecture develops SLa’s ongoing ideas of screening, which in this instance takes the form of an operable facade throughout the first floor. A critical integration of architecture and landscape lies at the heart of this home. More

The monumental metal sheet factory (Zware Plaatwerkerij) on the former shipyard in the heart of Vlissingen, and the adjacent site, have been transformed into a residential care centre. The residential centre has 55 apartments for somatic care, 6 group accommodation units for psychogeriatric residents and 54 care and/or assisted-living apartments. In addition, the ground floor accommodates a restaurant, a training and education room, studios, a hairdresser, a shop, a physiotherapy room, a theatre auditorium and a parking garage. Ronald Tilleman Breaking open the existing building The closed facade of the historical building has been broken open and equipped in part with glass. The large, heavy doors have been opened and a transpa... More

Shearwaters is a replacement dwelling in the Pembrokeshire Town of Tenby. It is located on the southern side of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. The site is located at a cliff top boasting panoramic views from Tenby to the west and the Bristol channel to the south.The brief was to create a contemporary 5-bedroom dwelling that was unique but complementing of the typical pitched roof vernacular of the area. The design developed out of a series of detailed studies into the local roof forms, pitches and relationships between geometries.The plan spreads east and west to the boundaries of the long and narrow site to maximise the size of the front and rear gardens. A ground floor form containing the dining and living spaces reaches out to th... More

St Bartholomew’s, a £40m new build secondary school with a capacity for 1650 pupils, was originally completed in 2010 with Jonathan Gratton as the lead designer and project architect. Given the success of the original design the school re-approached Jonathan with a brief to extend the school with an additional exam space. With St Bartholomew’s agreement, ArchitectureLIVE further developed the project brief to encompass a new multi-purpose space to provide a dedicated foyer for school and community events, a new study area for the 6th Form and extended changing facilities as well as the increased exam capacity. Whilst the overriding factor for the design was to make the new extension fit in seamlessly with the existing building, the... More

Situated in the Rowdah District of Jeddah Saudi Arabia, this 6 storey apartment building consists of eight, two bedroom luxury apartments, 4 smaller two bedroom apartments and two luxury penthouses with 3 bedrooms. The total building accommodates 14 apartments. To meet the cultural needs of the future tenants, each apartment has folding screens which allow for living spaces to be divided for private socialising, multiple bathrooms and maids rooms. Large format windows project from the façade to create window boxes on the outside and seating areas on the inside. http://carbon-creative.com/residential/rowdah-apartments/ More