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Project • By Sandro Gravili • Private Houses

Cube House System for Nomura Koumuten

Cube House System is a compact modular housing proposal developed for the competition promoted by Nomura Koumuten in Japan. The project explores a simple and flexible residential model, designed around the idea of a small but generous home for contemporary living. Sandro Gravili The house is organized as a clear timber frame volume, using a construction system connected to Nomura Koumuten’s wooden building technology. Its compact footprint is balanced by a double-height living room, which becomes the central space of the house and brings natural light deep into the interior. Sandro Gravili The internal layout is based on traditional Japanese tatami proportions, used as a modular reference for the organization of the rooms.... More

Project • By archoffice | architecture & construction office • Offices

Sarafraz Office Complex

The Sarafraz building in Beheshti neighborhood of Tehran, located on Sarafraz street, is designed on five floors, with two office units on each floor, around a large central void in such a way that, in addition to simultaneous light from the south and north sides of the building, have the possibility of providing more light absorption level through this void.Office units were designed in two different forms for offices with diverse spaces and functions. Caption Caption The general material of the facade of the building and the lobby and entrance space is made of gray basalt stone, which is worked at certain distances from each other with vertical finishes on the stone. In the facade of the building, rectangular cubic volumes of d... More

Project • By Luigi Rosselli Architects • Apartments

Upper Deck

Growing tired of the commute to city offices from their home in a leafy northern suburb, once their youngest child left home our clients decided to relocate to an apartment in walking distance from not only their work, but also a city playground of theatres, restaurants, and their circle of friends. Prue Ruscoe In leaving their large garden, tennis court, swimming pool, reserved neighbours, and attractive but staid suburb behind, they opted instead for a harbourfront penthouse apartment, and found a likeminded group of sophisticated urban dwellers. Friendly and welcoming neighbours were an added bonus to what is the main attraction of this penthouse, its generous size and equally large outdoor terrace, which takes full advantage of sp... More

News • News • 24 Jan 2023

Piuarch collaborates with Fendi Maison to create an open spatial dialogue with the Tuscan Landscape

Nestled in the Tuscan countryside, the new Fendi Factory in Bagno a Ripoli is a masterpiece of Milan-based architecture firm Piuarch and the luxury label. The hills and greenery of Tuscany provide a picturesque setting for the building, which maintains a low profile and humble appearance in the rich countryside. Andrea Ferrari The project was conceived as an architectural landmark that integrates the excellence of the brand's ecological and aesthetic value. The result is a complex of about 14,000 square metres, designed around high-quality landscaping and cutting-edge energy efficiency. Andrea Ferrari The building creates a free form that is inspired by the requirements of the production process, extending horizontally o... More

News • News • 22 Jun 2022

Award-winning New Museum of Ethnography by NAPUR Architect opens in Budapest

Designed by NAPUR Architect, the recently opened New Museum of Ethnography in Budapest is a purpose-built museum that facilitates the large-scale, modern, user-friendly operation of the institution along with the visually enticing and diverse display of mankind’s material and spiritual heritage, both Hungarian and International. Palkó György With a collection comprising 250 thousand items from the Carpathian Basin and from every part of the world, the collection never operated in a building designed specifically for its need – until now.   Palkó György The result of an international competition, NAPUR Architect edged out names such as Zaha Hadid and BIG with a design that is simple yet in... More

Project • By Newick Architects • Community Centres

'r kids Family Center

‘r kids is an agency that works with foster children to re-unite them with their biological families. Newick Architects Newick Architects This is an addition to an existing one story masonry building. Because of its tight urban site our second-floor cantilevers over the parking creating a roof garden where a typical construction volume would have been. The third floor is the storage loft that we could not technically build as a basement. The principal street façade is constructed of 81 aluminum tubes with sloped wood panels and the windows in between. The building interacts with the environment in complex ways. Tim Nighswander Newick Architects More

News • News • 3 Oct 2021

Mont-Ras Winery by Victor Rahola Arquitecte embedded as a platform inside the earth

The Mont-Ras Winery in Mont-Ras, Spain was conceived by Victor Rahola Arquitecte as a platform inside the earth. The soil humidity improves the conservation of the wine while the subterranean nature maintains an ideal temperature. José Hevia A roof garden lies on top of concrete vaults, optimized through extensive calculations as hyperbolic arches. Walls are designed with a geometry that best responds to the compressing power of the earth. José Hevia The soil humidity improves the conservation of the wine while the subterranean nature maintains an ideal temperature. Within the building, there are four main spaces for wine production with three more areas for services and storage between them.  José... More

News • News • 27 Aug 2021

Waterflow generates the compelling vaulted form of Tokyo’s Tsuroaka House

Tsuruoka House by Kiyoaki Takeda Architects is a concept that attempts to sustain not only people but also nature. Sites are usually divided into ‘gardens’ and ‘houses,’ resulting in a relationship of nature and architecture being next to each other. Here the idea of stacking ‘garden’ and house’ is explored through a cross-sectional plan.  Masaki hamada (kkpo) This approach taken here goes against modern rooftop greening, which pursues thinner soil. Instead, the thickness of the soil was plotted to be as deep as possible to support a small forest hosting a diverse mixture of groundcover, shrubs, and small trees.  Masaki hamada (kkpo) Essential to supporting the substantial roof... More

Project • By Fender Katsalidis • Apartments

Paragon

Australia’s first elevated indoor forest completes at Fender Katsalidis-designed tower A Fender Katsalidis-designed $200 million residential tower in Melbourne’s CBD, Paragon, has completed featuring Australia's first elevated indoor forest in a high-rise. The 48-level tower by developer Beulah features a three-level ‘urban forest’ containing a selection of mature trees, leafy canopies, climbing gardens and grassy spaces, complete with refined terrazzo pavers and outdoor seating zones. Paragon’s design also meets post-pandemic living needs through its low density, with a maximum of six residences per level, access to nature within the building and two levels of amenity. Paragon encompasses a heritage fa&ccedi... More

News • News • 6 Jun 2021

Biotope by Henning Larsen provides innovative new infrastructure for health and wellness in Lille

Designed after a conceptual vision of a ripple of glass, light and vegetation, The French Biotope Project by Henning Larsen promotes wellness through green space. The 30,000 m2 workspace in Lille features a sustainable structure that maximizes access to fresh air, daylight and green space. Plentiful rooftop gardens with natural light dissolve boundaries between buildings and nature while inside, a broad skylight floods a spectacular atrium.  Javier Callejas Sevilla The roof garden and green wall façade include 14 street tree species, 20 shrubs species, a variety of 30 perennials and even some edibles. Micro wet-zones, nesting boxes, local deadwood and brown roof with organic material further provide habitat for nature in t... More

Project • By STGK Inc. • Shops

JR Yokohama Tower

Finding your place at Yokohama stationJR Yokohama Tower is part of a reconstruction project and the landmark structure for the west exit area of Yokohama Station. It is also a lead project of "Excite Yokohama 22", the development project for the Yokohama Station area sanctioned by the city of Yokohama. With a total floor area of approximately 100,000 square meters, and a height of approximately 132 meters, it was designed as a complex facility consisting of commercial facilities, offices, and a movie theater. In 2014, we were selected through a nomination competition and were in charge of the environmental design of the exterior corridors, atrium, and rooftop garden. Yokohama Station is an "accessible" place for many people, for it is a hu... More

News • News • 10 Mar 2021

DS+R and BLP complete the highly anticipated Susan Wakil Health Building at the University of Sydney

At the University of Sydney, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS + R) and Billard Leece Partnership (BLP) have partnered to complete a new state-of-the-art educational facility that consolidates clinical, teaching and research functions while respecting the site’s historic significance as a gathering place for the Gadigal people.   Brett Boardman A total of 21,500 square meters, the building is strategically positioned near the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Charles Perkins Centre and brings together the University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, the Central Clinical School of the Sydney Medical School, and the Sydney School of Health Sciences. The project also accommodates a library and other components of the Facu... More

Product • By Unity Surfacing Systems • Pave-Land Series

Pave-Land Series

Our 1.75” and 2” thick Pave-Land Series is designed to meet and exceed all of your project needs for use on infant/ toddler playground areas (yielding a 4ft and 5ft fall rating), rooftops, recreational areas, fitness facilities and more. It is the foundation for a smart, long-term investment in durability and beauty that will last for years to come.As the industry leader, the superior raw materials we provide, coupled with our proprietary manufacturing process, unique design and large size product gives you the strongest, highest quality, environmentally friendly rubber tile system above all overs.All of our products are independently laboratory tested with respect to ASTM, CPSC, AD, FM safety standards and guidelines to be inst... More

Project • By Antireality • Private Houses

Blue House

IDEA   The BLUE HOUSE Project is a conceptual design of a summer house located on the rocky Cliff. The name of the building pertains not only to the colour of the facade alone but also to a pool that is integrated with the body of the building. Owing to its location, the water reservoir influences the space of the entire house and changes its nature depending on the recipient’s location. For the observer beyond the building, the pool is interpreted as a water façade of the building; the user inside the house perceives the pool as a ‘transparent’ room serving as a panoramic window (that allows one to observe both people swimming in the pool and the landscape filtered by the water surface), from the perspective... More

Project • By studio203 architects • Private Houses

Lilyfield House

WANGAL COUNTRY. Lilyfield House is an inner city home, conceived as a spatial assembly of internal and external rooms and volumes, opening to the light, to green spaces and rising to the district outlook. The rooms and platforms of the house pivot around a central atrium, integrating portions of a historic shop. Accessible from only two sides and subject to acoustic constraints under a flight path, these 3-storey alterations and additions cater for family living and working from home. A reduced materials palette of off-form concrete, black steel, plywood and bamboo flooring and historic fabric in white-set plaster, provides a generosity of space and light for a family of five. Lilyfield House is effcient in its use of an inner city site.... More