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News • News • 10 Apr 2024
Knox Bhavan reimagines challenging London brownfield site as contemporary low-carbon home
London-based architectural practice Knox Bhavan designed Threefold House, a new residential property in Teddington, south-west London. The low-carbon house is constructed on a brownfield site in a built-up area that was previously occupied by a disused warehouse. The contemporary home includes three courtyards and sits on a challenging 450-square-meter (4,844-square-feet) triangular plot, surrounded by other properties and a small car park.
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The name Threefold House is a reference to the building’s “origami-inspired assemblage of geometrical planes,” explains Knox Bhavan. The site is bounded by a new 2.5-meter-high (8-feet-high) perimeter wall that recalls the former warehouse wall.... More
News • News • 16 Nov 2022
PLAT Asia rethinks the traditional sloping roof in a contemporary form in the Weihe River Pavilion
PLAT ASIA, a Beijing-based design studio, developed a two-storey pavilion abutting the banks of the Weihe River in Shaanxi, China, that invites people to relax and relish the surrounding panoramas.
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The river, the agricultural landscape, the highway, and the skyline stretched from north to south through the view frame and grilles form the basis of the design concept.
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The structure emerges as a traditional sloping roof, interposed by understated geometrical openings, providing uninterrupted views of the horizon and blurring the lines between the outside and inside. The triangular form reveals primitiveness, reflected in a contemporary design expression.
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News • News • 17 Aug 2022
Monologue Art Museum by Wutopia Lab offers an oasis free from worldly distractions
In Qinhuangdao, China, the Monologue Art Museum by Wutopia Lab opened on the park green of SEATOPIA in July 2022. The Museum is dedicated to those who, as the architects say, want to 'be free from worldly distractions.'
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The design comprises three no. buildings of 1,300 m2 each. Arranged into different monoliths and combined with walls, corridors, and ambiguous space, the triangular-shaped Monologue Art Museum emerges.
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The spatial sequence of the Museum slowly and poetically reveals itself to visitors. The journey begins at the small entrance theatre, where light breaks through the corners. Upon entering the art gallery, the quiet water courtyard slowly appears along an open c... More