Adrian Welch
Design: b.e architecture. Renovation and extension to a period home: contrasting the solidity of the existing sandstone house, the new addition is a gentle intervention that emerges quietly from the canopy of a beautiful, mature lemon-scented gum tree.
Site-specific light installation by architectural office, spatial practice: the permanent fiber optic lighting installation flanks both sides of Kasuga Bridge creating the perception of indigo ink spilling into Shinmachi River.
Design: Batay-Csorba Architects. Addition and full interior renovation of an existing four-storey duplex: conversion into one 4,000 sqft family home. Located on a tree-lined street in the Yorkville neighborhood, a vibrant and historical cultural district.
Design: PEÑA architecture. Former Kralings Museum at the Hoflaan transformed into a luxury apartment building: the building has three apartments. This one is on the second floor and contains 193 sqm with 25 sqm of outdoor space.
Design: DADA Partners. Set on verdant land dotted with large mature trees, this house is nestled – much like a fork – between three large trees. The building is conceived as an assembly of two fairly rectangular blocks, connected by a narrow, transparent, staircase block.
Design: Benjamin Garcia Saxe, architects – Caribbean coast architecture uses simple ideas for using rain water, temperature control through cross ventilation, and large overhangs; an aesthetic based on traditional tropical architecture of the Caribbean
Design: Peter Ruge Architekten
Cost-efficient building in the countryside, a detached dacha for a German-Russian family of musicians. Surrounded by lakes and forests on a 6,500 sqm site this is a one-storey wooden cabin with a spacious living, dining and kitchen area.
The new landscape in front of The National Gallery of Denmark is designed as a melting pot – where art can mix with urban life. The urban space is created by Danish POLYFORM Architects and Dutch landscape architects Karres en Brands.
Design: Wilson Architects + Donovan Hill Architects
Conceived as a series of interconnected places to enable a community of research. From the intimate to the expansive, the building enables intensity of scientific research and a range of opportunities for collaboration.
Design: gmp, architects. Building combines restrained gesture with succinct appearance: the building for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ballet company was constructed on the historic site of the former Rheinbahn depot ‘am Steinberg’.
Design: Ian Shaw Architekten
Cast in-situ concrete house, dramatically sited on a hillside above Schriesheim, in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany. From its elevated position the elemental two-tier building offers panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.
Design: OB Architecture. Renovation of a 1930s house in Winchester by Winchester architects: adding a dramatic glazed living, kitchen and dining space. Together with its extensive rear garden it has been transformed into a modern family home.
Design: Hiramoto Design Studio, Architects. Located on the second floor of glass curtain wall building, facing main street of a fashionable neighborhood. As they have a great view from this tenant’s window, “building a connection with the neighborhood” spontaneously becomes the architects’ design challenge.
The top priority for the architects when designing was to keep the spirit of the existing house, which was more than 20 years old and was designed in an exaggerated way. The project has an air of minimalism combined with classic elements of a rustic beach house.