Design: KWK Promes, architects. The building design attempts to redefine the single-family house to integrate architecture with nature. The classic household division into the living area, located in the ground floor and the sleeping area above is transformed into new typology.
Design: Hufft Projects. Steel-clad private residence that sits on eight acres of heavily wooded terrain. As an owner of a steel manufacturing facility, the homeowner wanted a residence to reflect his distinctive family business and his personal artistic background.
Design: Pedra Silva Architects. High-level state-of-the-art dental clinic building on one of Sydney’s high-end retail streets. The aesthetic employed by the architects is a clear response to problem solving.
Design: STGM Architects
A building in the Beauport borough of Quebec City, adjacent to the Estimauville eco-neighbourhood. It is a 1,000 sqm two-storey structure that puts the focus on eco-friendly, architectural innovation.
Design: Flanagan Lawrence, architects. A Grade II listed building dating from 1923. Designed by Frank Verity and originally constructed as a 3000 seat cinema, the building was awarded the RIBA Award London Street Architecture Award for the best London facade.
Architects: Miguel Marcelino. The school building setting allows a close relationship with nature, located in the countryside, the new primary school + kindergarten is surrounded by beautiful adult trees.
Design: A2OFFICE, architects. This architecture project is a rehabilitation of a 19th Century building with an unusual triangle-shaped planimetry. Despite an area of only 52sqm four lofts have been formed.
Design: Patel Taylor, architects. Sensitive but contemporary twist on the traditional English almshouse: a radical shake up of an established design typology, providing a series of spacious single-storey dwellings for elderly residents.
Design: Durbach Block Jaggers, architects. Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation interiors, this design celebrates the intimacy and immediacy of the everyday. Functions overlap in this tiny renovated space.
Design: John McAslan + Partners, architects. Remodelling of Grade II listed building at Maze Hill to provide a new 7,600 sqm school and community building at Westcombe Park. The 1,400-pupil secondary school is split across two sites adjacent to Greenwich Park.
Design: ROBERT KERR architecture design. This Californian beach house responds to extraordinary site conditions as a progressive revealing of a sculpted interior. Cantilevering on 3 sides, the top level is sculpted to express openings and exaggerate its weight.
Design: Doone Silver Architects
A four-storey apartment building, replaces a two-storey electrical substation: the building adjoins a listed former public house and responds sensitively to the constraints of a conservation area.
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Ben Jacks’ book The Architect’s Tour: Notes for the Design Traveler, by Culicidae Architectural Press: this publication records a lovely project, a wander through some of the most important European buildings of the last century.