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Shirokane House – Tokyo Residence

April 11, 2019March 17, 2014 by Isabelle

Design: MDS Co.Ltd. The small site is located in a typical Tokyo urban residential area, where houses are closely built up. A pursuit of internal spaces in this house, as a result, changes the Tokyo cityscape a little.

An area for one floor is usually desired as large as possible, in particular, in such a narrow site. For this house, the first floor area is small due to the parking space and the second floor is, instead, larger. The outer appearance is examined based on ceiling height, slant line regulations for a building shape.

GIS Warsaw 2014, Expo Conference in Poland

March 3, 2020March 17, 2014 by Adrian Welch

International Interior Architecture, Design, Lighting & Furniture Expo Conference. GIS Architecture Expo Conference will take place in Warsaw and bring together over 350 architects, designers and lighting designers, alongside the laureates of the latest editions of international architecture and design competitions.

The Haining in Selkirk building renovation, Scottish Borders

July 8, 2025March 17, 2014 by Isabelle

Design: Lee Boyd Architects. The Haining is an A Listed Palladian House (c1795-1820) on the edge of Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. The Haining Charitable Trust with assistance from SHBT have embarked on a long-term project to revitalise the house, the grounds and out buildings

Athlone Art Gallery, Westmeath Building

February 10, 2020March 17, 2014 by Adrian Welch

Design: Keith Williams Architects. The Luan Gallery in Athlone, Co Westmeath has won a coveted Civic Trust Award in the 2014 awards programme. The building sits on a spectacular site overlooking the River Shannon.

Maggie’s Centre in Liverpool, Bebington

January 21, 2020March 16, 2014 by Isabelle

Design: Carmody Groarke. The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre has announced a new partnership with Maggie’s, the charity that provides support for people living with cancer, to create a Maggie’s Centre on its main hospital site in the Wirral, Merseyside. The first of the seven portable buildings which make up the interim centre has been delivered to the hospital.

Battle of Bannockburn Visitor Centre Stirling, Scotland

July 8, 2025March 16, 2014 by David

Design: Reiach and Hall, architects. The highly-anticipated new visitor centre – which is due to open on 1 March, ahead of the 700th anniversary of the battle on 23 and 24 June – uses cutting-edge technology to bring the battle to life for visitors, offering an experience which is unlike any other available in the UK. State-of-the-art installations are used to interpret and explain the events which led up to the battle, and its consequences.

The Floating House, Sustainable Design

February 3, 2021March 15, 2014 by David

The Floating house was designed for French developer H2ORIZON, that specialize in construction of floating structures, by Singapore-based architect Dymitr Malcew. The main goal of the project was to design a house that impacts surroundings in a most minimal way, but at the same time offers flexibility and out of the box living experience

Emporium Melbourne Shopping Centre

March 31, 2026March 15, 2014 by Adrian Welch

Emporium is a high-end, interconnected, urban, vertical retail environment of an extremely high standard. The retail development was required to link to the established, adjacent department stores of Myer and David Jones, as well as GPO Melbourne, The Strand Arcade and Melbourne Central.

Ecumenical Chapel: Meditation Space

September 10, 2020March 14, 2014 by David

Design: BNKR Arquitectura. Some customers visited La Estaancia Chapel and contacted us to make a private chapel on their weekend`s house at Cuernavaca. They wanted an Ecumenical Chapel, a non-religious chapel, a chapel to meditate. They also liked La Estancia Chapel, but they wanted something more discreet.

8th Ave in Montréal residential property

January 20, 2025March 14, 2014 by Isabelle

This intervention transformed a residential two storey duplex in Rosemount into a single dwelling unit by completely reorganizing the interior and constructing a 430 sqft extension in the rear.

Pop-Up House in France, Property

March 3, 2020March 14, 2014 by Isabelle

Design: Multipod – four days and a wireless screwdriver are all you need to build your very own Pop-Up House. The structure, compiled of insulating blocks and wooden panels, delivers affordable thermal insulation like you’d never believe.

Esplanade Residence Montreal, Quebec home

March 8, 2025March 14, 2014 by Isabelle

Design: Emilie Bédard and Maria Rosa Di Ioia

The client had just bought this un-renovated 1910’s triplex and wanted to make the top floor his own. Inspired by his Scandinavian origins and the apartment’s characteristic Montreal construction, the architect and designer shaped the renovation using raw materials such as wood and steel, peeling away at the building’s envelope.

Contemporary Extension for Haarlem House: Renovation

April 28, 2020March 14, 2014 by Isabelle

Van Ommeren-Architects made the plans and supervised the renovation of a 1930’s house in Haarlem, Holland.
The design is completed with the placement of a contemporary extension. On the contours of the old extension a lightweight construction realized a healthier relationship with the garden.

NTI Head Office Leiden, Holland Interior

October 23, 2021March 14, 2014 by Isabelle

Liong Lie Architects designed the new interior of the NTI head office in Leiden, Holland. NTI stands for more than 70 years of cutting-edge distance education. The new learning according to NTI is the ideal combination of online learning and classroom meetings.