Portugal: Europe’s underrated architecture haven
Portugal: Europe’s underrated architecture haven. It’s a popular holiday destination, a favourite with ex-pats and its capital city is one of the continent’s most up and coming.
Cichy House in Czerwionka-Leszczyny, Poland
Cichy House in Czerwionka-Leszczyny, southern Poland: contemporary Home in Silesia design by Toprojekt, a long plot lies about 100 m from the motorway making the site vulnerable to noise from the highway.
180 Steps in Rotterdam, Central Station Stairs
A look back at The Stairs in Rotterdam by MVRDV, Architects. The scaffolding structure, assembled by Dutch Steigers, took visitors 29 metres up to the roof top of the Groot Handelsgebouw. The structure commemorated 75 years of the Dutch city’s reconstruction.
LAC Colonia Caroya Headquarters Cordoba
Designed by MARQ Architecture + ONO Architects the LAC Headquarters project arises from the refunctioning and expansion need, dedicated to the transportation of fuels.
Freeport Low Energy Passive House
Redesigned by a.m.Benzing architects pllc the Long Island City home was converted into the Low Energy Passive House standard. It allowed inhabitants to reduce energy used in the building by about 70% to a comparable building in the neighborhood.
Men’s Lair in Prague, Czech Republic Apartment
Designed by boq architekti the brief for Men´s Lair was to create an occasionally living for a young man who, thanks to his job, has a very irregular regime and travels a lot.
Hull Living with Water Competition Winners
Hull Living with Water Competition winners news: Newcastle-based architecture practice Harper Perry Architects wins RIBA Competition to design a new waterfront housing development on behalf of Hull City Council, England, UK.
Villa Amiri, Mölndal, Gothenburg
Designed by Bornstein Lyckefors Architects Villa Amiri is located in a residential area just outside Mölndal city center. The brief was to make the house a simple saddle roof geometry with facades and roof in one material.
Fire Resistant Tyvek Membrane
More than Fabric First, Safety First: Multi-unit residential project by United Living in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, benefits from DuPont Tyvek FireCurb Housewrap
Low Line Design Competition London: RIBA
Low Line Design Competition: London’s emerging world-class walkway and destination traces the path of the Victorian railway viaducts through Bankside, London Bridge and Bermondsey: RIBA international design competition.
Fundamental House in Annangrove, Sydney
The Fundamental House project by Sandbox Studio is a compact ‘forever house’ designed for a couple of retirees. Its environmental design and space-efficient planning make good use of the site, allowing them to live near their children.
Jönköping Bathhouse, Swedish Kallbadhus
Scandinavian architecture practice White Arkitekter has won an architectural competition for Jönköping Bathhouse; an all-season bathhouse building on the shores of Lake Vättern, in the city of Jönköping in southern Sweden.
Harvard-Belmont Residence Renovation
Seattle mansion refurbishment project by Stuart Silk Architects, a house known as the Harvard-Belmont Residence. The concrete residence was originally built in 1910 for noted Seattle entrepreneur, Samuel R. Hill.
ASMA Dubai Mall, Middle Eastern Restaurant, UAE
When entering the restaurants, diners go through a foyer that gives ASMA a “sidewalk café” style effect where people can sit by the shop front and have conversations as other shoppers stroll by. ASMA Dubai Mall, Middle Eastern Restaurant in UAE by H2R Design Architects.