Blairgowrie Beach House Mornington Peninsula

Blairgowrie Beach House

Design: DX Architects. The Blairgowrie Beach House on the Mornington Peninsula retained and altered the rear proportion of the existing building and expanded the dwelling forward on a steeply sloped site to accommodate additional living and sleeping areas.

Villas CH-O ans CH-S, Todi Property, Italy

Villas CH-O and CH-S

Architects: LAD. Container Home Italia, the client, is a start-up founded in 2014 that works to incorporate 40’ HC and 20′ HC containers into residential buildings.

TellApart Inc HQ in Burlingame

TellApart Inc HQ

Design: Diebel and Company, Architects. TellApart help companies turn individual customer preferences into sales by predicting the items each customer will find most delightful and curating experiences that help them discover those products.

Chalet Whymper Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Chalet Whymper

There were many constraints with this project, but the Chevallier Architectes team studied the file and proposed solutions that would make it possible to successfully complete the construction, including optimization of the space.

Twisting Courtyard in Beijing building

Twisting Courtyard

Design: ARCHSTUDIO. The purpose of the improvement is to upgrade the necessary infrastructure needed for modern life, thus turning this traditional courtyard, which mainly serve as a residence, into an attractive public space of Beijing Inner City.

Hudson Block Bank and Cafe in Calgary

Hudson Block Bank and Cafe in Calgary

Design: Lemay + Toker
The bank’s public-facing areas are defined by custom glass display cabinets, with specialized lighting, for a rotating gallery of quarterly contributions from the Alberta College of Art and Design.

St Joseph Housing in Abbottsford, Victoria

St Joseph Housing

Architects: KUD. The St. Joseph project is a luxury residential development situated in Abbottsford, Victoria. Due to its historical significance the site has become part of the cultural landscape within the area, demanding a highly responsive and respectful design outcome.

HEC Student Housing Jouy-en-Josas

HEC Student Housing

Design: Martin Duplantier Architectes. The 138-hectare park features prestigious sports facilities, a vast forest area and a plateau inhabited by buildings from 1962 and designed by the architect René Coulon.

Lane 189 Mall in Shanghai Retail

Lane 189

Architects: UNStudio. An intriguing organic-shaped building with varying scales of hexagonal grid facade patterning. The Dutch architects have developed a consistent hexagon module, but vary it with sub-modules to create a fascinating effect.

Homes that push the architectural boundaries

Homes that Push the Architectural Boundaries

The following projects explore these boundaries in some thought-provoking and controversial ways. Some might argue they’re unsafe or take unnecessary risks. But the very nature of architecture is that it challenges us to see the world differently.

Breeze House in Castellón Property

Breeze House

Design: Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. After a life in the center of Europe, a couple returns to the Mediterranean. Among their mere desires is the power to enjoy a place where they spent the summer during their childhood.

Ten Broeck Cottage Livingston

Ten Broeck Cottage

Architects: Messana O’Rorke. Much-neglected 18th Century homestead in a Columbia County apple orchard, New York, fabricated in huge hand-hewn timbers. The basic frame and form was typical of houses by Dutch settlers.

GSA Student Accommodation Spain

GSA Student Accommodation

Design: Javier Aguilar Viyuela. GSA, the global student accommodation leader, announces that it has acquired a Spanish student accommodation portfolio, operating business and brand

Victoria & Albert Museum Shop, London

Victoria & Albert Museum Shop

Architecture practice Friend & Company has led the new design of the store. With their signature total architecture approach the new shop embraces craftsmanship, and is set to be an inspirational space for the 21st century museum-goer. The first V&A shop, from 1863, was a showcase for new crafts too.