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Design: Tetsuo Kondo Architects
Delightful swept route through the trees in Estonia: “In the elegant woods of Kadriorg, we added a path. A path which relies on the forest as it flutters through the woods with over 300 years of age.”
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. The Røldal family vacation home is recognisable for its compact, defined and geometric shape. The objective of preserving as much of the surrounding landscape possible as a high priority resulted in the design of two volumes.
More photos – a group of students from architecture, design and art universities spent 10 days in a summer workshop. They built 3 floating structures: a shelter, a fireplace and a sauna as a response to the changing environment of the area.
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This building is anchored in an innovative interpretation of nature’s fantastic dimensions and the dramatic experience of mountaineering. The design of the building is based on its function as a mountaineering center and gathering place for both locals and visitors.
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This Norwegian holiday home has a clean-cut expression. The main wing houses mainly bedrooms and divides into two branches. The shift in program and different levels lets the building adapt to the slope.
This tiny house is made up of three main spaces: blue for sleeping, psychologically most suitable for a good night´s sleep ; white for the day zone ; red for the wood-burning stove and kitchenette.
Design: Saunders Architecture
The Squish Studio is located just outside the small town of Tilting on the eastern end of Fogo Island. Tilting is known for its strong Irish culture and its recent designation by Parks Canada as a National Cultural Landscape District of Canada.
Design: Dualchas Architects. The site is located in Northwest Skye, overlooking Loch Dunvegan. It manifests itself as a contradiction: far reaching views to the Northeast and harsh winds from the Southwest. The constant is the horizon.
Design: Werner Tscholl
This bold concrete structure juts out like an erratic boulder, 2474 m above sea level. The “Ice Cave” inside the museum pays tribute to the pioneers of the High Alpine Road.
Poised on the ridges and rolling fields where the Beartooth Mountains touch Montana’s big sky, this new building will open to the public on June 17, offering a “uniquely resonant experience of great classical music, nestled among sculptures and buildings that hug the land like natural formations.”
Design: TYIN Tegnestue. Plans and prototypes made of Kebony of latest design by these architects – on a beautiful breakwater on Norway’s northern coastline – exhibited at the Venice Biennale.
This bespoke house in the Cairngorm National Park designed by architects Brown + Brown sits on a beautiful south-facing site. A stacked stone wall extends out from the building into the landscape
Design: Arouca municipality and engineer company Trimetrica. Embracing the Paiva river this is a new walking path with breathtaking natural beauty, picturesque landscapes, waterfalls and a variety of fauna and flora species.
Design: BTE Architecture. Located on a peninsula overlooking the UK’s largest stretch of inland water, Loch Lomond: the viewpoint takes the shape of a triangular platform and is positioned at the end of a long curved path stretching form the car park to the highest point of the peninsula.
‘The Kettle’ cafe-kiosk in Dunollie Museum, Castle and Grounds is the most structurally ambitious live-build project delivered during Tog Studio, an intensive ten-day summer school led by architecture and engineering graduates.
Design: Daniele Verducci of ODA – Workshop Design and Architecture. The design of the shelter, is based on a concept of space minimum without leaving the comfort. The cell ecological proposal is thus revealed a mix of simplicity and high technology, reversibility and durability, easy detectability and feasibility.
Design: Moxon Architects. Set in the rolling landscape of Lower Deeside, Strachan House is a contemporary family home set into a steep landscape, made up of a series of connected volumes that utilise the banked terrain.
Design: Partisans
Perched at the edge of a stunning rock island, in the harsh conditions of Northern Ontario, Canada, the sauna pushes architecture to the limits of imagination and buildability.
