Tag Housing

15-07-2020

Tato Architects: Functional cave: spiral house in Takatsuki

A surprising solution has been designed by Kobe-based firm Tato Architects for a new single-family home in Takatsuki, a city in the Osaka Prefecture. Two spiral paths that meet at various points offer an interesting range of variable routes through the house.

08-07-2020

Francesco Pierazzi: Maisonette in Notting Hill, London

Francesco Pierazzi renovates a single-family home in a block of terrace houses built in London’s Notting Hill district 40 years ago, using a palette of colours and textures to amplify the perception of space in the maisonette interior.

01-07-2020

TA-CHA Design: Binary Wood House, Pak Chong, Thailand

Next to Khao Yai national park, a very popular tourist attraction near Bangkok, is a project inspired by the idea of minimal impact on the environment. TA-CHA Design’s Binary Wood House is a passive building inspired by the Korat House and based on an alternation of solids and hollows.

18-06-2020

Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop creates the Hayama House, Terrace in the town

For the Hayama House project, Japanese architecture firm Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop envisaged a “middle” space shared with the city. The space consists of a Doma and a terrace where different activities can be carried out alone or in the company of others. A space where it is possible for people to recover their social interaction and urban behaviour.

05-06-2020

Concrete, timber and aluminium towers by Helen & Hard Architects

Helen & Hard architects’ three concrete, timber and aluminium towers on the top of a hill overlook a Norwegian fjord

22-05-2020

Mecanoo’s glass and steel house on stilts

A steel house built on stilts appears to float on a lake near Lechlade-on-Thames

13-05-2020

Bovenbouw: Renovation of a home on Lovelingstraat, Antwerp

In this house on Lovelingstraat, Bovenbouw Architectuur has reinterpreted Antwerp’s 19th-century rooms with modern twists, creating timeless spaces. The strategy used to bring light into the interiors and the intermingling of old and modern styles are the focal points of this Belgian firm’s original design.

13-04-2020

RED Arquitectos is behind Traspatio, a refurbishment in Puebla

Susana López and her team from RED Arquitectos completed the Traspatio project in Puebla, Mexico. A community project that rehabilitates a 19th-century building with a clever combination of historical and contemporary elements for an eye-catching, socially significant operation that injects new life into the neighbourhood.