Tag Bricks

11-11-2022

Peris+Toral Arquitectes, beautiful and affordable housing

The Peris+Toral Arquitectes studio has created a five-storey building with 54 social housing units in Barcelona, in the Bon Pastor district. An architecture that offers housing that is not only affordable, but also beautiful and sustainable. In fact, the project was shortlisted for the FAD Award for Architecture 2022 and received a special mention in the HISPALYT Architecture Awards 2022.

21-10-2022

The Athletes House by AR Design: a balance of the contemporary and the traditional

Multi-award-winning architecture firm AR Design, based in Winchester, last year completed a project in Hampshire dubbed ‘The Athletes House’. The brief was to extend a private 1950s home in a way that deftly combined the clients’ passion - triathlon - with a desire to blend the contemporary with the traditional.

12-10-2022

CCD creates the interior design of the Mumian Chengdu Dong'an Lake Hotel

For the Mumian Chengdu Dong'an Lake Hotel, designers from the Chinese CCD studio were inspired by the local context, by architectural languages and by the rich culture of Sichuan and Longquanyi as design elements. They incorporated the lifestyle of ancient Chinese courier stations into the hotel, taking guests on a journey through history.

21-07-2022

Mu Spring Resort, a project by IDMatrix

Chinese interior design studio IDMatrix designed Mu Spring Resort, an idyllical place far removed from the big city offering a gateway to tranquil country life. This artistic resort in modern oriental style situated in Chengdu’s Agricultural Expo Park draws on a rich cultural heritage.

22-06-2022

A villa in Baja California Sur, Casa Calafia by RED Arquitectos

With Casa Calafia, the Mexican studio RED Arquitectos led by architect Susana Lopez, has created a summer residence in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, a small town located between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas. The project embraces the transition from the desert to the Pacific Ocean thanks to precise architectural choices, in line with the local tradition.

20-05-2022

Tropical Space and the Cuckoo House

The Vietnamese architectural firm Tropical Space has designed The Cuckoo House in Da Nang, in Vietnam. A combination of a café on the ground floor and a family home on the upper floors, all created using natural materials, for a lively yet serene atmosphere.

31-12-2021

BKP & Scaron’s brick expansion for a twentieth-century working-class home

Expansion of a working-class home offers BKP&Scaron an opportunity to experiment in the classic way with formal idioms and the structure of the building itself.

27-12-2021

Regional Centre for Autism Care in Ciudad Camargo, Mexico

A joint project between the Urbánika architecture studio with Acento Colectivo and Plan Proyecto for the realisation of the Regional Centre for Autism Care (CRIAA) in Ciudad Camargo, in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The Centre is located inside a childrenâ's park, incorporating some of the existing trees to encourage dialogue between its young users and nature.

30-11-2021

Graham Baba Architects for the Lino Tagliapietra Glass Studio

The American Graham Bab architecture studio has transformed a historic pre-existing building in Seattle, an old auction house, into the showroom for the well-known glass artist Lino Tagliapietra. A recovery intervention that emphasises the materiality of architecture, in a balanced dialogue with the glass art.