Tag Bricks

15-01-2021
The Gustav by KCAP, the good life in the city
KCAP Architects&Planners has completed a residential complex in the Zuidas district of Amsterdam. The campus consists of two buildings grouped around a semi-public courtyard that ends up being an extension of the homes and focuses on the tenants’ wellbeing with superior outdoor spaces.

14-01-2021
Imperial Kiln Museum di Studio Zhu-Pei, history and materials
The Imperial Kiln Museum, designed by Studio Zhu-Pei is located in Jingdezhen, renowned for its Chinese porcelain, stands out for its handmade brick vaults. The architecture is reminiscent of the shape of the kilns and even incorporates archaeological relics in the museum project.

01-01-2021
La Cartonnerie: reclamation of a brick paper mill by h2o architectes
An old brick paper mill has been converted into a business incubator in Pont-Audemer, France

28-12-2020
Urban density, the Grasshopper Studio and Courtyard by Wittman Estes
US architecture firm Wittman Estes has designed a small studio and courtyard behind a house that was built in the 1940s. An elegant, and at the same time sustainable response that provides a design solution on a human scale without losing sight of the pressing urgency to densify the urban fabric.

02-11-2020
John Puttick Associates, architecture and rituals
UK firm John Puttick Associates has designed a rather unusual piece of architecture, a mourners’ shelter on the grounds of the North Watford Cemetery, in south-east England. The cedar shingle clad building is almost sculptural in shape and creates a physical and spiritual gathering place.

01-09-2020
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter residential complex in Oslo
The Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has developed a housing complex in Oslo, bringing together tradition and innovation by using a contemporary architectural language in a historically significant context.

31-08-2020
Anna and Eugeni Bach behind a sweet transformation in La Bisbal
The architects, Anna and Eugeni Bach, are the team behind a transformation that we could call sweet both because of their approach and because the object of the conversion was originally a chocolate factory in the centre of the small town of La Bisbal in Catalonia.

03-08-2020
ORA and a house inside a ruin
The young designers from the architecture firm, ORA based in Znojmo, Czech Republic, completed a house inside the remains of an old building in Zadní Arnoštov, a village in the Moravia region. A project for the grand architecture that respects its layers of history without creating a historical fake.