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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

19-05-2020

Continuous Plate House 2.0 by Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato

The Continuous Plate House 2.0 by the Japanese architects, Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato from F.A.D.S. Design in Fukui, Japan is a creative project that revisits the spatial relations and materials of the original design, featuring a reinforced concrete slab that folds up and over the house.

18-05-2020

Housing created by Summary, when prefabrication goes creative

With his installation “infrastructure-structure-architecture” Samuel Gonçalves from the Portuguese architecture studio, Summary took prefabricated elements of a real, existing project to the Arsenale of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale: Gomos System. This year, he went a step further and completed the first apartment block that combines the advantages of prefabrication with eye-catching aesthetics.

11-05-2020

Rocco Design Architects Associates Vanke Cloud City Nanshan District Shenzhen

Rocco Design Architects Associates recently completed Vanke Cloud City, a shopping precinct in Shenzhen. The new complex is the urban element unifying the Nanshan District, an area offering a number of attractions for the population which were until now separate from one another, without a unified pedestrian flow leading to and among points of interest.

08-05-2020

Flekkefjord Cultural Centre made of timber and concrete

Helen & Hard architects’ Flekkefjord Cultural Centre is an enthralling building capable of adapting to the local architecture while retaining its contemporary spirit.

04-05-2020

IGArchitects designs Café in Ujina, Hiroshima

In Japan, along the Hiroshima coast and specifically in the Ujina district located in the southern part of the city, architecture firm IGArchitects designed a new coffee shop. This is the first project that architect Masato Igarashi designs with the studio he founded in 2019, after working for several years for other architecture studios, including the Suppose Design Office firm.

14-04-2020

ellement architects for the new Pilana Karbid corporate facility

Czech architecture firm, ellement architects, has built the new administrative and production facilities for a company that manufactures precision tools, Pilana Karbid. The architecture has been turned into a real business card for the company, also conveying the message of its sustainable approach.