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![YUUA designed a house in Tokyo only 1.8 metres wide
YUUA designed a house in Tokyo only 1.8 metres wide](https://www.floornature.com/media/photos/1/12326/01_yuua_house_tokyo_ph-sobajima-toshihiro_last_sez.jpg)
30-01-2017
YUUA designed a house in Tokyo only 1.8 metres wide
The Japanese refer to long, narrow lots as "eel’s beds". On one of these, YUUA Architects and Associates built a whole house, accepting the tough challenge of making life pleasant in a building only one metre and eighty centimetres wide.
![Dattner Architects and WXY architecture + urban design Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 Garage and Salt Shed
Dattner Architects and WXY architecture + urban design Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 Garage and Salt Shed](https://www.floornature.com/media/photos/1/12291/01_dattner-architects_with_wxy-architecture_manhattan-districts_last_sez.jpg)
25-01-2017
Dattner Architects and WXY architecture + urban design Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 Garage and Salt Shed
The Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 Garage and Salt Shed designed by Dattner Architects and WXY architecture + urban design have been presented with AIA New York’s Honor Award.
![Francisco Pardo Havre 77 Mexico City
Francisco Pardo Havre 77 Mexico City](https://www.floornature.com/media/photos/1/12292/01_francisco-pardo-arquitecto_havre77_ph-diana-arnau_last_sez.jpg)
16-01-2017
Francisco Pardo Havre 77 Mexico City
The Havre 77 project in Mexico City by architects Francisco Pardo and Julio Amezcua is an interesting example of a project in an existing built area and a demonstration of how "empty spaces" in the urban fabric can be reclaimed, if “empty” spaces are defined as entirely or partially vacant spaces left behind by wars or disasters.
![Piuarch Amber&Art Flagship Store in St. Petersburg
Piuarch Amber&Art Flagship Store in St. Petersburg](https://www.floornature.com/media/photos/1/12252/01_piuarch_amber-art_sanpietroburgo_last_sez.jpg)
29-12-2016
Piuarch Amber&Art Flagship Store in St. Petersburg
Jewels are exhibited like works of art in the first Amber&Art flagship store, designed by Piuarch, located in the famous home of the merchant Antonov in the historic centre of St. Peterburg, built in 1824 by architect Domenico Adamini.
![OMA Faena Forum, Faena Bazaar and Park - Miami Beach
OMA Faena Forum, Faena Bazaar and Park - Miami Beach](https://www.floornature.com/media/photos/1/12218/01_oma_faena-district_ph-iwan-baan_last_sez.jpg)
23-12-2016
OMA Faena Forum, Faena Bazaar and Park - Miami Beach
OMA’s project for the Faena District in Miami Beach was inaugurated recently. Three separate buildings, the Faena Forum, Faena Bazaar and Park, are linked by public spaces with views over the Atlantic Ocean offering the city a dynamic art, culture and design district.
![DS House: Olivier Dwek’s pseudo-symmetries
DS House: Olivier Dwek’s pseudo-symmetries](https://www.floornature.com/media/photos/1/12202/01_olivier-dwek_ds-house_last_sez.jpg)
20-12-2016
DS House: Olivier Dwek’s pseudo-symmetries
Olivier Dwek believes we have an ancestral instinct to seek perfect symmetry, but an excess of symmetry bores us. The Belgian architect designed DS House to look symmetrical even though it isn’t.
![KAAN Architecten's new De Bank building in Rotterdam
KAAN Architecten's new De Bank building in Rotterdam](https://www.floornature.com/media/photos/1/12194/01_de-bank_kaan-architecten_ph-simone-bossi_last_sez.jpg)
16-12-2016
KAAN Architecten's new De Bank building in Rotterdam
De Bank, the name of the building containing KAAN Architecten's new headquarters in Rotterdam, recalls the building's original function as the former headquarters of the Nederlandsche Bank. It is located in the heart of the city, on the banks of the Meuse River by the Erasmus Bridge, and another KAAN Architecten project, the Education Centre at Erasmus University Medical Centre.