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09-06-2011

BNKR: Sunset Chapel in Acapulco

Sunset Chapel, by the Mexican architects of BNKR, stands on the hills of Acapulco, a work packed with religious significance, which the project links to use of materials to valorise the landscape around it. In this project sustainability is defined in terms of respect for the building’s surroundings, which it does not modify but fits into, drawing on them as inspiration for the architectural composition.

03-05-2011

Copenhagen, interior design from Norm Architects

A recent interior design project by Danish architectural studio Norm Architects completely transformed a penthouse in Copenhagen.

27-04-2011

Wiel Arets Architects – Private home for artists

In the home designed by architect Wiel Arets, the interior and exterior walls are made entirely out of glass, with different degrees of opacity to ensure privacy and light up different rooms.

11-04-2011

Yoshichika Takagi, a home in a parking lot

Young Japanese architect Yoshichika Takagi recently completed a wooden home built in a parking lot in central Akita. The project is characterised by the complete absence of barriers separating the garden around the home from its surroundings, for the division is provided by the home’s walls.

12-03-2011

A-cero Concrete House single-family dwelling in Madrid

A-cero architectural studio recently completed work on a large single-family home in a Madrid suburb.

11-03-2011

EASTERN design office, MOUNTAINS & OPENING HOUSE

The architects of EASTERN design office have designed a building as a home and studio for a Japanese running shoe brand.

10-03-2011

Holiday home in Sajima

In Yasutaka, a tourist resort not far from Tokyo, a home on the waterfront stands out for its windows, each different in shape, as in an infants’ shape sorter. Designed as a home for brief holidays, the building features a dance of floor and wall covering materials on the inside.

10-03-2011

Bunker 599: from architecture to monument

By recovering a 1940 bunker in Diefdijk in the Netherlands, Rietveld Landscape and Atelier de Lyon have created a site of interest to tourists by transforming a historic work of architecture into a monument. They completely removed a part of the cement structure of the bunker to produce an accessible path from the land to beyond the water line in the midst of the artificial landscape before it.