Tag Housing

29-03-2017

y+M design office and the Floating Roof House in Kobe

After the Rain Shelter House in Yanogo, y+M design office designed the Floating Roof House in Kobe, expressing the idea of landmark and private square. The Floating Roof House has a double roof that creates a gap to let in light and air.

01-03-2017

spbr arquitectos: weekend home in San Paolo

spbr arquitectos’s weekend home in San Paolo addresses the theme of the home, creating a privileged residence representing an improvement on the type of home most common in the city. First of all, the home designed by spbr is located in one of San Paolo’s most central, well cared-for districts, on a lot near Rio Pinheiros and Avenida Faria Lima, one of the city’s most important traffic arteries.

10-02-2017

World Habitat Awards 2017-18

Entries must be submitted by 1 March 2017 for the World Habitat Awards 2017-18, the architecture award for housing projects that demonstrate practical, innovative and sustainable solutions to current housing needs, run by the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) in partnership with UN-Habitat.

06-02-2017

Karawitz Maison Marly Marly-le-Roi France

A happy life is not a hidden life. This is the motto behind the single-family home recently completed in Marly-le-Roi, France by architects Milena Karanesheva and Mischa Witzmann of Studio Karawitz.

31-01-2017

Luigi Rosselli Architects Duplex in the city, Sydney

Architect Luigi Rosselli has converted a building in Sydney constructed in the 1920s into a duplex on a human scale with big patios for admiring the view of the city, with its skyscrapers by Renzo Piano, Sir Norman Foster and Ingenhoven Architects.

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.

25-01-2017

2017 AIA Honor Awards, Carmel Place by nARCHITECTS

The start of the new year also ushers in the first architecture awards.

23-01-2017

Printed architecture: DUS Architects’ Urban Cabin

After founding 3D Print Living Lab, Dutch studio DUS Architects continues its research into printed architecture with Urban Cabin, a little refuge from the chaos of the big city that can also be used as a shelter on the site of natural disasters and is completely recyclable.