Tag Housing

29-04-2015

Ze Home, Paratelier’s new house in Palmela (Portugal)

Ze Home in Palmela (Portugal) is the latest new building by Paratelier, a young Italian studio which has moved to Lisbon. Ze Home stands out in the landscape of Palmela with its ochre bare concrete structure, for which Paratelier drew inspiration from the keep of Palmela castle.

07-04-2015

Studio Arthur Casas and MP House, Quinta da Baroneza, San Paolo

In the Quinta da Baroneza estate, near San Paolo in Brazil, stands the new MP House, built by Studio Arthur Casas, designer of the Brazilian pavilion at Expo Milano 2015. The MP House in Quinta da Baroneza optimises use of the slope of the land to create a terraced building.

27-03-2015

Compact, sustainable housing in Paris with a crèche, by Chartier Dalix

Paris is going through a great deal of change and its architecture is responding to new needs.

27-03-2015

The Pritzker Prize, Nobel Prize of architecture

Floornature features the architects who have won the Pritzker Prize in recent years and their projects.

25-03-2015

Harmonia 57 Triptyque, Sao Paolo Brazil

Starting with their contribution to the volume “Architecture on the web. A critical approach to communication”, edited by Paolo Schianchi, Triptyque studio talks about architecture in San Paolo, Brazil and a competition for a polar station.

18-03-2015

House VDV by Graux & Baeyens, a contemporary Flemish farmhouse

In their study of the roots of the contemporary home, Graux & Baeyens architecten offer their own interpretation of a traditional Flemish farmhouse in House VDV in Destelbergen, Belgium. In House VDV Graux & Baeyens do away with the dormers and skylights and redesign the rectangular volume to create a zig-zag shape embracing the greenery around it.

16-03-2015

HOME, vertical residential complex in Paris

HOME is the first 50-metre tall housing project to be built in Paris since the 1970s.

11-02-2015

World Habitat Awards 2014, Upgrading of Audi União Shantytown

Two of the ten finalists of the World Habitat Awards are projects designed to help improve living conditions in informal settlements.