Tag Housing

05-01-2015

Singapore: the skyline of the garden city designed to be the city of the future

12-11-2014

Alberto Campo Baeza and the House of the Infinite in Cádiz (Spain)

Alberto Campo Baeza calls it the most radical house he has ever built. The House of the Infinite in Cádiz, an ancient port from which ships set off for the New World, is a manifesto of Alberto Campo Baeza’s poetics. Idea, space and light are expressed in the House of the Infinite, a lookout over the Atlantic Ocean.

05-11-2014

Takuro Yamamoto’S White Cave House and the snows of Kanazawa

Takuro Yamamoto has designed a home in Kanazawa, a Japanese city renowned for its copious snowfalls and piercing cold. An L-shaped white cave is carved out of the volume of the home to shelter the path from the snow and ensure privacy.

01-10-2014

House for trees by Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Ho Chi Minh City

The innovative young studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a House for trees on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. Particularly aware of the importance of building sustainable constructions, Vo Trong Nghia attempts to enrich an area where intense urbanisation has left no room for greenery with his House for Trees.

27-08-2014

Souto de Moura designs the Ponte de Lima 3 house in Portugal

Eduardo Souto de Moura, winner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize, is one of Portugal’s most prominent architects. His recent plan for house in Ponte de Lima 3, an house in northern Portugal, ideally represents his poetics of form while at the same time expressing a sense of sustainability based on knowledge of and respect for the history of the place.

27-08-2014

McBride awarded numerous prizes at the Victorian Architecture Awards

McBride Charles Ryan’s Dallas Brooks Community Primary School has won the Victorian Architecture Medal, a prestigious award assigned by the order of architects in Victoria, Australia, and it’s not the architectural studio’s only award.

06-08-2014

Ellevuelle architetti’s Casa Esse wins the 2014 Next Landmark contest

The winner of the third Next Landmark international architecture contest organised by Floornature is Ellevuelle architetti of Italy, for Casa Esse, a new construction in the countryside near Forlì. Ellevuelle architetti drew their inspiration for the building’s linear layout from the artificial landmarks in the area.

16-07-2014

Vo Trong Nghia Architects: concrete home in Binh Thanh (Ho Chi Minh)

The Binh Thanh house is a good introduction to the contemporary architecture of Ho Chi Minh, as seen from the point of view of Vo Trong Nghia Architects, a young but well-established Vietnamese studio. Its characteristic bare concrete façade serves as a sunshade. The work makes use of traditional local forms, interpreted with a view to achieving sustainability.