Tag Housing

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.

18-06-2014

Hendee-Borg home in Sonoma, California. William O’Brien Jr

Architect William O’Brien Jr. responds to the artist's need to live with his own works of art and reconcile everyday life with moments of creative inspiration. The project expressing this synthesis is the Hendee-Borg home, a contemporary building in California with a shed roof of the kind typically found on industrial buildings.

11-06-2014

Lund Hagem architects: house on Lyngholmen Island

Lund Hagem architects designs a contemporary building inspired by the colours and shapes of the Norwegian landscape. This holiday home on Lyngholmen Island uses white cement, treated ash cladding and glass, drawing inspiration from the rocky landscape sloping down to the sea.

28-05-2014

Katsuma Tai: the home as protective shell in Tokyo

Japanese architect Katsuma Tai transforms building restrictions into opportunities for the form of the home. In this home in Tokyo’s Minato-ku district, the main façade is divided into two tapered parts. The volume gains living space and is lightened at the same time, reducing its impact on the city skyline.

14-05-2014

Mardones: a home fit for a champion in Santiago de Chile

Architect Gonzalo Mardones Viviani has built a villa for tennis champion Marcelo Rìos on the hills above Santiago de Chile. His design focuses on use of materials in relation to light. The large ceramic floor tiles are consistent with the concrete surface bleached by the action of titanium dioxide.

08-05-2014

Sustainable housing in Cambodia. Building Trust International.

The non-profit organisation Building Trust International has completed construction of three sustainable homes in Cambodia.

07-05-2014

Saitowitz: bridge home in California

Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects underlines the originality of the site of his bridge-shaped home in California, built out of the most commonly used materials in modern American architecture: steel, concrete and glass, employed here in both the structure and the cladding.

04-04-2014

National Architecture Week: The Role Architects and Design Play for Positive Change.

National Architecture Week is a public awareness campaign from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) dedicated to focussing the attention to the role architects play in social change.