Tag Housing

04-12-2013

Tsukano architects: house without windows in Japan

Michiya Tsukano’s residential project, which won a special mention in Floornature’s 2013 Next Landmark International Architecture Contest, underlines the clear distinction between the interior of the home and the city outside. The outdoor space is completely redesigned within the walls, shutting out all visual and acoustic elements that could disturb the inhabitants of the home in this inhospitable city landscape.

13-11-2013

Takeshi Hosaka: home flooded with daylight in Yokohama

Takeshi Hosaka’s project focuses on the presence of light in architecture, through the life experience of man represented as a voyage from the light of dawn to the night. The materials used, including the plywood so often associated with contemporary Japanese design, are intended to have the effect of flooding the space with daylight. The home is all on a single level and is not penalised by the shadows of the other buildings around it.

08-11-2013

Alto Adige 2013 architecture prize

The Alto Adige Architecture Prize, a biennial award for the best projects in Alto Adige, will be awarded for the seventh time this year.

04-11-2013

Marco Piva. Space for life – Experiments in contemporary living

A book edited by architect Elena Franzoia, presented recently at Triennale di Milano, tells the story of the "Space for life" installation Marco Piva’s architectural practice designed for Made Expo 2012.

23-10-2013

UID: a home between the earth and the sky in Fukuyama

Keisuke Maeda (UID Architects) has designed a home that brings together earth and sky. The shape of Node, as the Japanese architect’s latest work is called, incorporates an intersection of the layouts of the two levels, which are linked by a staircase, but the true connection is where the trees grow out of the house, reconciling the natural and built environments.

02-10-2013

Murakaji: architecture and landscape in Irimote

The winners of the second international Next Landmark contest, held by Floornature to draw attention to the work of young architects all over the world, are Shoko and Naoto Murakaji, whose residential building on the Japanese island of Irimote interacts with the landscape around it. Materials have been chosen carefully to respond to the demands of the location, and the form of the construction ensures that the building’s natural surroundings can communicate with it.

25-09-2013

Takeshi Hosaka: 60 m2 home made of earth in Yokohama

Takeshi Hosaka’s recent projects, such as his Yokohama house on a 60 m2 lot, demonstrate the ability of his architecture to meet people’s everyday needs, which determine the form, materials and design of the project. What is truly innovative about Hosaka’s project is that it transforms a two-level house into a three-level one, optimising use of the basement and increasing the amount of indoor space that benefits from sunlight.

24-09-2013

Barbara Cappochin International Prize for Architecture

Architect Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres has won the "Barbara Cappochin" International Prize for Architecture, and paediatric hospital designed for Emergency by tamassociati has won the "Giancarlo Ius" Gold Medal.