Tag Housing

22-12-2020

Alpi Chiaro Venato: a SapienStone countertop for elegance and practicality in the kitchen

The SapienStone kitchen countertop offers a response to all the practical and aesthetic demands of today’s kitchens. A vast choice of colours and effects are combined with the advanced performance of high-tech porcelain to create a unique, customised product. Versatile and refined, the new Alpi Chiaro Venato surface maintains continuity with the evolution of SapienStone surfaces, for a custom-designed surface that goes with just about anything

04-12-2020

Alvisi Kirimoto Viale Giulini Affordable Housing in Barletta

Alvisi Kirimoto designed Viale Giulini Affordable Housing in Zona 167, to the southwest of the town of Barletta in Puglia, Italy: a rigorous, sober building with a sculptural presence in a highly varied, messy suburb lacking greenery and architectural quality. Viale Giulini Affordable Housing fits into a wider-ranging series of projects for urban regeneration of the entire district which also includes a park and pedestrian district designed by ABDR, Parco dell'Umanità — Asse Pedonale Attrezzato.

27-11-2020

3d printable buildings for living on the moon by BIG, ICON and SEArch+

3D printing technology for architecture could make it possible to build a house on the moon

13-11-2020

Manuelle Gautrand’s Edison Lite, a co-housing project that reinvents Paris

Edison Lite, a co-housing project by architect Manuelle Gautrand constructed in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, is one of the winners of the “Réinventer Paris 1” competition: a call for innovative urban projects with which the City of Paris has selected 22 architectural projects out of more than 350 entries submitted. Manuelle Gautrand proposes a new way of living in the city in which residents enjoy use of unique shared spaces such as a rooftop terrace, a vegetable plot and a workshop, while sharing ownership of a retail space that allows them to cut building management costs.

03-11-2020

I-Park, a green apartment building by NBJ Architectes

With I-Park, NBJ Architectes proposes an apartment building with a faceted and partly planted facade. The greenery on the architecture connects with the adjacent parkland and gives the city of Montpellier a green landmark.

15-10-2020

Lombardini22 QUID Quintiliano District social housing in Milan

Architectural studio Lombardini22 has completed its first social housing project. L22 living, the group’s residential brand, designed QUID, which stands for Quintiliano District: an energy class A housing development complete with common areas expressly intended for promoting socialisation and interaction among residents.

13-10-2020

Piuarch designs Cascina Sella Nuova refurbishment project in Milan

The project designed by Piuarch and Silvia Passerini’s studio won the public tender launched by Milan’s local administration for the refurbishment of Cascina Sella Nuova. This ancient rural structure, built in the 15th century and located just outside the city, was in a severe state of disrepair. The complex will be restored according to sustainable and green principles and it will include housing, common spaces, experimental and urban gardens.