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14-07-2020

GRAFT completes Charlie Living in Berlin

Charlie Living by GRAFT is the largest predominantly residential new build project in Friedrichstadt, in direct proximity to what used to be Checkpoint Charlie. This is an open set of four new buildings standing in one of the last empty spaces along the former strip of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin Mitte.

10-07-2020

Mecanoo’s brick homes in Manchester

A brick building completes a major urban renewal project in Manchester’s Hulme quarter

09-07-2020

LANDFORMhouse, sustainable architecture in Riyadh by theOtherDada

The latest residential project by the Lebanese architectural firm theOtherDada is located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. LANDFORMhouse stands out for its landscaping strategy and for the use of a formal language derived from the study of the region’s past indigenous civilization, the Nabateans, proposing a green approach.

01-07-2020

Giuseppe Tortato Architects: an exciting new story for a penthouse in Padua

In the historical centre of Padua, just a stone’s throw from the Church of the Eremitani and the Scrovegni Chapel, architect Giuseppe Tortato has completed the interior design of a penthouse at the top of an 18th-century building. A project that has once again imbued the apartment with a sense of excitement, freeing it from the superfluous additions resulting from a hurried renovation in the 1980s, emphasising the natural charm of the existing wooden structures and creating a new and intriguing ‘story’ that ties together all the rooms.

29-06-2020

Tchoban Voss Architekten presents contemporary interpretations of traditional brick buildings in Anklam

In Anklam, Germany, German firm Tchoban Voss Architekten has recently completed an interesting project: a residential and commercial building with three gables marked out with three different colours, making for an architecture that will cut an impressive figure in the historical centre. The architects proposed a contemporary interpretation of the traditional brick façade that is characteristic of the city’s historical architecture.

29-06-2020

A sustainable semi-detached house by baukultur/ca

baukultur/ca, a design and development studio in Toronto has recently completed the construction of two new contemporary and highly sustainable homes. Their design features a limited footprint and impact that exceeds NetZero Ready standards and takes advantage of an unused plot of land in the neighbourhood.

22-06-2020

MVRDV converts an office into Villa Stardust home in Rotterdam

Addition of a central patio with a garden is the strong point of this recent project by MVRDV bringing new life to a former commercial building. The highly sustainable project is inspired by the principles of the circular economy and by the concept of the riad, a form of spontaneous traditional Moroccan residential architecture often with two or more stories, with the rooms arranged around inner courtyards and gardens.

16-06-2020

Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados designs LG Residence in Bragança Paulista

In Bragança Paulista, a town north of São Paulo in Brazil, architecture firm Reinach Mendonça Arquitetos Associados designed a house in the vicinity of a lush forest. The presence of the large garden and swimming pool suggested a traditional layout of the rooms, split into a living and dining room on the main floor and bedrooms on the upper floor. Instead, architects stepped outside the confines of this traditional system and designed a more flexible distribution of the spaces, which responds to the client’s needs.