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23-04-2021

Cantilever House by Zero Energy Design Lab

Indian architecture firm ZED Lab - an acronym for Zero Energy Design Laboratory - has specialised in creating zero-impact buildings since 2009. Cantilever House is the latest project to be completed by the firm, which is headed up by Sachin and Payal Rastogi and located in Raj Nagar, in the district of Ghaziabad. The villa, in all its luxury and opulence, presents an interesting blend of styles - almost a contemporary maximalism - and uses a range of expedients to minimise its energy consumption and environmental footprint.

05-03-2021

Archisbang: “Il Generale” home in Ivrea, Italy

“Il Generale”, a home in Ivrea designed by Archisbang, is a renovation project balancing respect for the layout of the original building with limitation of the need for demolition and improvement of energy efficiency, while giving the building a bold new look that stands out in contrast with the other homes in the neighbourhood.

26-02-2021

Curved steel façade for BIG’s The Smile building

BIG has constructed a building on 126th Street in Harlem, New York, with a façade made of interlocking blackened steel panels. The building’s curved shape has earned it the nickname “The Smile”.

19-02-2021

Westbeat designed by Studioninedots: combining private residences with public space in Amsterdam

The Dutch architects of Studioninedots have completed construction of Westbeat, a sculptural residential building in Amsterdam’s Nieuw-West district. Westbeat stands out with a base composed of eighty-six spectacularly interwoven arches of different shapes and sizes, containing a 3250 square metre superspace designed for public use, a flexible structure in which to experiment with new forms of socialisation incorporating a number of pedestrian crossings through the building.

12-02-2021

UNStudio and Bauwerk new Van B residences in Munich

UNStudio has unveiled a new residential project in Munich. The Van B residential units under construction in the city’s new “Kreativquartier” have been described as "analogue smart" homes, in which the architects create highly flexible, comfortable living spaces that reimagine the future of urban living and multiply useable indoor space.

10-02-2021

GARCIAGERMAN Arquitectos Comillas House in Cantabria, Spain

architect Jacobo García-Germán and his studio GARCIAGERMAN Arquitectos recently completed the restoration of the historic Comillas House in Comillas, in Spain’s autonomous community of Cantabria. The house was a baronial residence constructed in the late nineteenth century, when it belonged to Antonio Bona, the Italian master builder of El Capricho or Villa Quijano, an eclectic construction designed by Antoni Gaudí.

08-02-2021

Envisage designs White Flower Hall, girls’ hostel for the Mann School in Alipur, New Delhi

The new girls’ hostel of the Mann School in Alipur, India, was recently completed. A sustainable complex designed to foster learning, as well as the interaction between students, for a comprehensive development of their personalities. "A home away from home": this was the guiding idea of the project designed by the Envisage studio, founded by architects Meena Murthy Kakkar and Vishal Kakkar in New Delhi.

22-01-2021

DAP studio new Palestro 3 university residence in Turin

DAP studio transforms a historic building in central Turin into a university residence. The architects renew and enhance the building’s seven floors, succeeding in preserving the historic building’s charm and elegance while adding a contemporary twist to create residences built to high architectural and compositional standards.