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23-06-2017

The Reynard Rossi-Udry home by Savioz Fabrizzi architectes in Ormône

Savioz Fabrizzi architectes restored an Alpine home built in 1860 which has been badly abused over the years. Savioz Fabrizzi gave a contemporary new look to an Alpine home made of timber and stone, the Reynard Rossi-Udry home in Ormône, a small village in Switzerland.

07-06-2017

Spaceworkers’ Casa Cabo de Vila in Paredes, Portugal

Spaceworkers has built Casa Cabo de Vila in Paredes, Portugal. The project has a sense of constant tension, with the architects choosing an open-plan layout which emphasizes the contrast between the interior and the exterior.

02-06-2017

LESS, urban amplifier by AAVP

Vincent Parreira's multi-award winning Paris-based architecture firm, AAVP has designed an urban complex called LESS in Paris, whose different functions - with 69 social housing units and a large gymnasium - have made it an amplifier of urban life.

26-05-2017

Studio mk27 Marcio Kogan: Casa Catuçaba

In Catuçaba, up in the high valleys between San Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, stands a house designed by Marcio Kogan’s studio mk27 which fits perfectly with its environment. Leaving behind one of his favourite materials – concrete – Marcio Kogan has designed a house using FSC certified wood.

22-05-2017

A soft house: Mimosa Architects' Family House

There is a neighbourhood in Dob??š, in the Czech Republic, where the houses reflect their owners' personality, forming an architectural puzzle which is as various as it is unusual. This is where Mimosa Architects built Family House.

10-05-2017

Alberto Campo Baeza and his Domus Aurea in Monterrey

Gravity and light join in a new synthesis in Alberto Campo Baeza’s house in Monterrey, Domus Aurea. A homage to Luis Barragàn, Campo Baeza’s Domus Aurea has a gold wall that commands light throughout the entire project. Elements of the Spanish architect’s design philosophy appear in the home.

26-04-2017

OOPEAA: Riihi house in Alajärvi (Finland)

OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture designed the Riihi house in Alajärvi (Finland), a home that updates the model of the Finnish farmhouse built around a central courtyard, with red fir cladding both inside and outside and great energy efficiency.

21-03-2017

MVRDV Kwantes house in Rotterdam

Privacy and outdoor life are the requests the clients presented to the architects of MVRDV for the home they completed recently in Rotterdam, a project worth discovering on the other side of the wall.