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04-11-2015

Interview with Shigeru Ban

Winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize Shigeru Ban talks about his recent projects at the “Archi-Depot Tokyo” exhibition at Triennale di Milano. Shigeru Ban discusses his intuition of mobile screens for the Oita Prefectural Art Museum and his contribution to reconstruction after the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015.

21-10-2015

Rudanko + Kankkunen Atelier Heikkilä Finland

Rudanko + Kankkunen Architects designed a home and studio for designer Simo Heikkilä.

20-10-2015

Trabocco, a Room Over the Sea by Studio Zero85

Pescara, Italy. The Adriatic coast is home to the “trabocco”, a traditional "fishing mechanism" consisting of a wooden platform extending out over the sea. Studio Zero85 transformed one of these traditional constructions into a habitable room, giving it a new function and a new image.

13-10-2015

8th Ave by Naturehumaine, Montréal, Canada

Canadian architect Stéphane Rasselet, head of the studio Naturehumaine, redesigned the spaces in a typical two-floor duplex to make it into a single home, livened up with the generous use of colour typically associated with his projects.

09-10-2015

BBM Sustainable Design Brighton Waste House Brighton University

Waste House is a Brighton University research project: a laboratory as big as a house, built out of waste products. The project was shortlisted for RIBA’S 2015 Stephen Lawrence Prize.

06-10-2015

Niall McLaughlin Architects The Fishing Hut Hampshire

Niall McLaughlin Architects has designed a “shelter” for fishermen called The Fishing Hut which is transformed along with its surroundings as the seasons change.

06-10-2015

Connekt: a coffee shop that makes Holland a better place

Connekt Café was created in the boiler room of Delft University, in the Netherlands, by Ateliers Interior & Architecture. A coffee shop in high-tech style that brings the authorities, cultural institutions and industries together to promote sustainable mobility in the country.

05-10-2015

9 3/4 children’s bookstore and café in Medellin

9 3/4 is a bookstore and café in Medellin, Colombia. It is for children, but adults are welcome too. Colombian architectural practice Plasma Nodo is convinced the city needs more social spaces and less purely commercial ones.