This project received an honorable mention in the Mexico’s city Biennial Architecture, it is located in a land with two opposite roads, Viaducto Miguel Alemán and Obrero Mundial street. For the final volume of the project, the team of CRAFT Arquitectos started from two premises: the first was to break with the frontal continuity generated by the facades of the buildings of the primary avenue and the second, to create 14 apartments of double orientation. In this way the project is separated from the east adjoining, leaving a courtyard that visually connects the two streets and generates a third facade in the volume.
La Borda housing cooperative is a development self-organized by its users to access decent, non-speculative housing that places its use value in the center, through a collective structure. The idea of a housing cooperative was born in 2012 as a project of Can Batlló driven by the community in the process of recovery of the industrial premises, and the neighborhood and cooperative fabric of the Sants neighborhood of Barcelona.
The project is located on a public land of social housing, with a leasehold of 75 years. Located in Constitució Street, in a bordering position of the industrial area of Can Batlló with a facade to the existing neighborhood of La Bordeta.
The Balmoral House is located within the lower north-shore suburb of Balmoral. The site presents many difficulties being wedged shaped, on the low side of the street, hemmed in by two substantial existing houses and with just half the land area of its neighbours. Where previously the site would have enjoyed the benefits of a sunny rear yard beyond the rear building alignment, this is no longer the case with the yard having been sold-off to the neighbours.
Our design process has been about finding amenity where on first appearance there appears to be little.
Lane End is located on the edge of the South Downs on an elevated site surrounded by woodland and stunning views. It replaces a poorly constructed, inefficient home that didn’t engage with the location.
The design creates a contemporary, energy efficient home, incorporating natural materials to harmonise with the site. The ground floor has an open plan living space, separate music room, office, a strong connection with the outside with full height doors onto a large covered BBQ terrace. An important requirement was a ‘secret place’, somewhere where the clients could hide and relax. A separate living room for colder months, smaller and more intimate in scale with a feature fireplace crafted from locally sourced brick, the chimney rises through the home anchoring the house.
This is the combined residence and office of the project’s architect. Located in a beautiful natural setting selected as one of Japan’s top one hundred sited for viewing cherry blossoms, the building’s exterior features a natural stone base intended to blend in with the environment.
Seeking to reflect a distinctive Japanese aesthetic that favors natural materials and finds beauty in simplicity, the design emphasizes plainness and blank spaces in the interior. Because the boundary between these interior spaces and the outside world is ambiguous, a wealth of connections and depths arise, resulting in a high-quality living and working environment that leaves lingering impressions.
This beach house is located on the Atlantic coast of Argentina, 10 km away from Pinamar, and 500 meters away from the sea. The intention was to animate the house using a path passing through a coniferous forest, through patios which capture light and articulate the spaces. The project is developed on one floor where the central patio divides the house into two volumes, one for public use and the other one for private use. A second patio allows the connection with nature from the bedrooms without losing privacy, with a wooden enclosure that generates a rhythm of lights and shadows forming the main facade.
We are in the heart of Livorno, in an incredibly seductive neighborhood: the Venezia district, with its canals that recall the unique Italian city of Venezia, the nightlife and the charm of a timeless neighborhood.
In this corner of the city there is one of the latest projects by MODO architettura + design studio: an apartment located on the top floor of a historic building that comes to life through bold choices that reflect the personality of those who live there.
Entering in the apartment, the protagonist is a long corridor on whose left side all the rooms develop framed by wide arched openings.
The apartment is located in urban area of Da Nang city of Vietnam. Housing typology in urban areas is getting more and more monotonous because of the plot sizes available. Most sites are rectangular with common walls and front connected to main road. Front side is the only source of light and ventilation making it challenging to design. Houses in rural Vietnam are planned around common spaces lile gardens, ponds, lakes where people connect together. In urban areas, due to lack of area there are less community spaces affecting the users and their connectivity with each other. As the structures started getting higher, maintaining connectivity between the users became difficult. The main concept of the structure was derived from terraced fields. The units are stacked on each other with stepped terraces which provides plenty of light to the apartment units. On the inner sides, atriums are provided so as to get natural light and air ventilation. Stepped terraces provide connectivity between the users and increase vertical interaction. There are small common spaces, gardens for users to gather and interact with each other. The material used for the construction is unburnt bricks which are environment friendly. Brick texture gives a sense of warmth and simple village life of Vietnam. The objective of this design is to combine nature and light to create natural and healthy living environment.
MENU and Norm Architects have teamed up yet again to bring life to the new MENU HQ, successfully introducing a creative hybrid to the Copenhagen neighborhood of Nordhavnen–a unique concept that reflects the rapidly changing intersection of home, work and hospitality in a single, community-building universe. The Audo reflects MENU’s founding philosophy of collaborative spirit. It masterfully unites co-working and event facilities, a café, restaurant and concept store, as well as an exclusive hotel residence through design, making transitions from one space to another seamless, inspiring and pleasurable. Nathan Williams from the leading lifestyle publication Kinfolk leads The Audo’s creative direction, bringing global perspective to the space.
Article source: Almazán y Arquitectos Asociados SC
Within Mexico City´s traditional neighborhood of “Condesa” lay a mixture of old and new, tall and short, luxurious and modest buildings scattered within parks with dense vegetation and calm environments, “Condesa” holds a charm that no other place in the city may encounter. This is the place where a short two-story building was erected in the early 1900´s, first as a single-family home, and later converted into a “vecindad” (small multi-family residential building). As time passed, the building was abandoned and left deteriorating, until 2014 when new ownership arrived and decided to bring this “Casona” back to its former glory.
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