The existing elongated layout separates living room and dining room with a long hallway, it makes certain areas feel dark and cramped. Through opening up the kids’ bedrooms and the kitchen area, it maximizes the amount of natural light into the interior space, resolving the problems of insufficient natural light in hallway and narrow workspace in kitchen area.
Surly Crab is a modern beach house located on Hood Canal in Washington state. Views to the west take in the waterway and the Olympic Mountains. Inland from the home is a lush forest with ferns, native rhododendrons, madrona, and fir trees. Envisioned as a retreat where friends can gather and admire this particularly rich natural landscape, Surly Crab rests on the shoreline and rises into the trees offering both big view moments of the mountains and Hood Canal, and smaller scale, often missed delights.
DD House’s striking, almost monolithic form announces its presence to the surrounding neighbourhood. Even from up the hill, near the local train station, it emerges out from a nest of roof shingles and a palette of coastal swatches. Yet whilst visually it stands out, the house simultaneously embraces the lifestyle of the New South Wales South Coast, encouraging its inhabitants to laze in bed and stare out the window to the ocean or to lounge on the terrace where the ridgeline forms an intimate horizon. It feels made for relaxing – a quiet hedonism.
Anchored in a serene neighbourhood of Bengaluru city, there stands a unique work of architecture snugly tucked into a quadrilateral plot of land. The uniqueness of the architecture lies in its simplicity of form and palette, tastefully moulded in brick cladding and liquid stone to ideally suit the streetscape of the surrounding locale. Taking inspiration from its striking brick materiality that largely envelopes its elevation, the building is aptly called Brick veil.
Bar Orion Architects, a leading international architecture firm based in Israel and established by Tal and Gidi Bar Orian in 1990, today officially unveils its latest project – Mapu 5 – a square-shaped, new-build residential property located on the corner of Mapu and Yehoash Streets in the heart of Tel Aviv’s White City, a UNESCO World Heritage site known for its extensive collection of Bauhaus and Eclectic Architecture-style buildings.
A project developed by InvestiRE SGR, leading operator in the asset management sector and part of the Banca Finnat Group, the hostel opens to the public in April 2022 in one of the city’s key areas, close to the Fortezza da Basso. It will be the brand’s third hostel, following their second opening in Milan in 2021. Florentine firm Pierattelli Architetture were tasked with defining a new concept of informal hospitality and developing a narrative capable of being form and substance, structure and content, space and message.
Article source: Benjamin Fleury Architecte-Urbaniste
Heritage and insertion
The project is established on the former open-air parking lot of the Pré l’Arpent housing estate, mainly occupied by wrecked vehicles. This housing complex, built in 1974 by the Andrault and Parat agency, consists of a three-story stepped building with a first floor parking lot at its heart. This construction of high heritage quality demonstrates a time when these architects sought to reconcile the qualities of collective and individual housing through intermediate housing. They designed several variations of the kind throughout the territory.
The beneficiaries of this apartment are a young couple, who wanted their first home to be a special place. He likes neutral tones, simplicity and natural materials. She prefers French-style colors and influences. We have combined all these elements so that the result is to everyone’s liking.
Designing anonymous dwellings, without a specific final user, offers the opportunity (and the challenge) to investigate and put into practice concepts such as flexibility, perfectibility and versatility of occupation and the ability to adapt domestic space and time.
This is the case of Flat White, an apartment for rent for long periods of time, a commission that consists of designing, in the client’s own words, “a neutral house” -as if this were possible- susceptible to be occupied by any inhabitant with any way of living; a rehabilitation of a 45m2 space located in Madrid’s city center, near the recently renovated Plaza de España.
I get in the car, turn the keys, listen to the noisy symphony coming from the engine and hit the road to reach my house in the town of Amieira, next to Marinha Grande, land of glass and the mold industry in Portugal.
Arriving at the desired address, after passing through the small family industries and between the pine forest of Leiria and the small town of Amieira, with some isolated and disordered houses, I see amidst the green vegetation, at the bottom of the plot, the house, which has an industrial image, which refers to the industrial pavilions in Marinha Grande, but at the same time conveys the comfort, scale and image of a contemporary dwelling. A large and voluminous metallic canopy, black and dynamic, draws the contours of the house and rests on a glass box that makes it levitate.
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