This french rustic stone house furnished without excess reveals the beauty of raw materials. In the heart of downtown Bordeaux, France, ‘Sacre Coeur, stone house’ by Theo Coutanceau Domini, takes shape as a restructured and redone ruin in which the main living space combines all the functions.
Inspired by the traditional Chinese courtyard house, the design team created a triple-height atrium in the central area of the residence. The introverted atrium combines both transparency and a sense of privacy. Light and shadows randomly scatter on the white walls around the atrium. The design stimulates the free communication among the occupants, nature and space.
Architecture firmly holds its place among top degrees students choose to undertake. Many people strive to construct buildings, renovate ramshackle premises, and many more. Experienced architects know their way around and are well-paid specialists. But with all the benefits come hard work and lots of practice.
In July of 1972, on the heels of the revolutionary 1960s, an era of social unrest interwoven with radical shifts in our collective cultural, scientific, and artistic imagination, a group of rebels and idealists dared to imagine a new kind of architecture institution—a school without walls—and SCI-Arc was born.
Sound House is a 5,500sf single-family home on a steep slope site in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood. The program for the house was unique, in that it needed to house a large blended family of two adults and six children living together for the first time.
The Ultimate Nostalgia: Tai'an Ceremony Hall (Shandong Province, China), it was unveiled as an exemplar of China's rural revitalization practice. In this project, SYN Architects took part in landscape design, architecture design and interior design.
Spanish architect and visual artist Dionisio González has envisioned series of surrealist structures for Dauphín Island Archipelago.
Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) and Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) (Lee Wai Lee), together with its affiliated HKDI Gallery present its flagship exhibition of the year “Zaha Hadid Architects: Vertical Urbanism” as part of their ‘Essence of Design’ programme.