Portuguese architect and interior designer Joana Marcelino Studio has designed Casa Matias Alves rehabilitation and expansion of a building in the historic center of Leiria, Portugal.
Project description by architect:
This is the rehabilitation and expansion of a building in the historic cente...
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Photography
Morpholio (cover image)
The Nijmegen-based architecture firms BRUIS Architectuur & IHC Architects has recently designed Shifted House a futuristic home in Hilversum, Netherlands.
Project description by architect:
This futuristic home owes its scenography to the shifted forms that respond to nature. Because the two m...
Oak-covered house in Poland designed by Wrasaw-based architecture & interior design studio Kando Architects.
Project description by architect:
The main factors that determined choice of the houses location by our clients was their dream of proximity to the nature and their will to escape the u...
The requirements for this project were boldly defined from the beginning: the construction should be fast, cost effective and changeable over time, which prompted the studio to use prefabricated elements and to leave parts of the project undefined, assuming the immediacy, flexibility and resources optimization as core themes.
Project name
1000 m² Prefabricated
Architecture firm
SUMMARY
Location
Vale de Cambra, Portugal
Photography
Fernando Guerra | FG+SG
Principal architect
Samuel Gonçalves
Design team
Inês Vieira Rodrigues (project manager), Gonçalo Vaz de Carvalho, Maria João Freitas
Environmental & MEP engineering
Material
Concrete, glass, steel
Typology
Residential › Apartments
The Quito-based architect and designer Aquiles Jarrín has recently completed A Forest apartment, an intervention in an apartment of the 70s in the historical center of Quito, Ecuador.
Project description by architect:
The intervention was carried out in a modern apartment of the 70s, located...
Saro Gallery, designed by Iranian architects Mehdi Qanavati and Amin Qorbani, is a showroom space with an area of 35 m², located in the port city of Mahshahr in Iran.
Project description by architect:
The elementary process of formation: The reconstruction of a half-finished shop and turning i...
Inspired by the beauty of free-flowing curves, Stiletto House is a fusion of sculpture and building, a blending of form and function to create living spaces that inspire. It embraces traditional concepts of tropical architecture while reinterpreting them in contemporary forms. It explores what a house could be like for an avid collector of antiques...
Project name
Stiletto House
Architecture firm
EHKA Studio
Location
50 Jalan Seaview, Singapore
Photography
Studio Periphery
Design team
Hsu Hsia Pin, Eunice Khoo, Amoz Boon
Collaborators
Consultants : E-Lume Pte Limited
Structural engineer
DWB CS-Engineering Consultants
Construction
Poh Sia Construction and Engineering
Typology
Residential › House
The León-based architecture firm Taller5 Arquitectos has recently completed Casa LL a single family home that is located in León, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Project description by architect:
Located within an upward steep slope and considering a wide program of necessities, the project required a dia...
The Egyptian architecture student Sara Mostafa Omran has designed Four stars hotel for Maspero,Cairo, Egypt by using simple geometric shapes.
Project description by Student:
The design is based on finding solutions using simple geometric shapes, creating spaces for different activities with o...
