gelareh house grows outward into the orchard On the outskirts of Tehran, a weekend villa by Iranian architect Firouz Firouz has been expanded into a permanent home by ZAV Architects. The owners enlarged the property by acquiring three neighboring orchard plots, giving the locally-based studio room to extend the 200-square-meter house while preserving its…
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in West Africa MoMA Through January 2, 2027 In Act II of the long-running Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, a group of missionaries, uniformly white American The post West African modernist architecture goes under the microscope at MoMA appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Tato Architects / Yo Shimada builds House in Musashi-Koyama House in Musashi-koyama by Tato Architects / Yo Shimada is a home for a family of four on a flag-shaped lot measuring less than 40 sqm in a dense residential district of Tokyo. Facing a large park to the north, the site was created by…
INTRO Columbus, a 186-unit student housing development near Ohio State University, topped out on September 8. The building is the tallest mass timber student housing project in the U.S. at The post DLR Group–designed mass timber student housing project nears completion in Ohio appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
one straw system does it all in ltl architects’ residence LTL Architects completes the All Straw House in New York, a prototype residence developed with Guy Nordenson and Associates and Princeton University that turns highly compacted straw boards into a structural building system. Prefabricated over two months at Princeton’s Architecture Lab, the house is…
Architecture studio Grimshaw has released plans for a reimagined entry plaza for Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, transforming parking lots into transport infrastructure and walkways. Grimshaw’s plans for the redesign of the entryway mark both the city’s commitment to the Boring Company’s series of underground car tunnels and the move away from parking in the…
Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect by Brian D. Goldstein | Princeton University Press | $40 James Max Bond, Jr. was, and is, larger than life. The post Excerpt from <em>Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect</em> by Brian D. Goldstein appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
A new book from designer Adam Nathaniel Furman and Dezeen contributor Kate Mazade spotlights the most radical examples of colourful architecture from across history. Here, the authors pick six favourites. Published by RIBA Publishing, Chromatic Architecture explores colour as an intrinsic element of architecture, rather than just decoration. Across 34 examples, the book shows how…
Timber shutters and the canopies of two large trees shade the interiors of House Beyond the Mango Trees, a home in Kerala by Indian practice InLe Architects. InLe Architects founder Afiz Ubaid described the existing trees on the site in Kannur as its “biggest opportunity”, providing shade and filtered sunlight while also buffering noise from a…
Hotelier Not A Hotel has revealed its latest guesthouse will take the form of a human-sized Pokémon Poké Ball, nestled beside a lake in Hokkaido, Japan. Set to be built in Tomakomai City, the Poké Ball-Themed Hotel will feature a three-metre-diameter spherical guest room shaped like the balls used to catch and store wild creatures…