White lime-rendered walls frame Casa Amona, a two-storey home and studio in Mexico, designed by local architecture studio Colar to support multi-generational living. Perched beside a wooded hillside in San Cristóbal de las Casas, the 155-square-metre residence contains a one-bedroom house that can be adapted into a two-bed, alongside a studio and a guest bedroom.…
Kifisia Apartment: A reconfiguration of domestic boundaries Georgios Apostolopoulos Architects’ renovation of this 1970s apartment in Kifisia, Athens, begins with subtraction. All internal partitions are removed to reveal the apartment’s spatial potential and expose the existing structure. The project questions the conventional role of room-making in domestic space. Instead of rebuilding walls, the apartment…
DAP Studio builds Debris pavilion in Tehran DEBRIS by DAP Studio examines Tehran’s ongoing cycle of demolition and reconstruction through the material of construction waste. The project was developed as an architectural competition proposal and was not ultimately constructed. Conceived as a pavilion assembled primarily from materials salvaged from demolished buildings, it places debris…
Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has designed the Pine House holiday home with a cross-shaped plan that stretches into its forested site in southern Sweden. Perched on a north-facing slope on the Hallandsåsen ridge, the 152-square-metre home was completed by Johan Sundberg Arkitektur in close collaboration with the clients. It contains a three-bedroom summer house…
A zigzagging red facade and rooftop running track are among the key features of Jihlava Municipal Arena, completed by architecture studio Chybik + Kristof in the Czech Republic. Located in the heart of Jihlava, the 5,650-seat building was designed for a local ice hockey team, but will also serve as a “cultural and civic hub”…
the house learned how to hide movement Most houses have a room whose only purpose is to get you somewhere else. Most of us are so used to the idea of the hallway that it’s hard to imagine it was ever novel. Yet for much of architectural history, especially in large European villas, movement…
Superstudio designed 12 impossible ways of living In 1971, Superstudio imagined twelve cities designed to solve the problems of human existence and came up with solutions so complete that there was barely any life left to live. A person wakes up in a five-cubit cell. The temperature is permanently set at 25°C. The humidity…
Indents and slices across an offset gabled volume bring natural light into this beach house in Queens, New York, by Brooklyn-based BAAO Studio. The 2,655-square-foot (247-square-metre) residence is located within a beachfront co-op in Breezy Point – a neighbourhood at the western end of the Rockaway Peninsula, which juts out into New York’s Lower Bay.…
Raw Metal and Pale Blue Accents Give Mellow Cafe Its Identity Mellow Cafe is an unbuilt interior concept for a compact takeaway coffee shop in Mulhouse, France. Developed by Wrong Door Studio, the project explores how a small commercial footprint can become a distinctive hospitality experience through a clear spatial strategy, expressive materials, and…
Visitors to this woodland cabin in East Sussex enter via a planted roof terrace, which its architect, British studio Built Works, has “devoted entirely to the ritual of bathing”. Nestled in woodland in East Sussex, the blocky Bather’s Cabin is sheathed in layers of blackened larch and topped by a lush rooftop fitted with a…