Architect Kristijan Markoc has created a downloadable template for a “deliberately modest”, two-bedroom timber home designed to be adapted to any site. Named Plana House, the replicable home design has a compact, 42-square-metre plan and is composed of a simple, pitched-roof structure that can be constructed using readily-available materials. The home was designed by Markoc,…
UK studio Hudson Architects has converted a disused commercial building in Norfolk into a public library, wrapping its existing concrete structure in a skin of cement shingles. Named King’s Lynn Library, the project adapted the neglected structure of a former nightclub, car park and retail store into a more central home for the local library,…
Mint-green metal signals the transformation of this former industrial shed in the Czech Republic into Šmeral Art Factory, carried out by local architecture studio KOGAA. The exhibition and events space occupies a small shed within the complex of the still-operating Šmeral machinery factories in Brno. It is the first intervention carried out as part of a plan…
Yesterday, the United States’ highest court said that the construction on the above-ground elements of the White House ballroom extension can continue. The Supreme Court lifted the temporary ban that was put on construction by a lower court judge in April, responding to a lawsuit by preservationists including the non-profit organisation National Trust for Historic…
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has designed the Woma mixed-use building in Miami‘s Wynwood neighbourhood with a central plaza and a facade broken up into colour-blocked sections. Developed by Uribe Schwarzkopf, a firm behind several recent high-profile Quito buildings, Woma will have 163 residences in Wynwood, a former industrial district now known for its murals and…
A tilted facade with large glazed openings was designed to bring an adjacent forest “directly into the interior” of this home in the Czech Republic by Prague-based Papundekl Architects. Located in a South Bohemian village, the single-storey home is contained within a modular timber structure, which has been topped by a mono-pitch roof and clad with…
A stone house embedded into the Greek landscape and a sprawling American home with a retractable roof are among the most popular houses featured on Dezeen this month. Also included in our monthly roundup of our readers’ favourite residences is a white cube built inside existing brick walls and a timber home with tree-like columns.…
Grassy rooftops and PE rattan facades characterise Split Mass Residence in Indonesia, which local firm K-Thengono Design Studio designed with multi-level social spaces for the family to gather. Located on a corner plot in Tangerang, the home‘s tiered, sloping garden roofs connect indoor living spaces with the planted outdoor setting. Rattan facades cloak Split Mass…
Portuguese studio António Costa Lima Arquitectos has completed Praia do Bom Sucesso, a block of three homes in Lisbon with an industrial-feeling structure of exposed brickwork and weathered steel. Located close to the northern bank of the Tagus river, the new block was tucked behind the retained facade of an old warehouse, in an area…
As Burning Man kicks off its 40th-anniversary event in Nevada, we rounded up the work of 12 architecture studios featured at the festival over the years, including BIG and Arthur Mamou-Mani. Larry Harvey and Jerry James put on the first Burning Man Festival in 1986 as a solstice ritual. At the time, it consisted of…