Skylights, an internal light well and silver-painted ceilings pull light deep into House in Shichiku, a home in Kyoto designed by local studio Tato Architects. Designed for a couple and their cat, the home occupies an overlooked plot at the end of a small alley, on a site once occupied by the client’s childhood home.…
US studio Lehrer Architects has completed Loma Verde, a supportive housing development for once-homeless residents that features a slender footprint and stucco walls adorned with splashes of colour. Located in the city’s Filipinotown neighbourhood, the Loma Verde project was built on a tight lot that formerly held a single-family home. Lehrer Architects has completed a…
In the ongoing battle over a renovation of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the administration of US president Donald Trump has said it may have to demolish the Edward Durell Stone-designed building and replace it with an amphitheatre. This week, a Justice Department attorney filed a civil action stating the administration may seek to…
German architecture studio Opposite Office has created a one-square-metre treehouse to work from, fixed to a tree at the Bauhaus University campus in Weimar. Opposite Office designed the compact tree-bound structure, named Baumhaus Office, in response to high office rental prices in Munich, Germany, where the studio was previously based. Baumhaus Office is a one-square-metre architecture…
British studio Foster + Partners, in collaboration with academic institutions, has secured funding to develop an automated fleet of robots and drones for on-site timber construction. Named SWIFT-Build, which stands for Swarm-based Inverted Fabrication for Timber Buildings, the proposal won a €4 million, three-year research grant from the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder funding programme. The…
Architecture practice Nodecraft Studio has created a farmhouse on the outskirts of Bengaluru from a cluster of poured-earth walls and concrete volumes linked by verandahs. Nodecraft Studio designed the 279-square-metre weekend retreat, named Aalok Farmhouse, to be a holiday home as well as a space for hosting the clients’ business meetings. Indian architecture practice Nodecraft Studio…
Traditional farmhouses often have thick stone walls that block the view of the natural vistas that surround them. Below, we’ve gathered six examples of modern interventions that instead open up historic homes to make the most of their setting. Among the projects featured are renovations of vernacular stone houses set among Italian vineyards, in Portugal’s…
Developer Riksbyggen and creative agency BBDO Nordics have designed three flats based on what a 25-year-old can afford to buy in Sweden today, with the smallest micro home measuring just 1.9 square metres. The sizes of the three apartments were based on Riksbyggen’s square metre index, which calculates how many square metres of housing a…
Architecture studio Pearce+ has added a wildlife tower for bats, owls, kestrels, invertebrates and wetland species at Honeygar Farm in Somerset, UK. Built almost entirely from reclaimed materials found on the farm, the wildlife tower forms part of a wider plan to restore a wetland habitat on the Somerset Levels. Pearce+ designed a wildlife town…
Ecuadorian studio Caá Porá Arquitectura has worked with the local community to construct a pavilion in the Amazon rainforest that allows researchers to get a new perspective of the landscape in Pacto Sumaco, Ecuador. Known as the WildSumaco Research Pavilion, the facility was commissioned by Francis Marion University to expand the American institution’s research operations…