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House on a Hill / vvv

March 30, 2021 Paula Pintos 0

The plot is located on the edge of the village, along a ridge path overlooking the “Eau d’Heure” valley. It is set along a not very dense, but nevertheless very well laid out street. The new house that is built seeks to maintain a privileged relationship with the landscape that will give the rooms all their qualities. The lengthwise layout from the street is in line with the slope and oriented on the course of the sun. From the street, it leaves a wide view of the landscape open.

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Trama Arquitetos creates raw concrete house above cork tree grove in Braga

March 30, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Cork Trees House with concrete roof

Portuguese architecture studio Trama Arquitetos has created Cork Trees House, a concrete and Corten-steel clad home located on a slope above a grove of cork trees in Braga, Portugal. The single-level house was built on a plot of land set above the centuries-old trees and Trama Arquitetos aimed for its design to connect with this

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Klein Dytham Architecture creates colourful two-tone bedrooms for Tokyo’s Toggle Hotel

March 30, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Toggle Hotel in Suidobashi, Tokyo, by Klein Dytham Architecture

Klein Dytham Architecture has designed a hotel in central Tokyo with a series of colourful, two-tone bedrooms and a Pantone colour of the year exterior. Built on a tight urban site in the city’s Suidobashi district, the hotel was designed to provide accommodation for both business and leisure guests, which gives it its name – Toggle Hotel. “The

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Recyclable opera pavilion to be made from champagne corks and oyster shells

March 30, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
A single-storey garden pavilion

BakerBrown Studio has designed a garden pavilion for the Glyndebourne opera house in England that will use the venue’s discarded champagne corks and seafood shells as building materials. The single-storey Glyndebourne Croquet Pavilion will overlook the South Downs from a small plot on a croquet lawn between existing yew hedges in the house’s grounds. Local

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Moca House / CASTILLO + VALDIVIESO arquitectos

March 30, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

A canvas characterized by its rough texture, which arises from the aesthetic configuration created by the concrete block masonry. It is the skin of this house that seeks the balance between the material, the spatiality it contains and the ornament it exhibits. The work distributes its program in three levels, the first being composed of the garage area and the main access, the second of the social area, while the third level corresponds to the resting area with three bedrooms. The spatial organization is aimed at minimizing the impact on the terrain, taking advantage of the ascending sloping topography, which is manifested with a front facade of three levels and a rear of only two.