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Bureau de Change enlivens Trace apartment block with pink waste-based panels

January 13, 2026 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Bureau de Change has updated a 1980s apartment block in London, revitalising its facade with pink concrete panels made from demolition waste. Named Trace, the building in Euston was revamped for developer HGG to provide five apartments across its six storeys, which include two floors added as part of the project. Bureau de Change

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HCCH Studio creates doughnut-shaped pavilion on Chinese mountain

January 13, 2026 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio HCCH has designed a doughnut-shaped viewpoint and pavilion in Huizhou, China, featuring oval openings and a concrete facade with a bamboo texture. Located on Mount Luofu, the site occupies a platform that extends from a sharp turn of the highway and was previously used as a buffer zone and parking area. Named Resting

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Terracotta tones define community centre in Finland by Nervin Architecture

January 9, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

A terracotta-toned palette of concrete, brickwork and tiles nods to Lappeenranta’s distinctive 1980s civic architecture at Sammontalo, a mixed-use community building in Finland by local studio Nervin Architecture. Located in Lappeenranta’s Sammonlahti neighbourhood, the 12,000-square-metre complex brings together childcare facilities, a school, a public library and sports and youth spaces under one roof. Sammontalo replaces

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Tropical hardwood and reinforced concrete form House in Minami-Azabu

January 6, 2026 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Keiji Ashizawa saw the planning process as “solving a puzzle” when creating this house in central Tokyo, which features wooden louvres for privacy. Designed for a couple and their three children, the three-storey House in Minami-Azabu – named after the neighbourhood in which it’s located – sits next to a residential street on its

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PPAA utilises “subtractive design” for concrete house in Los Angeles

December 26, 2025 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican studio PPAA has created a blocky concrete house on a narrow site in Los Angeles, California, USA, carving out courtyards and voids into the form. Known as Mar Vista, the 4,488-square-foot (417-square-metre) house is a practice in what the studio called “subtractive design”, a way of reframing the site’s restrictions and opportunities. “The project

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Concrete columns frame open living spaces of Indian home by Taliesyn

December 26, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Steeply pitched tiled roofs perched on concrete columns shelter the breezy interiors of House by the Grove, a weekend retreat on the outskirts of Bengaluru designed by Indian architecture studio Taliesyn. Located alongside a grove of trees near the town of Magadi, the 5,433-square-foot (505-square-metre) dwelling was completed for a family of three to be

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Pezo von Ellrichshausen organises pink concrete Lima House around pool

December 15, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

Rooms are organised around a swimming pool in this pigmented concrete house, designed by architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen on farmland in central Chile. Pezo von Ellrichshausen, the studio led by Yungay-based architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, designed the single-storey Lima House for a retired couple in a valley near the town of

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Sordo Madaleno divides Valle de Bravo house across six concrete pavilions

December 8, 2025 Amy Frearson 0

A row of red concrete pavilions forms Rancho del Bosque, a vacation residence designed by architecture studio Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos amidst a pine forest in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Rancho del Bosque, or “forest ranch”, comprises six structures arranged in a neat row along a hillside, each with a distinct function. Mexico City-based Sordo Madaleno

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Arquitectura-G organises minimalist Spanish house around central courtyard

December 2, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish studio Arquitectura-G has completed Patio House, a minimalist white home in Costa Brava that opens onto a central courtyard through folding timber shutters. Partially sunken into a sloping site overlooking the small bay of Aiguablava, the single-storey home was designed by Arquitectura-G to have a “simple and clear” geometry, defined by a slim concrete

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Toro Arquitectos designs ring-shaped Ciales Kindergarten in Puerto Rico

December 1, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

An outdoor play area sits at the heart of this ring-shaped concrete kindergarten in Puerto Rico, designed by local studio Toro Arquitectos to create “a safe, engaging, and functional environment” for children. Ciales Kindergarten replaces a former funeral home, which was transformed by Toro Arquitectos and extended with a circular structure alongside it. The “unremarkable”

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