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Álvaro Siza steps orange-hued concrete home into sloped site in Barcelona

October 3, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed Colien House, a three-storey concrete home embedded into a hill that overlooks a beach in Barcelona. Made from orange-tinted exposed concrete, Siza designed each floor in the house with an outdoor terrace to extend the internal spaces and provide a connection with the surrounding sloped terrain and nearby sea. “The

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Donaldson + Partners creates arched house “for the twenty-first century”

October 1, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

California-based studio Donaldson + Partners has designed a circular house partially embedded in the landscape with large concrete parabolic arches in Montecito, California. Seven years in the making, the 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) house is sunken into a four-acre lot between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, outside Santa Barbara. Robin Donaldson, founder

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Dezeen Debate features a student centre hailed as “eccentrically energetic in and out”

October 1, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features the Student Pavilion at the University of Melbourne by US studio KoningEizenberg. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. US studio KoningEizenberg wrapped the Student Pavilion in a series of external concrete stairs and terraces. Readers praised the project, with one calling it “rich, layered, and eccentrically energetic

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Gold aluminium shutters create “defensive” facade for Portuguese housing block

September 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Bureau des Mésarchitecture has completed an apartment block in Leiria, Portugal, wrapped in concrete and gold aluminium shutters. Situated on a corner site where the old and new neighbourhoods of Leiria meet, the block of five apartments is connected to an existing, yellow-painted 20th century house, which was renovated and converted into two

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University of Melbourne Student Pavilion by KoningEizenberg is “like a big treehouse”

September 26, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

An external concrete stair with terraces connects the floors of the Student Pavilion at the University of Melbourne, designed by US studio KoningEizenberg. The 2,508-square-metre centre has a variety of dining, work, events and meeting spaces where students can “study and linger” throughout the day to help combat social isolation. It forms part of a wider

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Max Núñez Arquitectos creates concrete care home in Chile

September 18, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio Max Núñez Arquitectos designed this concrete care home in Chile with open interiors to reduce maintenance, create a dialogue with a park and build a sense of community for the elderly inhabitants. Set in a suburb of northern Santiago, Max Núñez Arquitectos created four multi-storey concrete buildings oriented around a pavilion-like structure with

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Zuzana & Nicholas transforms Brisbane cottage into own home and studio

September 14, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

The founders of Australian studio Zuzana & Nicholas have used a “robust palette” of stone, concrete and steel to transform a former workers’ cottage in Brisbane into their own studio and house. Located in the Red Hill neighbourhood, the cottage was originally designed in the Queenslander style that defines much of Brisbane’s suburbs – a

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Archipelago converts brutalist post office in Belgium into learning centre

September 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local architecture studio Archipelago has transformed a former brutalist post office in Belgium into a learning centre, stripping it back to reveal its “spacious, generous and luminous” interiors. Located in Louvain-la-Neuve, the building was renovated for the Centre d’enseignement supérieur en Brabant wallon (CPFB), an education centre linked to the University of Louvain that focuses

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Wooden louvres create “subtle seclusion” at Tokyo house by Keiji Ashizawa Design

September 5, 2024 Cajsa Carlson 0

Japanese architect Keiji Ashizawa referenced louvres on townhouses in Kyoto when designing the concrete House in Aoyama, which is intended to foster a sense of privacy. Located in Tokyo’s central Aoyama area, the home is designed for a family with a child and two dogs. House in Aoyama’s location at a busy intersection led Keiji

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Rørbæk og Møller Arkitekter unveils curved concrete church in Roskilde

September 4, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture studio Rørbæk og Møller Arkitekter has completed the concrete Trekroner Church on the outskirts of Roskilde, Denmark. Located in the growing suburb of Trekronor, the church was designed to combine a contemporary, organic form with more traditional ideals. It was built as a multifunctional space that could function “both as a church and a

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