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Álvaro Siza expands his Serralves Museum in Porto with angular gallery

February 26, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has expanded the Serralves Museum in Porto, which he completed in 1999, with an angular extension housing some of his archival works. Named the Álvaro Siza Wing, the three-storey extension has a geometric shape that branches out from the existing museum and slots in between the trees in Serralves Park. The Álvaro

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“Fried-egg” canopy tops Sunny Side Up extension by THISS Studio

February 20, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Architecture practice THISS Studio has reconfigured the dark interior of an interwar house in east London, adding an extension characterised by timber joinery and a curved aluminium roof. Designed to have “a fun and unconventional presence”, the extension was conceived by THISS Studio as though it were a piece of furniture rather than a conventional

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RSHP designs tapered museum extension to house Bayeux Tapestry in Normandy

February 6, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

British studio RSHP has unveiled plans to overhaul the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy, France, adding an extension to exhibit the 70-metre-long, historic tapestry. RSHP’s design will involve restoring the existing 17th-century museum and extending it to better display the embroidered cloth that depicts the lead-up to William I’s conquest of England in 1066. The

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ConForm Architects models green-terrazzo flat extension on bay windows

January 27, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

Green terrazzo is teamed with concrete and clay-toned plaster at Terzetto, a London flat extension that architecture studio ConForm Architects has modelled on bay windows. Located in a conservation area in Hampstead, the sunken rear extension opens up the existing flat, ridding it of its low ceilings and dark interiors, while reorienting its living spaces towards

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Daniel Canda adds “suspended glass box” to 1980s residence in Argentina

January 26, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio Daniel Canda & Asociados has renovated a 1980s country club residence in Argentina, opening up the interior and wrapping the second floor in ribbon windows. Located in the Los Cardales suburbs outside of Buenos Aires, Cabin 192 was originally built by architect Horacio Iovine in the early 1980s. Faced between updating an

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Juan Alberto Andrade adds workspace onto multifamily housing in Ecuador

January 19, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Ecuadorian architect Juan Alberto Andrade has completed an extension to a multifamily housing complex with rammed earth walls in Guayaquil. Known as El Retiro, the nine-square metre (97-square foot) addition doubles the common space of a 305-square metre (3,282-square foot) residential complex, protruding into the front setback along the street and blurring the line between

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Moroccan riads inform London extension by Merrett Houmøller Architects and All & Nxthing

January 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Clay-plaster walls, exposed brickwork and tile floors aim to evoke a feeling of a traditional Moroccan home at this London house, overhauled by local studios Merrett Houmøller Architects and All & Nxthing. Merrett Houmøller Architects and interior designer All & Nxthing renovated and extended the Victorian home for clients who have travelled extensively to Morocco

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Deep-finned colonnade frames London home extension by Will Gamble Architects

January 11, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

British studio Will Gamble Architects has completed an extension and refurbishment to a family home in Croydon, London, defined by a contemporary colonnade spanning across the rear facade. Designed for a growing family with a desire to improve their home’s versatility, Will Gamble Architects sought to preserve elements of the existing architecture while delineating a

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Delve Architects transforms “cramped” London house with cork extension

January 6, 2024 Nyima Murry 0

London studio Delve Architects has transformed a Victorian house in Camberwell with a cork-clad extension that introduces a bright open-plan kitchen and dining space for entertaining. Appropriately named Camberwell Cork House, the 20-square-metre extension project replaces an existing kitchen and back room that the studio said was “cramped and dark”. “The kitchen was small, cramped

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25:8 Architecture + Urban Design adds “bird wing” extension to Ottawa house

December 28, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Canadian studio 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design has added a cedar-clad extension with a shape informed by birds in flight to a house in Ottawa. Named Ferndale Flightdeck, the 400-square foot (37-square metre) extension holds a recreation room, yoga studio, home office and a rooftop observation deck that allows the owners to watch birds in

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