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AIM Architecture transforms oil silos in China into community park

June 16, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio AIM Architecture has transformed a series of former oil silos in Changzhou into Cotton Park, a mixed-use community space surrounded by a public garden and play areas. Shanghai-based AIM Architecture was tasked with transforming the hollow silos into a cluster of spaces for the local community to gather and host events. The four

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Agricultural sheds inform metal home in Taiwan by Studio Tngtetshiu

June 3, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

The “anonymous” metal buildings found in rural Taiwan were a visual reference for Double Roof House, which local practice Studio Tngtetshiu has created in Tainan. Double Roof House comprises a home, warehouse and playground, located alongside a red-brick church previously renovated by Studio Tngtetshiu. To contrast the solidity of the church, the studio used a steel-framed

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Tabitha Isobel gives London townhouse a “surprising and bold” makeover

May 28, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Designer Tabitha Organ combined natural materials with metal details to transform this London townhouse into a home with a “slightly futuristic” feel for a client who loves entertaining. The five-storey property on St Pauls Road had recently been renovated by a developer using poor-quality finishes, so the client – a young tech entrepreneur and first-time

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Fletcher Crane Architects completes pale brick home overlooking Richmond Park

April 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

UK studio Fletcher Crane Architects has completed Kingston Villa in Richmond, London, offering a contemporary “evolution” of the area’s typical suburban architecture in pale brick and metal. Tasked with turning a dilapidated bungalow on the edge of Richmond Park into a new family home, the Surrey-based studio drew on its neighbouring buildings to create a

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Sam Crawford Architects creates red-roofed community pavilion in Sydney

March 23, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

An angular roof wrapped in translucent red-mesh panels crowns this Y-shaped pavilion in Sydney, designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects. Located on the disused lawn of a bowls club in Hurlstone Memorial Reserve, the timber-clad structure is designed as a flexible community centre with uninterrupted connections to the surrounding park. The pavilion hosts a multipurpose

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Albert Frey’s all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs

March 22, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. After “languishing for decades” in upstate New York, the house has been relocated to Palm Springs, California, where the museum plans to showcase and preserve

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Studio Octopi adds mint-green extension to Georgian house in London

March 21, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

Architecture practice Studio Octopi has added a rear extension clad in mint-green metal to The Saddlery, a Georgian house in southeast London. Wedged between a pub and a row of Georgian homes in Lewisham, the dwelling has been extended to create an additional entertaining space and a secondary entrance. Studio Octopi’s design uses the extension to

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Studio VARA designs Sonoma County house to stand up to wildfires

March 18, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Local firm Studio VARA has completed Fire Country Lookout, a rural retreat in northern California that is wrapped in a protective shell made of standing-seam metal and is equipped to operate off the grid. Located near the town of Healdsburg in Sonoma County, the house sits on a hilltop dotted with oak trees. A long,

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Traditional cabins inform mountain retreat in the Ukrainian Carpathians

March 16, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Lviv studios Sanina Arch Club and Gubar Architects used a “combination of modern and local traditions” for Krasnyk House, a holiday cabin in the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine. Krasnyk House’s form mimics the typical architecture of the Hutsuls – an ethnic group from the mountains of western Ukraine – and blends it with contemporary materials

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Boyd Architects creates monolithic-metal forms for South Carolina residence

March 7, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

US studio Boyd Architects has wrapped a house in standing seam metal and pine boards and articulated each form with a vernacular hip roof in Summerville, South Carolina. Based in Charleston, Boyd Architects completed the 3,611-square foot (335-square metre) Summerville House in 2023, as a “process of form-making”. “This inspiration for the project was the

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