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Building Beyond Borders uses stone and earth to build Women’s House Ouled Merzoug

April 24, 2020 India Block 0
Women's House Ouled Merzoug nby Building Beyond Borders

Architecture students collaborated with a women’s group in Morocco to design and build a community centre out of stone and earth in the village of Ouled Merzoug. Two volumes of granite and adobe brick sit at the intersection of two shortcuts, one leading to the village centre and the other to its schools. Called Women’s

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Elisabeth Polzella creates structural-stone covered market in Lamure-Sur-Azergues

April 22, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Lamure-Sur-Azergues covered market by Elisabeth Polzella

French architect Elisabeth Polzella has built a covered market from structural stone and timber for the town of Lamure-Sur-Azergues in the Rhône region of central France. Built alongside Lamure-Sur-Azergues’ town hall, the open-sided building is designed to host the weekly market and to be a gathering place for the people of the town. The simple market

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Featherstone Young divides rural Stonecrop house into two distinct wings

March 26, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Stonecrop by Featherstone Young in Wing, Rutland, UK

Sloping green roofs top the two distinct wings of Stonecrop, a British house designed by Featherstone Young to be adaptable and energy efficient. Located in a designated conservation area in Rutland, the dwelling has a principle wing dedicated to everyday use, and a smaller second wing with three bedrooms for visitors. It was designed by

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Featherstone Young divides rural Stonecrop house into two distinct wings

March 26, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Stonecrop by Featherstone Young in Wing, Rutland, UK

Sloping green roofs top the two distinct wings of Stonecrop, a British house designed by Featherstone Young to be adaptable and energy efficient. Located in a designated conservation area in Rutland, the dwelling has a principle wing dedicated to everyday use, and a smaller second wing with three bedrooms for visitors. It was designed by

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OMA wraps glass public walkway around Galleria department store in Gwanggyo

March 25, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Galleria department store in Gwanggyo, South Korea by OMA

Dutch architecture studio OMA has completed the Galleria department store in Gwanggyo, South Korea, with a stone facade that has a multifaceted-glass passage cut into it. Built in the town of Gwanggyo, south the capital Seoul, the Galleria department store has been designed to be a landmark for the area’s housing district. The cube-shaped building

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Lorenzo Guzzini builds stone house with infinity pool overlooking Lake Como

March 21, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Villa Molli by Lorenzo Guzzini in Italy

Italian architect Lorenzo Guzzini has completed a villa overlooking Lake Como in Italy, with a facade of grey moraine stone and an infinity pool. The house, called Villa Molli, is built into a gentle slope in the town of Sala Comacina. Its two tower-like forms and stepped living spaces required minimal excavation. Lorenzo Guzzini positioned

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Rippling robot-carved stone facade defines urban winery by Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect

March 19, 2020 India Block 0

Carl Fredrik Svenstedt Architect has designed a curving facade carved out of sandstone by a robot for the Delas Frères Winery in France’s Rhône Valley. The winery and wine shop were built next to a historic Manor House, which is one of the many vineyards that cover the terraced hillsides above in Tain l’Hermitage that

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This Writer’s Studio Was Designed As A Place Of Solitude

March 18, 2020 Erin 0

Architect Eric J. Smith has designed a small writer’s studio that’s located in Connecticut and is home to a 1,700 volume collection of poetry. The studio is a place where its owner can write and read poetry as well as escape from aspects of modern life. It can also be used to meditate among tall […]

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New Stone Age exhibition demonstrates material’s “potential to revolutionise construction”

March 18, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
New Stone Age exhibition

New Stone Age at London’s Building Centre shows the potential of stone as a modern construction material. Curator Steve Webb picks five projects from the exhibition that use it in innovative, practical and sustainable ways. The exhibition demonstrates how stone can be used as a structural material to create contemporary buildings. “We want to show

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Groupwork designs 30-storey stone skyscraper

March 10, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Stone skyscraper by Amin Taha's studio Groupwork and Webb Yates

Amin Taha’s architecture studio Groupwork has collaborated with structural engineer Webb Yates to design a conceptual 30-storey stone office block that would be cheaper and more sustainable than concrete or steel equivalents. Groupwork and Webb Yates designed the skyscraper to investigate how the cost and sustainability impact of a tall building with a stone structure compared

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