Armadale Residence in Melbourne, Australia by b.e architecture.Armadale Residence is a stone paradox. This three-storey home in Melbourne has a rough, scale-like exterior skin made from 260 tonnes of bubbled dove grey granite ā but even so, thereās still a resounding cloud-like softness to the...
Minimalist London Home Extension by Nicholas Szczepaniak Architects.Positioned along the Regents Canal in Islington, this London property has been reinvented as a contemporary, energy efficient and spatially generous three-storey abode....
Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
110 Rooms: MAIO Architects’ Jaw-Dropping Apartment Building in Barcelona.Some projects just make you sit up straight in your chair, stop whatever else you were trying to do at the time, and pay close attention. This is exactly what happened when I first came across this residential building in Barcelona...
#YellowtraceTravels: Katamama Bali.The 1.5 million special Indonesian bricks that make up Katamama all seem to converge at the entrance. The arrival feels as though it was designed to literally pull you into a mini textural vortex. But of course, these are no ordinary...
Stage of Forest: Ski Pavilion at Songhua Lake Resort of Jilin, China by META-Project.Designed by Beijing-based META-Project, this mountainside structure looks like a villainās secluded lair in a James Bond film. Its purpose in reality, however, is a lot less foreboding. Peering over the icy Songhua Lake from a...
The MaoHaus in Beijing, China by AntiStatics Architecture.AntiStatics Architecture seem to have made concrete billow and wave in the breeze of central Beijing. The material-defying feat is an experimental faƧadeāone that looks a lot more like the rolling fabric of a featherweight tent than...
Bricks Decoded: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Breeze Block.In Brazil, itās known as CobogĆ³. In India, they call it Jaalis. The French term is Brise-soleil. Here we know it as Breeze Block. Call them what you will, these little units of awesome are making a massive comeback. Back in the 50s...
Liquid Pavilion by DepA for The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal.DepA has completed a mirrored pavilion set on the grounds of a cultural institution Serralves, Portugal, originally designed by Ćlvaro Siza in the...
