Harnessing Materiality: Farm House outside of Mumbai by The Vrindavan Project.Located in the rural town Thane, just outside of the bustling Mumbai, Farm House by The Vrindavan Project is not just your ordinary contemporary Indian home. It is a place with strong ambitions towards sustainability. The rural home places...
BD House by Space Encounters with Studio Vincent van Leeuwen.New owners of this 1950s villa in Bergen, the Netherlands, had chosen to live in the home for a few weeks before its demolition. This happened to give them a new perspective on their plans to knock down and rebuild, leading towards a...
Like a Picnic Rug Under a Canopy: House for BEES by Downie North.Shared values of connectedness, place-making and passive design lead the client to Downie North, a Sydney-based architecture studio of Catherine Downie and Daniel North, partners in life and work. Tasked to create a new addition to their...
A Moment of Zen: Grove House by Clayton Orszaczky.A yearning for the past and excitement for the future manifests a lovely outcome in Clayton Orszaczky’s Grove House in Sydney’s Woollahra. The building was once attached with a questionable extension that functioned much like a...
Recurring Circular Shapes: Rotherfield Street by Atelier Baulier.Atelier Baulier has remodelled and extended the lower-ground floor flat of an early Victorian house in North-East London, increasing the size of the kitchen and creating a living space directly opening onto the garden. The floor plan is...
Simplifying & Restoring: The Cambium by Carr.With a focus on simplifying rather than adding, restoring rather than replacing, Carr’s design approach for The Cambium, a business retreat set on a four-acre property in Mornington Peninsula, celebrates the existing. The resulting...
Social Micro-complex: Popped Orange Uhub House by Wutopia Lab.Wutopia Lab has completed a new vertical social micro-complex located in the T.I.T Creative Park in Guangzhou, China. With an orange facade and a light tower at its centre the 177-square-metre building houses a cafe, bar, theatre and...
Ballen House in Retiro, Colombia by LCLA office with Clara Arango.Oslo-Based architecture studio LCLA Office and architect Clara Arango have collaborated on Ballen House, an Andes Mountain retreat in Colombia that blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior and, by extension, between architecture...
Modern Vernacular: Villa Bôrik in Žilina, Slovakia by Plural.Situated in a landscape saturated in shades of green and dotted with picturesque gable-like houses, Plural has established a bespoke three-storey family home in the serene environment. Peaceful in presence yet unmissable in form, Villa...
