Dezeen’s top five houses of the month for January include an “unyielding” travertine-clad holiday home on the Danish coast and a fluted concrete villa built into a Spanish hillside. Also featured in this roundup is a house with clustered red-brick volumes overlooking the River Thames and a cube-shaped holiday home in Chile with an expansive rotated
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Local practice NAAW Studio has converted a former Soviet railway workers’ housing block into the Fika restaurant in Almaty, Kazakhstan, retaining original features of 1950s building. According to NAAW Studio, the restaurant re-examines the TurkSib Workers’ House’s social context by contrasting the original ornamentation with playful, contemporary details informed by Almaty’s surroundings. “We wanted to ensure
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Dutch firm UNStudio has unveiled the design for the Seoul Twin Eye spokeless Ferris wheel in Seoul, which will consist of an intersecting double-ring structure on top of a cultural complex. Designed in collaboration with Arup and Heerim Architects, the 180-metre-high Ferris wheel will be built alongside the city’s World Cup Stadium along the Han
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Chinese studio Linehouse has refurbished the Central World shopping centre in Bangkok, Thailand, introducing a double-layered facade punctured by arches. According to Linehouse, the revamped facade and seven floors of retail space depart from typical shopping centres by drawing from the history of the site and creating opportunities for “peace in the chaos”. “The design
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In this lookbook, we feature nine residential projects that demonstrate unique ways of interacting with a site’s history by weaving existing ruins into their designs. Until recently, it has been common practice to hide away old structures during adaptive reuse projects. However, the architects in this list embrace the past by stitching domestic spaces with
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British studio Tikari Works has completed an outbuilding for a south London residence that is framed by a latticed timber roof structure and configured to weave around a Lebanese cedar tree. Tikari Works crafted the project, named A Room Around a Tree, to have a minimal impact on the woodland setting while accommodating a versatile
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British studio Coffey Architects has completed Cobham Bowers, a later-living housing community in Surrey designed to create ” a seamless blend between personal and communal living”. Developed in association with retirement housing specialist Pegasus, the scheme consists of two gabled residential blocks arranged around a low-lying communal pavilion and flint-walled central garden. “The design and
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Dutch studio MVRDV has released visuals for a neighbourhood in Zwolle, the Netherlands, which will centre around a converted warehouse topped with wooden apartments. MVRDV will complete four mixed-use buildings for the 120,000-metre-square development, named WärtZ, with the ambition of creating a “second city centre” south of Zwolle railway station, it said. “I think it is
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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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Japanese studio Kooo Architects has completed a collection of hotel cottages in China that draw on the local vernacular to integrate into the surrounding village. Named Ningshan LuZhai Cottages, the hotel was designed to appear like a series of cottages alongside terraced farmland at the foot of a small mountain in Yuwancun, Ankang City. Spanning
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