Rheanna Hopkins, Author at 【Free Download Architectural Cad Drawings】

“The architect’s sprezzatura is showing” says commenter

October 18, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a visitor centre hidden within a 100-year-old Greek vineyard. Architecture practice K-studio buried the visitor centre in the stepped stone terraces of the vineyard, which is located on the Greek island of Samos. The project, called Liknon, was created for drinks company Metaxa and includes a sequence of

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Austin Maynard Architects adds five gardens to Melbourne terrace house

October 5, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

An “urban farm” rooftop garden, planted terraces and a fish-pond atrium characterise this renovated house in Melbourne, designed by Austin Maynard Architects. Named Helvetia, the Victorian terrace house located in the inner-city suburb of Fitzroy, was renovated with a focus on retaining and reusing materials while providing new spaces for nature. The studio told Dezeen that

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“Enlightened by subtle openings” says commenter

September 27, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a concrete multi-generational home in India and debating news that construction has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia. Designed by Chicago-based studio Adrian Smith + Gill Gordon Architecture, the Jeddah Tower is planned to reach a height of 1,000 metres, which would make it the world’s

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“I wonder if it will age well” asks commenter

September 20, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a house in the Hamptons by Diller Scofidio + Renfro with a sloping fibreglass roof and a glass facade. The home, which was recently photographed by Iwan Baan, was completed in 2017 for Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit founder Julie Taubman and her husband, Robert Taubman. “A

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Andblack Design Studio creates “permanently impermanent” events space in India

September 5, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Ahmedabad-based Andblack Design Studio has created a demountable events space in India, named Darwin Bucky, which was informed by the work of American architect Buckminster Fuller. The space was designed by Andblack Design Studio to be used as an exhibition gallery, town hall or performance space for up to 100 people. Intended to be easily assembled and dismantled in a

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Álvaro Siza designs tiled mural for Space Copenhagen’s Porto restaurant interior

April 23, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

A ceramic mural by Álvaro Siza is at the heart of this rustic restaurant interior in Porto, Portugal, designed by Space Copenhagen. Located in a renovated 16th-century building in Porto’s Largo de São Domingos area, the Cozinha das Flores restaurant features a mural designed by the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Portuguese architect. “Whilst Siza has created many pieces of

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Amsterdam apartment block features cupboard bedrooms

March 23, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Dutch design studio Blom Interieurs has created playful interiors with cupboard bedrooms for Shift Architecture Urbanism’s Domūs Houthaven residential complex in Amsterdam. The complex, which contains 235 compact rental apartments, was created to provide high-density living, utilising space and materials effectively. Each apartment contains a bedroom cupboard with built-in shelves and under-bed drawers. The sleeping

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MarshKeene submerges London house extension to create single-level home

February 8, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Architecture studio MarshKeene has refurbished and extended an end-of-terrace Victorian townhouse in Nunhead, south London, with a unifying brick plinth wall. The studio resolved the original building’s disconnected, multi-level layout by excavating the site to create a single-level, semi-submerged rear extension that contains the kitchen and dining area. “We partially submerged the extension into the garden

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