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Chinese kindergarten designed as “small town” of flexible classrooms

October 2, 2023 Katie Last 0

Winding balconies and outdoor learning spaces feature in Kindergarten of Museum Forest, a curvy building that Chinese studio Atelier Apeiron has added to an existing nursery in Shenzhen. Aiming to challenge typical kindergarten architecture, Atelier Apeiron designed the building to resemble a town, adding a planting around its edges to evoke a small forest. “Children

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Cuartopiso and Barragán Arquitectos wrap Mexican apartment building in planted balconies

June 28, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Cuartopiso and Barragán Arquitectos have completed an all-electric, twelve-unit apartment complex with wide balconies overlooking the street in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. Local agency Cuartopiso partnered with Barragán Arquitectos, a Mexico City-based studio founded by the nephew of Mexican architect Luis Barragán, to build Hacienda Santa Bárbara 107, which measures 978 square metres (10,527 square

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Eight airy terraces and balconies that become extensions of the interior

May 21, 2023 James Parkes 0

From a plant-enclosed terrace in Mexico to a large rooftop garden set beneath a metal pergola in Tokyo, Dezeen’s latest lookbook highlights eight interiors with impressive balconies and terraces. Each of these balconies and terraces is accessed via glazed walls or floor-to-ceiling glass and provides their homes with not only a physical but also a

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Atelier Gratia designs angular concrete courtyard house in Taiwan

March 22, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

An angular wall of exposed concrete informed by origami wraps this courtyard home in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, designed by local studio Atelier Gratia to be a “sanctuary” from the surrounding city. Called Star House after the street on which it sits in a dense urban area, the four-storey home has been turned inwards, with a series

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BIG reveals pair of “simple prismatic” skyscrapers in Shenzhen

February 14, 2023 Christina Yao 0

Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled the Qianhai Prisma Towers in Shenzhen, China, both comprised of leaning volumes tapering towards the sky. Set to be built on either side of the Shenzhen Hong Kong Plaza, a cultural development designed by Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto known as the “green belt”, the skyscrapers will be 300-metres and

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Studioninedots completes stepped social housing overlooking Amsterdam waterfront

January 14, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A sweeping form of stepped balconies that overlook the IJ waterfront defines the De Jakoba social housing in Amsterdam, designed by local practice Studioninedots. The block of 135 apartments forms part of a wider residential development for the Overhoeks neighbourhood, which sits on the opposite side of the harbour to the city’s central station. Far

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Angular balconies provide views of the Black Sea at Starh’s EOS building

December 22, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local studio Starh has completed an office and apartment building on a triangular plot in the Bulgarian city of Varna, featuring cantilevered balconies that extend out towards the nearby sea. Situated to the east of the city centre, the EOS building is only separated from the Black Sea by the Sea Garden public park, ensuring the

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BIG completes Quito’s tallest building with pixelated facade

December 7, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

A facade of cascading balconies defines the residential Iqon skyscraper near La Carolina park in Quito, which is Danish architecture studio BIG’s first completed project in South America. The 32-storey high-rise, now the tallest in the Ecuadorian capital, comprises 220 apartments alongside a mix of commercial and office spaces designed for developer Uribe Schwarzkopf. The

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Johan Sundberg Arkitektur designs “accessible yet exceptional” housing blocks in Sweden

November 23, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Swedish practice Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has completed a cluster of timber-clad housing blocks in Ystad, Sweden, with facades of folding glass screens that allow their balconies to be turned into sheltered winter gardens. Called Hygrometern, the cluster of four blocks provides a mixture of 20 two and three-bedroom mid-budget apartments on a sloping site overlooking

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Planted balconies surround Stories housing in Amsterdam by Olaf Gipser Architects

October 19, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Dutch studio Olaf Gipser Architects has worked with housing cooperative BSH20A to create an apartment block in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which aims to provide residents with a “communal, sustainable and healthy urban living” environment. Named Stories, the 47-metre-high tower contains 29 apartments and communal living spaces that overlook the harbour at the former industrial district

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