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Everyday Studio reinterprets farmhouse style with monochrome palette

July 21, 2022 James Brillon 0

Simple forms inspired by nearby Canadian agricultural buildings meet a contemporary, monochrome palette in this remote home by Everyday Studio. The low-slung house is located in a clearing surrounded by thick forests in Manotick, a small community outside of Ottawa. The project is called T-House, based on the shape of its layout. “The design is

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Zhengzhou Grand Theatre’s sail-like forms reference a “majestic ship”

July 11, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

State-owned Chinese firm The Architectural Design and Research Institute of HIT has completed a theatre in Henan Province with a metal-clad exterior informed by the sails and hulls of ships. The Zhengzhou Grand Theatre contains a 1,687-seat theatre, 884-seat concert hall and an opera rehearsal hall, alongside a multifunctional hall and rehearsal spaces. Treated as

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Tung Jai Ork Baab stacks shipping containers to create holiday home in Thailand

March 22, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

A cluster of shipping containers sheltered by a steep metal roof defines a series of indoor and outdoor spaces at this home in Thailand, designed by architecture studio Tung Jai Ork Baab. The Container Cabin is part of a wider project by the studio called OOST Campville, transforming a former paddy field on a floodplain

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LOHA designs Granville1500 student housing in Los Angeles

March 19, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

Three sculptural, metal-clad volumes form a student housing complex by American studio LOHA that is designed to look less bulky than a typical apartment building. The project, Granville1500, occupies a block-long property in Los Angeles, near the city of Santa Monica. It is named after its address, 1500 South Granville Avenue. Located within a car-centric

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Denton Corker Marshall designs metal-clad cube for Shepparton Art Museum in Australia

February 25, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Image of the art museum from the roadside

Architecture practice Denton Corker Marshall has completed an art museum in Victoria, Australia, with a cubic glass form shielded by large metal-clad plates on its facades. Won by the local practice via an architectural competition in 2017, the new 5,300-square-metre Shepparton Art Museum sits overlooking a lake at the edge of a nearby nature reserve.

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Reddymade and Ai Weiwei add hexagonal extension to Salt Point home

August 11, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Salt Point Residence by Reddymade and Ai Weiwei

Architecture studio Reddymade has collaborated with Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei to design a corrugated metal extension with hexagonal ends for a weekend home in Salt Point, New York. The local studio drew on the hexagonal plan of the original 1980s home to create the minimal, linear form of Salt Point Residence, with 185

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Grimshaw designs sculptural metal enclosure for HS2 ventilation shaft

August 26, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

A decorative roof and curved weathered-steel wall will enclose the Amersham Vent Shaft that Grimshaw has designed for the High Speed Two railway. Built within a road junction in the town of Amersham, England, the cylindrical headhouse will become one of the only visible elements of the rail line’s 10-mile-long tunnel through the Chilterns countryside.

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Blank metal facade of Tokyo home hides tree-planted courtyard

March 9, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Apollo Architects & Associates has designed the austere metal-clad exterior of this compact home to disguise a central planted courtyard covered by exposed wooden rafters. Leaf House is located in a quiet residential neighbourhood in Tokyo where its owners also run a dentistry clinic. Its name refers to the visual similarity of the roof rafters

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Prison clad in perforated weathering steel has pastel-coloured sports court

December 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Minimum security prison in Nanterre by Local Architecture Network LAN

Local Architecture Network has built a minimum security prison with a perforated metal facade of weathering steel in Nanterre that has a sports court in pastel hues. The minimum security prison is also the headquarters of the Penitentiary Services for Integration and Probation (SPIP) – which monitors those under arrest. Local Architecture Network (LAN) built

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Hidden corridor connects different parts of Dutch homestead by Mecanoo

November 19, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Villa Vught with hidden corridor by Mecanoo

A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school near in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo. Called Villa Vught, the complex draws on the traditional Dutch hoeve, or homestead, with buildings arranged around a central open space. The functions of Villa Vught have been split between

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