Katie Last

COA Arquitectura adds “earth-toned” home to Mexican forest

November 26, 2023 Katie Last 0

Blocky forms and triangular cutouts intersect to form Casa Cielo, a monolithic house that Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has added to a forest in Jalisco. Nestled among trees on the triangular site, the Mexican home is coated in textural, earth-toned plaster and punctured by angular openings, balconies, and semi-outdoor spaces. “Our aim was to create

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John Ellway staggers series of indoor-outdoor spaces at Cascade House

November 24, 2023 Katie Last 0

Australian architect John Ellway has renovated an early 20th-century cottage in Queensland into an open family home intended to encourage indoor-outdoor living. Named Cascade House, the residence in Paddington required minimal renovations but was overhauled by Ellway to create more playful spaces for the family’s three children. It has been updated with a staggered interior

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Reclaimed materials form “playful and textured” facade of Sydney house

November 7, 2023 Katie Last 0

A staggered arrangement of windows and patterned sections of brickwork form the facade of 19 Waterloo Street, a house that Australian studio SJB has added to a small site in Sydney. The building, which also contains a shop and self-contained flat, was designed by SJB to replace a damaged structure on the compact site in the

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Restored historic paintings cover walls of converted Frescohallen restaurant

November 6, 2023 Katie Last 0

Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has converted a listed room in Norway into a restaurant, adding an angular mirrored bar and restoring the building’s historical frescoes. Designed to highlight the history of the building, Frescohallen restaurant was added to the former Norwegian Stock Exchange in Bergen, replacing a rundown food hall that previously occupied the

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Stacks of reclaimed slate form facade of The Garden Retreat

October 29, 2023 Katie Last 0

Reclaimed materials were used to create this garden studio, which London practice The Environmental Design Studio has added to a compact site in Cambridge, England. Named The Garden Retreat, the studio is just 15 square metres in size and nestles into a small site in the back garden of a Victorian terrace. “I wanted to

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Hawkins\Brown complete transformation of historic Central Foundation Boys’ School

October 27, 2023 Katie Last 0

Old and new buildings wrap around a stepped courtyard in this central London school, which has been sensitively renovated by architecture studio Hawkins\Brown. Founded in 1866, the Central Foundation Boys’ School features a selection of historic buildings, such as a chapel that the studio converted into arts-focused teaching spaces. Prior to the renovation, the facilities

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Office ParkScheerbarth adds bright red-timber building to compact Berlin site

October 24, 2023 Katie Last 0

Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. Located in Holzmarkt 25, a former lumber port that has been developed into a cultural district, the building features a timber structure and bright red-painted larch cladding that

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Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL designs Japanese house to be “one big cat tree”

October 16, 2023 Katie Last 0

Architect Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL designed A Cat Tree House as a home in Kamakura, Japan, for his family and cats. Located an hour outside of central Tokyo, the home was designed by Architecture studio Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL’s founder to be a comfortable space for his cats with an interior arrangement that takes cues from climbable, cat trees. “The

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Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL designs Japanese house to be “one big cat tree”

October 16, 2023 Katie Last 0

Architect Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL designed A Cat Tree House as a home in Kamakura, Japan, for his family and cats. Located an hour outside of central Tokyo, the home was designed by Architecture studio Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL’s founder to be a comfortable space for his cats with an interior arrangement that takes cues from climbable, cat trees. “The

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Digital House is an aluminium-clad micro home in Germany

October 8, 2023 Katie Last 0

German designers Julian Krüger and Benjamin Kemper have created Digital House, a micro home that can be built without using nails or screws and was designed to be easy to disassemble. Added to a narrow site in a forest in north Germany, Digital House was constructed from recycled aluminium and timber and can be assembled

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