Lizzie Crook

Guilherme Machado Vaz designs geometric white house as “abstract sculpture”

February 1, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Architect Guilherme Machado Vaz has completed the geometric House in Afife, in Portugal, which appears as a solid volume when its shutters are closed. The white house is modelled on the “regular and compact” houses that are dotted throughout the rural parish in the north of the country. However, to prevent it from being dominated by an adjacent

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Espen Surnevik elevates pair of treetop cabins on stilts in Norwegian forest

January 31, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

PAN Treetop Cabins by Espen Surnevik in Norway

Oslo-based architect Espen Surnevik has nestled the PAN Treetop Cabins on slender stilts among the treetops of Finnskogen, a woodland in east Norway. The PAN Treetop Cabins were commissioned by a couple that wanted to create a tourist retreat in “the real Norwegian wilderness”. Both matching cabins are elevated on black metal structures, with black cladding designed by Surnevik for

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Yalin Mimarlik completes Museum of Troy in Turkey

January 30, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Yalin Mimarlik has completed a weathering steel-clad archaeological museum in northwest Turkey, which is dedicated to the history of the city of Troy. Located 800 metres from the site of the ancient city, the orange-coloured museum was designed by Turkish architecture studio Yalin Mimarlik to resemble an “excavated artefact”. It takes the form of a cube clad in weathering steel

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Final design of MVRDV’s KoolKiel complex will be determined by the community

January 29, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

MVRDV has released visuals of KoolKiel, a mixed-use complex in Kiel, Germany, which will have its final form determined in consultation with the community. The commission winning proposal by MVRDV for the post-industrial site at tip of the Kiel Fjord will be adapted as the design is finalised. There are range of eventual options with additional balconies, varied

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Chris Collaris and i29 complete Tiny Holiday Home in the Netherlands

January 25, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Tiny Holiday Home by i29 and Chris Collaris

Tiny Holiday Home is a compact black house by i29 and Chris Collaris, which is designed to stand out like a minimalist sculpture within a nature reserve in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Dutch studios i29 and Chris Collaris designed the house to be spatially efficient, while having a strong identity that would set it apart from its surroundings. It is divided

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Chimney-shaped galleries protrude from Exploratorium museum by Bernard Tschumi

January 24, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

The Exploratorium by Bernard Tschumi Architects

Bernard Tschumi Architects has completed the Exploratorium museum in China, which has giant industrial chimney-shaped exhibition spaces protruding from its perforated copper coloured exterior. Due to open in Autumn of this year, the 33,000 square meter museum is located in Tianjin, and is designed by Bernard Tschumi Architects to showcase the port city’s industrial past.

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Studio Bark builds off-grid Black Barn in Suffolk meadow

January 23, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Black Barn by Studio Bark in Suffolk, England

Studio Bark has embedded an off-grid home, which has a tapered roofline that opens out to a glazed gable end with views over a meadow, in Suffolk, England. Named Black Barn, the two-storey house is characterised by its charred cedar-clad first floor, which Studio Bark designed to reference local agricultural buildings. The off-grid house, which is fully powered by

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Spinn Arkitekter completes wooden hiking cabin on Norwegian mountain

January 23, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

A wooden cabin with a prefabricated honeycomb-like structure, called Varden, has opened on Storfjellet mountain in Norway. Spinn Arkitekter designed the shelter, which exists to encourage hiking in the mountains surrounding the town of Hammerfest, for the Norwegian Trekking Association. It has an “organic” prefabricated framework, developed in collaboration with Form Engineers to echo its rugged arctic setting, while

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Kuryłowicz&Associates reveals design for golden Antarctic research centre

January 22, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Henry Arctowski Antarctic Station by Kuryłowicz&Associates

The Henry Arctowski Antarctic Station, a prefabricated research centre with golden-coloured metal cladding, is set to be built on King George Island in Antarctica. Located in the South Shetland Archipelago, the research centre for the Polish Academy of Science has been designed by Kuryłowicz&Associates to accommodate up to 29 scientists studying the polar region. The prefabricated structure has been

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CODA Bespoke designs pair of neighbouring black houses for twin brothers

January 18, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Twin-build house by Nik and Jon Daughtry in Sheffield

CODA Bespoke has created a pair of matching black houses in Sheffield, England, for graphic designer twins Nik and Jon Daughtry. Sheffield-based CODA Bespoke collaborated with the Daughtrys to create the two neighbouring houses, called Twin-build, that share an aesthetic. Located on the site of an old corn mill, alongside the the millpond that used to drive it, the matching homes are

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