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Marta Nowicka swaps a garage for a three-bedroom house in east London

November 25, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

Designer Marta Nowicka has built a three-storey house on the site of a former garage in London’s Dalston, featuring walls clad in cedar shingles. The Gouse – a combination of the words house and garage – stands on a site that Nowicka bought online “without even seeing it”. The plot measured just 45 square metres,

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The Green Miracle is a Berlin flat featuring colour-block cabinetry and an indoor swing

November 25, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Sage-green storage closets and a swing seat are among the quirky details in this renovated 19th-century apartment in Berlin, designed by local studio Club Marginal Architekten. The Green Miracle is located in the city’s buzzing Schöneberg district, in a residential block built in 1899. The 90-square-metre flat had been an empty shell for years, but has

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The Cube / dmvA Architecten

November 25, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

The Forum building is the heart of the campus. The campus lacked a decisive image towards its surroundings, as a counterpart to Kortrijk Xpo. At the same time, the campus is defined, but not physically closed off from its environment. This results in an approachable and accessible campus for pedestrians. The aim of the development of the site is to increase the accessibility between Xpo and Campus, to expand the dynamics of the school to the street side and to integrate the campus in its surroundings.

ikawaya architects’ seven gardens house is arranged in a checkered pattern

November 25, 2018 macnadusa 0

ikawaya architects has arranged the interior units and courtyards of the seven gardens house in a checkered pattern throughout the site, designing the two at the same time and with equal importance. one of this year’s g-mark japan good design award winners, the project expands the possibilities of urban housing in a quiet residential area […]

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How To Improve Acoustic Comfort with Perforated Cardboard Plasterboards

November 25, 2018 Materials 0

There are many ways to solve the acoustic comfort of the interior spaces we design, using materials and solutions of different prices and appearances. Perforated cardboard gypsum boards are an economical and efficient option to incorporate into projects, absorbing the sound and reducing the noise level generated by the reverberation through different patterns and shapes.

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Apartment LC / Bogdan Ciocodeică Studio

November 25, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

The main axis of the center of Bucharest, stretching from North to the South of the city, between the two World Wars underwent its most important architectural development. The existing 19th century urban tissue, with its boulevards, parks, impressive palaces and villas, all very much alike the European high class neighborhoods, was redefined, extended and brought into the 20th century with exceptional modernist housing buildings of all scales and sizes, from family villas to large apartment buildings. Many of the architectural landmarks of 21st century city are from this era and they still strongly influence the architecture of the contemporary collective housing scene. However, compared to the new buildings, the original 1930’s buildings still seem to be more sophisticated, mainly probably due to their patina, charm and uniqueness. One such building houses an apartment that was in need of a renovation project.