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Voll Arkitekter’s Mjøstårnet “helped wooden architecture reach new heights”

March 28, 2023 Alice Finney 0

Next in our Timber Revolution series is a profile of Mjøstårnet, an 85.4-metre-high tower in Brumunddal, Norway, that was one of the world’s first true timber skyscrapers. The 18-storey mixed-use building was named world’s tallest timber building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) when it was completed in March 2019, comfortably

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Faceted panels wrap Line Hotel and Serif building in San Francisco

March 27, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Cladding made of glass-fibre-reinforced concrete wraps the exterior of a sculptural, mixed-used building that was designed by US firm Handel Architects for a crowded, triangular site. The 12-storey building houses The Line Hotel and a residential portion called Serif, along with commercial space on the ground level. It sits on a triangular block in San

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Fran Silvestre Arquitectos creates minimalist home behind historic facade in Spain

March 27, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Sparse and minimalist interiors define this home in Valencia, Spain, by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, which sits behind the historic frontage of a large 20th-century residential building. Called The Empty House, the four-bedroom dwelling was designed to be a “blank canvas” for its owners, with plain interiors that starkly contrast the traditional shell of the existing

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SDA completes flood-resilient concrete house in Vietnam

March 26, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio SDA has completed the Floating House, a concrete-framed home on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City that is elevated above ground to mitigate the impacts of flooding. The home occupies a verdant site in the Thu Duc district that is often flooded by a nearby river, requiring Vietnamese studio SDA to elevate

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LBR&A creates dramatic cantilever for CH73 House in Mexico City

March 24, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture studio LBR&A has designed a residence that “breaks the imposed paradigms of construction” in a Mexico City neighbourhood where development has reportedly taken its toll on the landscape. The CH73 House is located in the Bosques de las Lomas neighbourhood and occupies a long, slender site that slopes down toward a ravine. Designed for

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Dezeen Debate features “robust and luxurious” brick-clad townhouses

March 23, 2023 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a row of townhouses by The DHaus Company featuring brick-clad arches. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Architecture studio The DHaus Company has finished a row of brick-clad townhouses within the Dartmouth Park Conservation Area in north London called The Arches. The homes, which replace a derelict petrol

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L’ALZINA Residential Complex / Jaime Prous Architects

March 23, 2023 Valeria Silva 0

On a dense pine forest gently sloping down to a landscape of meadows and lakes, this complex of twenty-three homes is proposed. The aim is to hide under the thick shade of the pines and go unnoticed with slow, local, and surprising architecture.

Amsterdam apartment block features cupboard bedrooms

March 23, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

Dutch design studio Blom Interieurs has created playful interiors with cupboard bedrooms for Shift Architecture Urbanism’s Domūs Houthaven residential complex in Amsterdam. The complex, which contains 235 compact rental apartments, was created to provide high-density living, utilising space and materials effectively. Each apartment contains a bedroom cupboard with built-in shelves and under-bed drawers. The sleeping

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Dalston Works demonstrated that “timber is a viable alternative to concrete and steel at scale”

March 23, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Up next in our Timber Revolution series we look at the Dalston Works apartment complex in London by Waugh Thistleton Architects, which is the world’s largest cross-laminated timber building. Completed in 2017, Dalston Works is a 10-storey residential development in east London that contains 121 apartments with balconies as well as two ground-level courtyards, retail and

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Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor adds colour to 1980s Stockholm apartment

March 23, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

An all-lilac kitchen and bright geometric storage solutions feature in this colourful Stockholm apartment renovation by local studio Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor. The two-bedroom apartment, which is housed within a 1980s prefabricated concrete building in southern Stockholm, was transformed by the architecture studio for a family with four-year-old twins. As part of the renovation, Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor

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