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03-08-2020

ORA and a house inside a ruin

The young designers from the architecture firm, ORA based in Znojmo, Czech Republic, completed a house inside the remains of an old building in Zadní Arnoštov, a village in the Moravia region. A project for the grand architecture that respects its layers of history without creating a historical fake.

20-07-2020

The Shuyang Art Gallery by UAD a showcase for traditional calligraphy

The Architectural Design & Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD) has designed an art gallery which focuses on traditional Chinese calligraphy in Shuyang, China, the birthplace of this art. The striking materiality of this architecture is set off by the three fundamental colours of Chinese calligraphy - black, white and red.

10-07-2020

Mecanoo’s brick homes in Manchester

A brick building completes a major urban renewal project in Manchester’s Hulme quarter

25-05-2020

ADEPT at Carlsberg City, Copenhagen

The Danish architecture studio, ADEPT has helped to transform the Carlsberg City district in Copenhagen. They worked their magic on Theodora House, a contemporary, mixed-use building complex that is part new construction and part reuse and all with the typical brick of this historic district.

30-04-2020

Blee Halligan Architects from barn to B&B: Five Acre barn in Suffolk

Blee Halligan Architects designed a home with a B&B in a five-acre wood near Aldeburgh, in Suffolk on the east coast of England, transforming an existing structure and built a new B&B with five bedrooms overlooking a landscaped garden. The new construction has an unusual undulating roof that adds dynamism to the interiors of the rooms. The project has won a number of important RIBA awards.

20-04-2020

LUO Studio, a community centre in Yuanheguan

The architects from LUO Studio have completed a new community centre in the village of Yuanheguan, in China’s Hubei province, using the abandoned foundations and concrete columns of a residential project. Design in the name of architectural and urban recovery.

20-03-2020

Renovated timber, brick and laminated bamboo home in Beijing

A Siheyuan is a traditional Chinese home renovated by restoring the existing parts using local materials along with modern additions that add value to its classic style.

05-03-2020

San Sa Village by IlLab Architects, a tribute to the senses and to regional culture

San Sa Village is a hotel complex north of Beijing, not far from the Great Wall of China. The project by llLab Architects - on a site that used to be occupied by a petrol station - was conceived as a kind of village-style group of buildings made from local slate and brick.