Reviving Station neighborhood in Vilnius, Raugykla street, a former deprived warehouse today is transformed into an apartment building with an architects’ studio on the ground floor. The project became an instance of how the low-value architecture may be transformed and inspire the process of revitalizing the street.
Architecture studio BCW Collective has perched an aluminium-clad bivouac shelter for hikers above an Alpine valley in northwest Italy. The shelter, called Bivacco Brédy, is located in the Aosta Valley and was conceived as a memorial by the family of Claudio Brédy, a local politician and Alpinist who died during a mountain excursion in 2017.
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US furniture brand Emeco has worked with architect David Saik to convert an old sewing factory in Los Angeles into a multipurpose hub and “conversation place” with a cactus growing from the ground indoors. Located on the outskirts of a residential neighbourhood in Venice Beach, California, the Emeco House has an exhibition and event space
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diestro began documenting kiev’s striking new buildings prior to the war erupting in ukraine. today, his photographs show the country in a hopeful light.
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The customer, being an art collector who collects modern sculpture, in particular, wanted to have a house combined with a gallery. He bought a plot of land in the picturesque southern suburb of Kyiv on the banks of the canal, where he first laid out a small landscape park with a traditional-style guesthouse. However, for a long time, he could not make a final decision regarding his main house. Having started building a 2-story house, he stopped halfway realizing that their project couldn’t meet all their needs.
Ethical investment company To.org has enlisted architecture studios Hassell and LocalWorks to create a music centre that will uncover talent in the Bidi Bidi refugee camp in Uganda. Due to break ground in April 2022, the Bidi Bidi Music & Arts Centre will provide a platform for gifted artists based in the huge settlement, which is home
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The built environment destined for everyone is still, to this day, not envisioned by everyone. Last year on Women’s day, we stated that “the battle for equality is far from over”. Highlighting continuously women architects and gender-related topics, this year, ArchDaily is turning the tables and seeking guidance from our audience. We highly value our reader’s opinions, and now more than ever, we are seeking your input, to reach more realms and shed light on unfamiliar female figures to the international scene.
The early 20th century saw the birth of Modernist architecture. It brought with it a central architectural movement that in turn birthed off-shoots of its own. A figure often seen as the defining face of this movement is Le Corbusier, whose 1923 treatise Toward an Architecture was influential to his Modernist contemporaries – a manifesto including the phrase “a house is a machine for living in” where good architecture would have to be intrinsically linked to function and the demands of industry.
Norwegian Bathhouse. Modern in a traditional way. The bathhouse looks like a traditional Norwegian small boathouse with red-painted cladding, tin roofs and rest on granite columns into the water. This is the first impression – especially when coming from the road at the back – where the building seems closed and modest. At the same time as it blends well into the cultural-historical diversity, it gives an assumptions about a twist. If you look closer, you notice that several of the cladding boards are angled. They close the building towards the back and open it towards the front. When you enter, you experience the purpose – you are sheltered at the same time as you have a view of the entire sea.
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