James Parkes

DepA Architects clads traditional Portuguese house in sage-green tiles

April 16, 2021 James Parkes 0

The front of Alto Mearim House by depA Architects

Porto-based DepA Architects has extended and renovated a traditional Portuguese home, streamlining its floor plan and adding a material and colour palette informed by its original design. The studio renovated the home, located in the northern district of Porto, to better make use of its over-compartmentalised floor plan and added a new extension at the

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UNStudio bisects St Petersburg office with zigzagging atrium

April 16, 2021 James Parkes 0

Dutch architecture firm UNStudio has revealed its design for an office in St Petersburg, Russia, which will contain an atrium that rises diagonally through the building. UNStudio designed the large office building on the St Petersburg waterfront overlooking the Gulf of Finland for Czech software company JetBrains. The office will be built alongside JetBrains’two existing buildings

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Dominique Perrault and Zhubo Design reveal plans for 700-metre-long university building in Shenzhen

April 15, 2021 James Parkes 0

Shenzhen Institute of Design and Innovation by Dominique Perrault Architects and Zhubo Design

French studio Dominique Perrault Architecture and local architect Zhubo Design are set to design a university campus with a 700-metre-long building for the Shenzhen Institute of Design and Innovation. Set to be built in a valley at the base of Phoenix Mountain, Dominique Perrault Architects and Zhubo Design’s campus will contain academic buildings, public squares, gardens, sheltered promenades

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Disused railway yard in Milan set to become park and Olympic athletes’ village

April 14, 2021 James Parkes 0

Architecture studios Diller Scofidio + Renfro, PLP Architecture and Carlo Ratti Associati have revealed plans to convert a goods yard in Milan into a park and the athletes’ village for the upcoming Winter Olympic Games. Located in the Porta Romana neighbourhood in the southeast area of Milan, the scheme will see Diller Scofidio + Renfro, PLP

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DF_DC hides Swiss apartment block behind Pisa Baptistery-informed concrete wall

April 9, 2021 James Parkes 0

Architecture studio DF_DC has designed a concrete apartment block overlooking Lake Lugano in the south of Switzerland that has a concrete exoskeleton so that the interior spaces are “free to change over time”. Named after its street, Via Carona 6 contains 14 private-rental apartments that are shielded from the road by a concrete wall that was informed

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Austin Maynard Architects wraps self-powered Garden House in white shingles

April 6, 2021 James Parkes 0

Australian studio Austin Maynard Architects has designed a multi-volume, family home in Melbourne that produces its own energy and has a white-shingled facade. Named Garden House, the home on a narrow residential street in the inner-city suburb of Prahran, Melbourne, replaces an existing single-fronted cottage. Austin Maynard Architects designed a sustainable four-bedroom family home that is

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Architecture Discipline wraps New Delhi office in “protective armour”

April 1, 2021 James Parkes 0

Indian studio Architecture Discipline has renovated an office in New Dehli to create an inward-facing headquarters for Rug Republic that is wrapped in a weathering-steel shell. Created in response to the “hostile” local environment, the three-storey building was wrapped in a banded Corten-steel shell to protect it. “It has been designed as a protective armour offering very

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Apollo Architects & Associates creates multi-generational home with walled-in garden

March 31, 2021 James Parkes 0

Apollo Architects & Associates has designed a family home with a walled-in garden that houses two generations under one roof and aims to blend indoor and outdoor living. Tokyo-based architecture studio Apollo Architects & Associates replaced an existing home in Japan’s Kanto region with a two-storey building designed to emphasise the connection between the interior

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Vo Trong Nghia Architects wraps Bat Trang House in perforated ceramic brick facade

March 26, 2021 James Parkes 0

Vo Trong Nghia Architects has designed a layered home encased in a perforated ceramic wall with a series of elevated gardens that function as a natural cooling system. Located in the pottery village of Bat Trang in Vietnam, Vo Trong Nghia Architects (VTN Architects) designed the five-storey Bat Trang House to represent the pottery and

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Jun Aoki & Associates wraps Louis Vuitton’s Tokyo store in “poetic yet playful” pearlescent facade

March 25, 2021 James Parkes 0

Japanese studio Jun Aoki & Associates has created a distinctive flagship store for Louis Vuitton in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district with an undulating facade and interiors by architect Peter Marino. Replacing the brand’s previous store, which has occupied the same corner since 1981, the seven-storey Louis Vuitton Ginza Namiki store is wrapped in a water-like facade.

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