Jane Englefield

Vaulted tunnel runs through brick house by Batay-Csorba Architects

April 16, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Canadian studio Batay-Csorba Architects has carved a barrel-vaulted tunnel through a brick home in Toronto designed to evoke the architecture of ancient Rome. Named High Park Residence, the new-build home has two storeys and a basement and was designed for homeowners with Italian heritage. The ground and first floors exist within a barrel-vaulted archway that

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SO-IL builds Las Americas affordable housing development in Mexico

April 15, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

New York firm SO-IL has completed this low rise yet high-density affordable housing development in León, Mexico, with apartments arranged around courtyards. The project, called Las Americas, is a six-storey concrete block of homes divided into 60 apartments. Maximising the plot’s buildable footprint, the homes hug two interior courtyards that provide cross ventilation to the development.

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Safdie Architects to expand Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

April 13, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Safdie Architects Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Safdie Architects is set to double the size of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas with a design that includes two new galleries connected by a bridge. The architecture firm, which has its headquarters in Boston, will return to build an extension for the museum that it designed a decade ago. Construction will

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Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego photograph colourful Soviet architecture across Central Asia

April 4, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

The State Academic Russian Theatre in Kazakhstan

Mosaics and murals feature in this photography series of Soviet-era architecture from Central Asia by photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego. The duo’s Soviet Asia series documents architecture constructed between the 1950s and 1991 in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The Soviet Union, or USSR, was a Russian socialist state that

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Dallas photographer Nikola Olic finds poetry in architecture

April 1, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Skyscrapers tucked behind tower-blocks and nature imitating architecture are themes in Nikola Olic’s urban photography series, which he describes as a collection of “individual poems”. Dallas-based photographer Nikola Olic has curated Structure Photography, an online collection of 88 digital photographs he took of architecture from cities across America, as well as Europe and Asia. Each

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Mighty Buildings plans neighbourhood of 3D-printed homes for California

March 31, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Construction technology company Mighty Buildings has announced plans to build 15 homes using prefabricated 3D-printed panels in Rancho Mirage, California. The project is a collaboration between California-based Mighty Buildings and developers Palari Group. Construction will begin at the end of this year with the homes set to be finished by Spring 2022. Once complete, Mighty

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MoMA curators pick five highlights from Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America

March 30, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America is showing at MoMA

The co-curators of a MoMA exhibition that confronts how America’s built environment plays a key role in anti-Black racism share five of their standout projects from the show. Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America features work from Black architects, designers and artists in mediums including film, sculpture and photography at multiple scales. The exhibition was

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Landry Smith Architect builds wooden bungalow overlooking Oregon river

March 29, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Wood takes centre stage in this riverside dwelling in Oregon by American office Landry Smith Architect, complete with black cedar siding and an interior made from white oak boards. The Divine House is a bungalow located outside of the city of Eugene, sitting just above water-level and overlooking a bend in the McKenzie River. Named

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Mario García Torres curates design exhibition in Mexico City house

March 26, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Artist Mario García Torres has curated a new exhibition of ambiguous objects by designers including Hector Esrawe in a house in Mexico City. The exhibition is presented by Masa gallery. Named The Last Tenant, it is showing at Palmas 1145, a small white house about which little historical information is known. “The house felt like

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Marc Thorpe designs virtual house with vaulted concrete arches

March 25, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

American designer Marc Thorpe has unveiled a concept for a concrete house with vaulted archways and tree-filled gardens for a riverbank in Georgia. Named House of Four Gardens, the work is a set of 3D renderings created in collaboration with architectural visualisation studio Truetopia. Thorpe imagines the project suiting the waterways on the outskirts of Savannah,

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