Katie Last

Hawkins\Brown completes transformation of historic Central Foundation Boys’ School

October 27, 2023 Katie Last 0

Old and new buildings wrap around a stepped courtyard in this central London school, which has been sensitively renovated by architecture studio Hawkins\Brown. Founded in 1866, the Central Foundation Boys’ School features a selection of historic buildings, such as a chapel that the studio converted into arts-focused teaching spaces. Prior to the renovation, the facilities

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Office ParkScheerbarth adds bright red-timber building to compact Berlin site

October 24, 2023 Katie Last 0

Bright red curving forms and cubic volumes form Haus 2+, a mixed-use building that architecture studio Office ParkScheerbarth has added to a compact riverside site in Berlin. Located in Holzmarkt 25, a former lumber port that has been developed into a cultural district, the building features a timber structure and bright red-painted larch cladding that

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Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL designs Japanese house to be “one big cat tree”

October 16, 2023 Katie Last 0

Architect Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL designed A Cat Tree House as a home in Kamakura, Japan, for his family and cats. Located an hour outside of central Tokyo, the home was designed by Architecture studio Tan Yamanouchi & AWGL’s founder to be a comfortable space for his cats with an interior arrangement that takes cues from climbable, cat trees. “The

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Digital House is an aluminium-clad micro home in Germany

October 8, 2023 Katie Last 0

German designers Julian Krüger and Benjamin Kemper have created Digital House, a micro home that can be built without using nails or screws and was designed to be easy to disassemble. Added to a narrow site in a forest in north Germany, Digital House was constructed from recycled aluminium and timber and can be assembled

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Matra spreads multi-generational Indian home across four concrete blocks

October 6, 2023 Katie Last 0

Four concrete volumes topped with pitched roofs run alongside each other to form Prism House, a multi-generational home designed by Indian studio Matra. Located in the south of Delhi, the six-bedroom home was designed to provide private and communal living spaces for three generations of the client’s family. Drawing inspiration from Vastu – a set

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Kurosawa Kawara-Ten turns disused Japanese house into wood-clad office

October 5, 2023 Katie Last 0

Japanese studio Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has used local and recycled materials to transform a vacant house into a workspace named Ichihara Life and Work Commission Office. Located in Japan’s Ichihara City, the office features a double-level workspace as well as spaces for cooking and dining, and was designed with the goal of preserving the features of

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Kennedy Nolan covers L-shaped coastal home in charred timber

October 4, 2023 Katie Last 0

Rich hues and curving geometries feature throughout Somers House, an L-shaped coastal home that Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has added to a coastal site in Victoria. Set in a small town named Somers on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, the home was designed to offer a place of retreat for the client’s family and features earthy colours

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O’Sullivan Skoufoglou transforms Berlin bungalow with blocky extension

October 3, 2023 Katie Last 0

A band of limestone separates old and new at Fohlenweg, a house in Berlin that London studio O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects created using the walls of an existing bungalow. The three-storey family home was developed from a single-storey house on the edge of Grunewald Forest and features a pale brick exterior divided by the limestone band.

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Chinese kindergarten designed as “small town” of flexible classrooms

October 2, 2023 Katie Last 0

Winding balconies and outdoor learning spaces feature in Kindergarten of Museum Forest, a curvy building that Chinese studio Atelier Apeiron has added to an existing nursery in Shenzhen. Aiming to challenge typical kindergarten architecture, Atelier Apeiron designed the building to resemble a town, adding a planting around its edges to evoke a small forest. “Children

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Plant-filled courtyard connects steel and stone houses in Sydney

September 24, 2023 Katie Last 0

Australian studio Retallack Thompson has constructed a steel extension for a heritage-listed stone terrace in Sydney and added a second house on the same plot to create a multi-generational family home. Steel House/Stone House was designed to resemble a tiny village, with the original 1830s terrace house and the new freestanding steel-framed building positioned at

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