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DataAE and Xavier Vendrell balance Barcelona housing block on steep site

October 30, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Spanish architecture studios DataAE and Xavier Vendrell have balanced two rows of social housing on a hillside in Barcelona overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The project includes 39 units – a total of 4,785 square metres (51,500 square feet) – broken into three volumes that are oriented towards the water. Claudi Aguiló and Albert Domingo, who

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Neri&Hu animates gridded Taipei apartment block with arched screens

July 24, 2024 Christina Yao 0

Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has completed a residential building in Taiwan that features a gridded facade filled with inverted-arch screens. Located on a former US military base in Taipei, the apartment block is intended to echo the community feel and slower pace of life in the district, contrasting the city’s bustling commercial areas. It is

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Mae Architects completes “21st-century almshouse” in Southwark

April 26, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Mae Architects has created Harriet Hardy House in Southwark, a block of 119 social homes complete with a community centre and cafe. Commissioned by Southwark Council, the housing forms part of the Aylesbury estate redevelopment and is organised in a U-shape around a central courtyard. According to Mae Architects, Harriet Hardy House is

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House of Greens by 4site Architects offers “a garden experience in every space”

April 24, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Planted balconies surround open living spaces at this house in Bangalore, designed by Indian studio 4site Architects for a nature-loving family. Named House of Greens, the four-bedroom home is informed by Bangalore’s history of green spaces and parks, which have earned it the moniker of the “garden city” of India. “As a tribute to Bangalore,

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Red accents enliven social housing block on triangular plot in Barcelona

April 13, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Movable metal shutters reveal bright red balconies at this social housing block in Barcelona, created by local architecture studios MIAS and Coll-Leclerc Architects. Located on a triangular plot to the south of the city, the building provides 72 apartments across seven storeys and is clad with vertical panels of terracotta-coloured glass-reinforced concrete. MIAS and Coll-Leclerc

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H-H Studio designs home in Vietnam as “a place to live, work, study, grow crops and entertain”

February 23, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

White volumes, balconies and planters are stacked around a central courtyard at House for Young Families in Da Nang, Vietnam, which has been designed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. H-H Studio created t dwelling with spaces that could be used flexibly and provide a close connection to the outdoors for the home’s clients, who

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Ten buildings that make a sculptural feature of their balconies

January 25, 2024 Anna Marks 0

Featuring buildings equipped with meandering balconies and terraces that fan out like leaves, this roundup collects 10 of the most dramatic sculptural balconies published on Dezeen. Kaktus Towers, Denmark, by BIG Danish architecture studio BIG’s Kaktus Towers comprises two jagged buildings that hold 495 residences and are equipped with angular balconies. The homes are linked

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Triptyque wraps Onze22 high-rise in Brazil with large balconies

January 19, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

French-Brazilian architecture studio Triptyque has completed an 85-metre-tall residential tower in São Paulo that offers its occupants indoor-outdoor living. The 24-storey building is part of the Onze22 development, which includes a smaller adjacent structure. In the residential tower, balconies wrap the building on three sides, allowing apartments to extend outdoors. Triptyque aimed to offer “total

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X11 Design Studio “connects nature with daily activities” at De Chill House in Vietnam

December 31, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Balconies shaded by trailing plants front this slender concrete home in Vietnam, which has been designed by local architecture practice X11 Design Studio to “promote a connection between nature and people”. Designed for a three-generation family in Quang Ninh the home is called De Chill House. It features planted yards at either end, a central

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Bright yellow balconies enliven Melbourne apartment block by Austin Maynard Architects

December 29, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A “mountainous” zigzag roofline and bright yellow balconies define the ParkLife apartment block in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne, designed by local studio Austin Maynard Architects. The block is located within Nightingale Village, a collection of six apartment buildings by different architects for housing not-for-profit Nightingale Housing that all demonstrate its development model, aiming to

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