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Dezeen Debate features forest house with “brutal privacy screens”

June 25, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a home surrounded by concrete blocks by design studio Nendo. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Design studio Nendo has completed a home in Japan that has a triangular form and is enclosed in walls made out of concrete blocks. Commenters discussed the home, with one asking “Why

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Angled concrete blocks screen home in Japanese forest by Nendo

June 21, 2024 Katie Last 0

Screens of concrete panels surround Block Wall House, a triangular home that design studio Nendo has nestled into a forest in Japan. Located in Japan’s Nagano Prefecture, the home has a long triangular form extending 110 metres along the side of a road, which winds through the forested landscape. Nendo has screened the house from

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Ye strips Tadao Ando beach house in Malibu back to its structure

June 19, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Musician Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has removed the windows and gutted the interior of a concrete home in Malibu, California, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Images of the home’s bare structure have been widely shared following a New Yorker article where contractor Tony Saxon detailed how the house was gutted at the

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A Material Palette Of Pale Brick, Concrete, And Timber Echoes This Home’s Coastal Site

June 17, 2024 Erin 0

Architecture firm studioplusthree has shared photos of a project in Sydney, Australia, that included the alterations and additions to an existing house. The home features a material palette of pale brick, concrete, and timber evoking the project’s coastal location and echoing the natural sandstone outcrops and manmade concrete platforms of nearby Clovelly Beach. Custom handmade […]

Vaulted roofs and laterite walls form “unapologetically modern” home in India

June 12, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Barrel-vaulted concrete roofs are supported by thick laterite walls at The Stoic Wall Residence in Kerala, India, completed by local studio Lijo Reny Architects. Located in Kadirur, the home is designed by Lijo Reny Architects to be modern yet regional, with a layout and material palette that respond to Kerala’s tropical climate. It is organised

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Atelier Janda Vanderghote creates “serene” garden studio in Ghent

June 11, 2024 Katie Last 0

Local studio Atelier Janda Vanderghote has used simple materials to create the T(uin)Huis Atelier garden studio in Ghent, Belgium. Although originally intended to be a woodworking studio, the building was designed to be flexible, currently acting as a temporary home for the owners while building work is carried out on their house. The studio sits

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OFIS Arhitekti marries exposed concrete with black brick for Slovenian home

June 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A projecting portico formed of exposed concrete creates an “imposing” entrance to Villa Eternal Way, a home in Ljubljana by local studio OFIS Arhitekti. The home’s elevated entrance references those of traditional Slovenian structures in the area, which are raised above ground level due to the historical risk of flooding. Meanwhile, Villa Eternal Way’s facades are

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ARG Architects updates gridded home in Iceland with curving walls

May 31, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A curved wall of rammed earth made from local soil has been added to the gridded interior of Curvilinear Serenity, a house in Iceland renovated by local practice ARG Architects. ARG Architects was tasked with updating the single-storey family home built in the 1970s in Garðabær, a rapidly growing area of Iceland. According to the studio,

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Recycling “breakthrough” could usher in zero-emissions cement

May 31, 2024 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have devised a way of cheaply producing low-carbon concrete at scale by making use of waste cement and the steel industry’s electric arc furnaces. The method developed by the engineers involves recycling old cement from demolished buildings by heating it up and reactivating the compounds within it. Key to

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Cast Corbel House by Grafted features handcrafted red-concrete details

May 27, 2024 Betty Owoo 0

A red-hued extension built from brick and pigmented concrete has been added to a Victorian house in the suburbs of Norwich by local architecture studio Grafted. Located in the Golden Triangle in the Heigham Grove conservation area, the home is named Cast Corbel House after the handmade concrete corbelling on its facade that nods to

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