Barn-inspired Conservatory House is an off-grid escape on a Pretoria farm
South African architect Nadine Englebrecht has completed an off-grid home featuring a central conservatory in the countryside outside Pretoria. Read more
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Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store
Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. The store forms part of the new Iconsiam shopping complex that opened in November. Fronted by two expansive glass facades, it is designed as an extension of the plant-filled plaza it
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Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store
Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. The store forms part of the new Iconsiam shopping complex that opened in November. Fronted by two expansive glass facades, it is designed as an extension of the plant-filled plaza it
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Jac Studios creates delicate glass exhibition inside Tadao Ando’s Genius Loci
Jac Studios has designed minimal glass display cases for an exhibition in a Tadao Ando-designed museum – a project that has just won top prize at the Inside awards. The Yumin Art Nouveau Collection exhibition is a permanent showcase at Tadao Ando’s Genius Loci, a museum made up of board-marked concrete walls, located on Jeju Island, South
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The Design Of The Tacuri House Was Inspired By The Surrounding Landscape
Photography by Bicubik Gabriel Rivera Arquitectos have completed the Tacuri House, a single-family home in Quito, Ecuador, whose design was inspired by the natural environment and the surrounding Algarrobo trees, giving place to the architectural concept: “living amongst the trees”. Photography by Bicubik Stepping inside the front door, and it quickly becomes apparent that the […]
follies in the veld pavilion made of bottles explores glass as a building material
the structure is a part of an annual ‘design + make’ workshop hosted by south africa-based architecture studio theMAAK.
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This New Home Uses Materials That Complement The Landscape
Photography by Casey Dunn Michael Hsu Office Of Architecture have designed a new house in Mason, Texas, that’s located on and inspired by an old family campsite. Situated on a remote stretch of the Llano River, the family chose a site for their home at the top of a hill overlooking the river, that’s […]
Foster + Partners unveils plans for Madrid office with diamond-shaped facade
Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to turn a 1970s building in Madrid, Spain, into offices, which will feature a diamond-patterned exterior and a rooftop terrace. The four-storey building, which will be named Axis Madrid, is situated at one of the city’s key intersections, perched between the main north-south artery, Paseo de la Castellana, and Génova
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Former military lookout in Gibraltar transformed into glazed viewpoint
Arc Designs has created a cantilevered viewing platform, and walkway with a glazed floor, perched on one of the highest points of the Rock of Gibraltar. Named Skywalk, the viewing platform is built above an existing WWII military platform in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve that once served as a base for anti-aircraft Bofors guns. Arc Designs wrapped
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Casa Ortega By Estudio A0
Photography by Sebastián Crespo Architecture firm Estudio A0, have designed a brick, glass, and steel house in Sangolquí, Ecuador, that has two pavilions, one for the client’s own family and one for his parents. Photography by Sebastián Crespo Walls of glass wrap around the house, while a wood deck follows the shape of the […]