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Filipe Pina and Maria Inês Costa bring abandoned Portuguese farmhouse back to life

August 21, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
MCR2 House by Filipe Pina and Maria Inês Costa

Architects Filipe Pina and Maria Inês Costa have overhauled an abandoned farmhouse in rural Portugal, contrasting its rustic granite walls with a new skin of dark corrugated metal. Pina and Costa completely refurbished the property, now known as MCR2 House, so that it could be used as a holiday home, a guesthouse or as a

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Granite boxes form clifftop house overlooking a lake in India

August 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
The Lakehouse by CollectiveProject

Stacked boxes clad in stone perch on a rocky outcrop overlooking Durgam Cheruvu Lake in Hyderabad in this house designed by architecture studio Collective Project. Called Lakehouse, the house in southern India has two distinct sides to its granite and wood facade. A plain facade with few windows faces the road, but on the lake-facing

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Granite boulders feature in jewellery showroom by Richard Stampton Architects

December 31, 2018 Ali Morris 0
Cushla Whiting jewellery showroom by Richard Stampton Architects

Granite boulders skewered on metal poles are used to display jewellery in this Melbourne showroom designed by Richard Stampton Architects. Located in the city’s central business district, the all-white industrial showroom was created by the Phillip Island-based firm for Melbourne jewellery designer Cushla Whiting. The space features whitewashed walls, concrete flooring and exposed beams and

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This New House In South Africa Was Designed To Enjoy The Views Over A Lagoon

July 9, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Adam Letch   Interior design firm ARRCC in collaboration with architecture firm SAOTA, have recently completed the Benguela Cove residence, a new and modern holiday house in Overberg, South Africa, that has expansive views of a lagoon.   Photography by Adam Letch Sections of the house are clad in timber, while the roof […]

A New Home Of Stone And Wood Arrives On The Island Of Guernsey

February 5, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Peter Landers Photography   DLM Architects have recently completed a new house on the island of Guernsey, that replaces a run down lot surrounded by trees.   Here’s a look at the land before the building began… Photography by Peter Landers Photography The new house has the ground floor entirely wrapped in Guernsey […]

A New Home Of Stone And Wood Arrives On The Island Of Guernsey

February 5, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Peter Landers Photography   DLM Architects have recently completed a new house on the island of Guernsey, that replaces a run down lot surrounded by trees.   Here’s a look at the land before the building began… Photography by Peter Landers Photography The new house has the ground floor entirely wrapped in Guernsey […]

B.E Architecture combines different textures of granite at monolithic Melbourne house

December 7, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Granite is used throughout the exterior and interior of this house in Melbourne, where local studio B.E Architecture even had a bespoke bath and basin for the master ensuite carved out of the grey stone. B.E Architecture designed the three-storey Armadale Residence for a couple who wanted to downsize from a large family house to

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Zooco Estudio uses granite to unify disparate blocks of Gallician arts centre

May 1, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Spanish Zooco Estudio has completed a complex of granite-clad buildings in the city of Verín that come together to form an arts centre for the Galician region. The architects were awarded the Silver A’Design Award for their 3,750-square-metre arts centre, which is made up of ten separate spaces housed within irregularly-cut, stone-clad volumes. The larger block contains a submerged auditorium, with the smaller

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Floating steel staircase takes centre stage in granite house by Marcos Miguélez

April 22, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A staircase featuring cantilevered treads connects the library and living room at the centre of this rough granite-clad house in the Spanish town of Magaz de Abajo. Local architect Marcos Miguélez was asked to create the first home for a young couple with an interest in contemporary architecture. Casa VMS occupies a triangular plot on the edge of the town, which

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