Apartments with deliberately non-defined rooms fill this social housing block in Barcelona, which local practice Cierto Estudio has finished with a palette of bold red and pastel green. Named La Comunidad Habitacional, or The Room Community,… Read More »Barcelona social housing by Cierto Estudio “challenges traditional gender roles”
UK studio Hugh Broughton Architects has unveiled its design for a bright yellow addition to the Australian government’s research base in Antarctica. Antarctic specialists Hugh Broughton Architects has designed a vehicle workshop as part of… Read More »Hugh Broughton Architects set to extend Australian Antarctic research base
British studio Foster + Partners has designed a sinuous timber showroom to mimic the “contours of the landscape” in Gstaad, Switzerland. Set to be nestled into a valley, Gstaad House will encompass three floors of… Read More »Foster + Partners arranges Alpine gallery around three-story car ramp
Japanese studio I IN has created Blue Bottle Coffee‘s first kiosk in Santa Clara, California, which has a minimalist design and was prefabricated from stainless steel. The aim behind the project was to create a… Read More »Stainless steel and blue details decorate modular Valley Fair Kiosk for Blue Bottle Coffee
Furniture built from doors and stairs made by “flipping” concrete floors feature inside this community hub, which architect Søren Pihlmann has created in a 1960s factory and opened up as part of Copenhagen Architecture Biennial.… Read More »Pihlmann Architects turns floors into staircases and facades into pavements at Thoravej 29
Designer Zixuan Luo has been awarded third place in Dezeen and Bentley‘s Radical Renewal Competition for her proposal to retrofit Chicago‘s Richard J Daley Center with passive climate systems while retaining its facade. Called Between… Read More »Proposal to retrofit Chicago landmark wins third place in the Radical Renewal Competition