Paris-based Littow Architectes has designed a group off-grid holiday homes on the coast in the Helsinki archipelago, Finland. Named the Majamaja Off-Grid Village, the cabins are located on a rocky site on the water’s edge,… Read More »Littow Architectes creates collection of off-grid cabins on Helsinki archipelago
In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a home in Kerala with curved walls formed of smooth layers of cement plaster, designed by local studio Tropical Architecture Bureau. Informed by the architecture of tropical… Read More »“Is it cake?” asks commenter
This video produced by Jim Stephenson features the Ardoch residence in Aberdeenshire by locally-based studio Moxon Architects, which has been shortlisted for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award. The film forms part… Read More »Moxon Architects revives residential ruin using “Scottish craftsmanship and local tradespeople”
Promotion: US-based fabrics brand Pallas Textiles has released a series of textiles for interior design applications that utilise recycled plastic recovered from the ocean and landfills. Pallas Textiles collaborated with American firms Limn & Loom… Read More »Pallas Textiles utilises yarn made from recycled plastic for range of fabrics
Lebanese-Italian studio AB + AC Architects has hidden a space for quiet contemplation inside two nesting boxes in Dubai‘s busy design district as part of a pavilion commissioned by carmaker BMW. Created for Dubai Design… Read More »Tranluscent chiffon enshrouds demountable “temple” by AB + AC Architects
Mexico City architecture studio HEMAA utilised a steel structure and green-coloured eaves for Pabellón de la Reserva, a meeting place sited on the marshy shores of a lake in the mountains of central Mexico. Pabellón… Read More »HEMAA integrates “nuanced structure” into Mexican wetlands pavilion