Articles by Lizzie Fison

Groin-vaulted ceiling takes centre stage in revamped 18th-century property

June 11, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Italian studio Duearchitetti has renovated an apartment in an 18th-century building in Varese, which features a central doric column, a stone manger and a groin-vaulted ceiling. Once owned by a wealthy Milanese family, the building was recently divided into apartments and completely restored. Locally based Duearchitetti was then invited to overhaul one of the building’s ground-floor apartments, called Casa AG. The

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Groin-vaulted ceiling takes centre stage in revamped 18th-century property

June 11, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Italian studio Duearchitetti has renovated an apartment in an 18th-century building in Varese, which features a central doric column, a stone manger and a groin-vaulted ceiling. Once owned by a wealthy Milanese family, the building was recently divided into apartments and completely restored. Locally based Duearchitetti was then invited to overhaul one of the building’s ground-floor apartments, called Casa AG. The

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Rediscovered attic space makes room for mezzanine level in Barcelona apartment

June 10, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Ras Studio has overhauled an apartment in Barcelona, uncovering a hidden gabled ceiling where it could fit a polycarbonate-walled mezzanine level. The Barcelona-based studio peeled back the existing ceiling slabs, revealing the attic area and enabling the architects to expand the single-level apartment – named La Dominique – into a two-storey loft with a bedroom on

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Rediscovered attic space makes room for mezzanine level in Barcelona apartment

June 10, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Ras Studio has overhauled an apartment in Barcelona, uncovering a hidden gabled ceiling where it could fit a polycarbonate-walled mezzanine level. The Barcelona-based studio peeled back the existing ceiling slabs, revealing the attic area and enabling the architects to expand the single-level apartment – named La Dominique – into a two-storey loft with a bedroom on

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Swiss architecture students design and build wooden events pavilion beneath Zurich overpass

June 8, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Two hundred architecture students from a Lausanne university designed and built this events pavilion in Zurich, using lengths of timber to create a towering staircase, undulating seating and projection screens. Conceived by first-year students taking part in Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (ALICE) – a summer workshop at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – the 240-square-metre structure was erected under an overpass in the Swiss

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Glazed meditation room overlooks traditional courtyard from Nanjing home

June 7, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Ming Gu Design has grafted a glazed meditation area onto this historic home in Nanjing, China, which projects out to overhang a central courtyard. The Nanjing-based architecture studio added the gabled meditation room, which features glass walls, to the centre of the heritage-listed house. The meditative space protrudes outwards and overhangs the base of the existing structure of the house, appearing as

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Outdoor terrace divides two sides of zinc and concrete home in Costa Rica

June 6, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Two volumes, one made from zinc and one from concrete, are separated by a glazed walkway and terrace in this Costa Rican house by MG Design Studio. The San Jose-based architects split the two sections of the house – each with inward-sloping, mono-pitched roofs – into social and private areas. One contains an open-plan kitchen, living and dining room, while the

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Photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li provide first look at Ole Scheeren’s Guardian Arts Center in Beijing

June 5, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

These new photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li reveal the “pixelated” forms of the Guardian Arts Center by Büro Ole Scheeren as it nears completion in Beijing. Scheeren’s architecture firm unveiled the new headquarters for the country’s oldest art auction house, China Guardian, in mid-2015. Conceived as the world’s first major museum and auction house hybrid, the arts centre provides two large auction halls, as

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New photographs offer a look inside a modernist theatre in Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh

May 21, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Neelam Theatre, one of three cinemas built as part of Le Corbusier’s construction of Chandigarh, is revealed in these new images by British photographer Edmund Sumner. Built in the early 1950s, Neelam Theatre is located in Sector 17, the commercial district of the modernist city that was famously masterplanned by Le Corbusier in post-independence India. But the building was actually

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Sergey Makhno Architects reveals atmospheric visuals of Ukrainian mountain residence

May 17, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Sergey Makhno Architects has revealed these painterly renderings of a weathering steel holiday home nestled in Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains. The Kiev-based architecture studio – which also specialises in interior and product design – created the intricately rendered visuals for Rose House using programmes 3DS Max and Corona Renderer.  The concrete structure is shown clad in weathering steel and surrounding an elevated

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