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Red accents enliven social housing block on triangular plot in Barcelona

April 13, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Movable metal shutters reveal bright red balconies at this social housing block in Barcelona, created by local architecture studios MIAS and Coll-Leclerc Architects. Located on a triangular plot to the south of the city, the building provides 72 apartments across seven storeys and is clad with vertical panels of terracotta-coloured glass-reinforced concrete. MIAS and Coll-Leclerc

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H-H Studio designs home in Vietnam as “a place to live, work, study, grow crops and entertain”

February 23, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

White volumes, balconies and planters are stacked around a central courtyard at House for Young Families in Da Nang, Vietnam, which has been designed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. H-H Studio created t dwelling with spaces that could be used flexibly and provide a close connection to the outdoors for the home’s clients, who

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Ten buildings that make a sculptural feature of their balconies

January 25, 2024 Anna Marks 0

Featuring buildings equipped with meandering balconies and terraces that fan out like leaves, this roundup collects 10 of the most dramatic sculptural balconies published on Dezeen. Kaktus Towers, Denmark, by BIG Danish architecture studio BIG’s Kaktus Towers comprises two jagged buildings that hold 495 residences and are equipped with angular balconies. The homes are linked

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Triptyque wraps Onze22 high-rise in Brazil with large balconies

January 19, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

French-Brazilian architecture studio Triptyque has completed an 85-metre-tall residential tower in São Paulo that offers its occupants indoor-outdoor living. The 24-storey building is part of the Onze22 development, which includes a smaller adjacent structure. In the residential tower, balconies wrap the building on three sides, allowing apartments to extend outdoors. Triptyque aimed to offer “total

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X11 Design Studio “connects nature with daily activities” at De Chill House in Vietnam

December 31, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Balconies shaded by trailing plants front this slender concrete home in Vietnam, which has been designed by local architecture practice X11 Design Studio to “promote a connection between nature and people”. Designed for a three-generation family in Quang Ninh the home is called De Chill House. It features planted yards at either end, a central

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Bright yellow balconies enliven Melbourne apartment block by Austin Maynard Architects

December 29, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A “mountainous” zigzag roofline and bright yellow balconies define the ParkLife apartment block in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne, designed by local studio Austin Maynard Architects. The block is located within Nightingale Village, a collection of six apartment buildings by different architects for housing not-for-profit Nightingale Housing that all demonstrate its development model, aiming to

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Chinese kindergarten designed as “small town” of flexible classrooms

October 2, 2023 Katie Last 0

Winding balconies and outdoor learning spaces feature in Kindergarten of Museum Forest, a curvy building that Chinese studio Atelier Apeiron has added to an existing nursery in Shenzhen. Aiming to challenge typical kindergarten architecture, Atelier Apeiron designed the building to resemble a town, adding a planting around its edges to evoke a small forest. “Children

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Cuartopiso and Barragán Arquitectos wrap Mexican apartment building in planted balconies

June 28, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Cuartopiso and Barragán Arquitectos have completed an all-electric, twelve-unit apartment complex with wide balconies overlooking the street in Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico. Local agency Cuartopiso partnered with Barragán Arquitectos, a Mexico City-based studio founded by the nephew of Mexican architect Luis Barragán, to build Hacienda Santa Bárbara 107, which measures 978 square metres (10,527 square

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Eight airy terraces and balconies that become extensions of the interior

May 21, 2023 James Parkes 0

From a plant-enclosed terrace in Mexico to a large rooftop garden set beneath a metal pergola in Tokyo, Dezeen’s latest lookbook highlights eight interiors with impressive balconies and terraces. Each of these balconies and terraces is accessed via glazed walls or floor-to-ceiling glass and provides their homes with not only a physical but also a

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Atelier Gratia designs angular concrete courtyard house in Taiwan

March 22, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

An angular wall of exposed concrete informed by origami wraps this courtyard home in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, designed by local studio Atelier Gratia to be a “sanctuary” from the surrounding city. Called Star House after the street on which it sits in a dense urban area, the four-storey home has been turned inwards, with a series

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