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Kennedy Nolan completes Arts and Crafts-inspired home in Melbourne

May 17, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Arched doorways, sculptural chimneys and a pyramid-shaped roof are among the quirky details that architecture studio Kennedy Nolan has used to add character to this east Melbourne home. Deepdene House is located in a suburban neighbourhood filled with Edwardian properties and verdant gardens. Kennedy Nolan describes its appearance as “roofs and chimneys emerging from lush tree canopies”. The Melbourne studio responded

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Kennedy Nolan completes Arts and Crafts-inspired home in Melbourne

May 17, 2017 Amy Frearson 0

Arched doorways, sculptural chimneys and a pyramid-shaped roof are among the quirky details that architecture studio Kennedy Nolan has used to add character to this east Melbourne home. Deepdene House is located in a suburban neighbourhood filled with Edwardian properties and verdant gardens. Kennedy Nolan describes its appearance as “roofs and chimneys emerging from lush tree canopies”. The Melbourne studio responded

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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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Brooks + Scarpa completes The Six housing for LA’s homeless and disabled veterans

May 16, 2017 John Trujillo 0

California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has designed a low-cost housing development in Los Angeles to accommodate displaced service members. Commissioned by Skid Row Housing Trust, a local homeless-advocacy group, The Six offers low-cost, permanent housing for homeless and/or disabled veterans in the region. Veterans make up three per cent of LA’s population, but account

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Trevor Horne Architects completes 12-sided art gallery in south London park

May 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

London studio Trevor Horne Architects has completed a gallery and apartment building on the site of the former Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, featuring folded brick walls topped with a glazed events space. The building on Tyers Street is the first permanent location for Cabinet Gallery, which was founded in Brixton in 1991 but had previously been operating from premises

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EFFEKT proposes Bratislava housing scheme modelled on a mountain range

May 16, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Danish studio EFFEKT has developed a housing scheme for the Slovenian city of Bratislava, which features a dramatically staggered roofline intended to echo the peaks of a mountain range. EFFEKT has proposed the 120,000-square-metre housing block called Južna Dolina for a stretch of parkland in the city’s Petržalka borough, where it will be surrounded by farmland near the Donau river. To

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Waataa transforms Lisbon offices in compact studio apartments with fold-out furniture

May 15, 2017 Natasha Levy 0

Brightly coloured niches define living spaces inside these three compact studio apartments, which Portuguese practice Waataa has created instead a former office building in Lisbon. The Tondela-based practices added two brightly coloured modules to each of the apartments to help define specific areas for sleeping and dining within the open-plan space. This cabinetry forms a golden-yellow niche for a kitchenette

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Vipp prefabricated cabins are designed as “battery-charging stations for humans”

May 15, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Danish retailer Vipp has created a factory-made, metal-and-glass micro dwelling that comes filled with the company’s line of homeware products. Called Shelter, the 55-square-metre structure is intended to serve as a nature retreat and “battery-charging station for humans”, said Kasper Egelund, who heads the brand. “Vipp has made a plug-and-play getaway that allows you to escape urban

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Competition: win a book documenting the evolution of the modern apartment

May 15, 2017 Lucy Wildsmith 0

Dezeen is giving away five copies of Building Community: New Apartment Architecture by Michael Webb, which charts the growth of terraced towers, social housing, luxury high-rises and other contemporary apartment buildings. The book highlights innovative apartment designs from around the world. It looks to buildings that have enhanced the lives of their inhabitants, surroundings and urban

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Andreas Gruber embeds minimal concrete house into Tyrolean hillside

May 15, 2017 Lizzie Crook 0

A three-storey house made entirely of concrete has been set into the steep slope of the Eisack Valley in South Tyrol by local architect Andreas Gruber. The mountainous setting in northern Italy came with a number of restrictions and regulations, which called for an innovative design that was sympathetic to its Alpine surroundings. “The special climatic conditions in

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