Northwest Art House / Olson Kundig
“The owners were quite generous with the design of their home – they built it for themselves, but also to support the larger art community of which they are a part.” –Jim Olson, Design Principal
Sustainability
3BOX92 / Stephane Malka Architecture
Located in Boulogne Billancourt (district 92), on Paris’s western area, 3Box92 is a 2 floor vertical extension constructed on an 19th century existing building.Entirely built with prefabricated systems, the room units are stacked one to another, creating mass superpositions, voids and double heights.
Kugayama South Gate Building / Sasaki Architecture
The Area – Commuter Town with Hints of Water and Greenery
The building is located in the west part of central Tokyo, in the immediate vicinity of Kugayama station.The area is rimmed with greenery, showing remembrances of a hilly countryside from the past. To the south of the station there are waterways like Kanda River and Tamagawa Aqueduct, and to the north there is a trace of an old pilgrimage trail. The site faces the very gateway to an attractive shopping lane, opening its two sides to the public.
“The world’s most sustainable office building isn’t enough to save the planet”
Awarding the Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners for its Bloomberg building sends the wrong message and risks runaway global warming. We need a new approach to sustainability says Phineas Harper. Sustainability has been seen for years by architects as a worthy but tedious constraint. Tick-box regulations have been adopted by a compliant but begrudging
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Kalkbreite / Müller Sigrist Architekten
The residential and commercial complex with integrated tram depot stands at a prominent point marking the boundary between two city districts. It combines residential, service and commercial uses in an identity-lending, large but compact form.
Redhouse Architecture wants to use mushrooms to turn derelict buildings into new homes
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living series reveals a plan to recycle derelict homes, by demolishing them, combining the waste with mushroom mycelium and then using it to build new, biodegradable structures. The technique, which is being developed by Cleveland studio Redhouse Architecture, is intended as both an answer to the housing crisis and
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Skandium Townhouse shows how your home could be more eco-friendly
A high-end furniture store has been transformed into an eco-friendly home full of sustainable Scandinavian products for London Design Festival. Skandium Townhouse, a concept store housed inside a four-storey house in Brompton, is currently calling itself Eco Townhouse. Danish brands Montana and Skagerat have furnished the property, using only pieces from brands that have a strong ethical
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Waugh Thistleton installs modular three-storey maze in V&A’s Sackler Courtyard
A nine-metre-high maze built from cross-laminated timber is on show at the V&A during London Design Festival, to demonstrate the potential of carbon-neutral buildings. London-based architecture studio Waugh Thistleton is behind MultiPly, a modular three-storey structure that showcases the first British-made CLT – a type of engineered wood that is much stronger than standard timber. The installation comprises a series of cube-shaped
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Anders Berensson Architects proposes “wooden skyscraper city” for Stockholm
Anders Berensson Architects has unveiled plans for a conceptual housing development on Stockholm’s waterfront containing 31 cross-laminated timber towers. The Stockholm Centre Party commissioned the Stockholm-based studio to masterplan a sustainable district for the city in Sweden. Anders Berensson Architects has previously created proposals for a wooden skyscraper covered in numbers, and a high-density housing district connected by aerial walkways, for the
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Ruth Pearn envisions public bathhouse to fight period poverty in Yorkshire
University of Westminster graduate Ruth Pearn has designed a concept for a bathhouse, with a tampon recycling scheme, which would alleviate period poverty and combat stigma around menstruation. Pearn, who was tutored by Clare Carter, Gill Lambert and Nick Wood, designed The New Public Convenience: Hull’s Bath House & Lady Garden, as her graduate project on the
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