Crawshaw Architects design ambitious conversion from farm building into library and office
The new library is set in a group of outbuildings within the curtilage of the Grade II listed Stanbridge Mill Farm in Dorset, UK. The main house is a beautifully converted Georgian farmhouse with a shallow river running...
A contrasting, memorable and minimalistic contemporary house near the Black Sea town of Sozopol
This house by Simple Architecture is located near the Black Sea town of Sozopol in Bulgaria and is situated on a plot with panoramic sea views. The project consists of the partial reconstruction and complete visual...
UrbanEye Film Festival 2022 questions who do cities belong to and who can still live in them
If cities and the environment we live in have always been changing, the speed at which it is happening now is unprecedented. As a reflection on what is happening, but also a call to action, the theme chosen for this...
A quiet, sophisticated California oceanfront home featuring contemporary furnishings and art
There’s something singularly magical about the northern California coast, where wildflower-laden bluffs meet the churning pacific and gray whales seasonally leap from the waves. This landscape was like a siren call to...
A house that frames a segment of the landscape and transforms it into an exterior refuge
This project by Juan Pablo Ureta Arquitectos seeks to question certain notions about living and how we relate to the environment. Its design frames a segment of the landscape to transform it into an exterior refuge,...
Zoncuantla apartment block features concrete pigmented with minerals from its site
This project is located in the mesophilic forest of the old Xalapa – Coatepec (Veracruz, Mexico) highway on a terrain with privileged panoramic qualities. In this polygonal space and in correspondence with the slope...
A weekend house with a traditional morphology combining modern details with historical technologies
This house in Bukovany, Czech Republic lies in a pleasant wine cellar lane with limited access for construction equipment. SENAA architekti had to abandon the original reconstruction plan after the actual condition was...
A home in Wyoming inspired by the separate but connected forms of a dogtrot barn
Dogtrot (Jackson, Wyoming, US) is sited at the center of a quiet 18-acre meadow with panoramic views of the surrounding ranchlands, foot-hills, and mountains, notably Mount Glory, the distinctive southernmost peak of...
Studio Modijefsky pays tribute to Dijkhuis’ heritage while filling it with contemporary style
In the north of Amsterdam, a traditional Dijkhuis (dyke house) has been transformed into a family home by Studio Modijefsky. This kind of building, as one might have guessed, is built next to a dyke. As building a dyke...
The MPP Cellularium’s interior features dark tones and smooth screeds that underline the playfully modelled space
An interesting, but intricately shaped space in the new MPP building, where one can hardly find a flat wall in the floor plan and the space is vertically interwoven with inclined load-bearing columns – this was the...