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Villa K2 is a timber-clad house with a multi-pitched roof

June 6, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights, sedum and concealed solar panels. Architect Francois Verhoeven’s studio, which is based in The Hague, designed Villa K2 for a site in a waterfront neighbourhood in Eelderwolde near Groningen, the Netherlands. The bungalow is

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Daniel Libeskind’s Museum of Military History “is a symbol of the resurrection”

June 6, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Exterior of the Museum of Military History

Continuing our series on deconstructivism we look at Daniel Libeskind’s extension to the Museum of Military History in Dresden, Germany, which features a pointed steel and glass shard that thrusts through the original building’s neoclassical facade. The extension was completed in 2011 and is one of Libeskind’s best known projects, along with earlier works such as

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AOC’s Forest House extension features natural materials that “invite the wild in”

May 31, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interior image of the kitchen diner at Forest House

Gillian Lambert and Geoff Shearcroft of architecture firm AOC used a palette of tactile materials and clashing colours to add personality to this extension that wraps around the side and rear of their Victorian house in north London. Lambert and Shearcroft, who are directors of AOC, had lived in the Forest House in the borough

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Beton Brut is a “neo-brutalist” concrete house in Ahmedabad

May 26, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Image of an angular cantilevered roof at Beton Brut

Jutting concrete volumes provide shade to openings and planted terraces at this monolithic concrete house in Ahmedabad, India, designed by local studio The Grid Architects. The Grid Architects created Beton Brut house for an entrepreneur whose family enjoys creative pursuits. The client wanted a home that would provide spaces for family gatherings and for individual

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Feilden Fowles completes timber-framed dining hall at University of Cambridge

May 23, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

London architecture studio Feilden Fowles has completed a timber-framed dining hall at the University of Cambridge’s Homerton College with a faience-tiled volume set above a pigmented-concrete colonnade. Designed to reference the adjacent arts and crafts-style Ibberson Building and the college’s Victorian Gothic Revival buildings, the dining hall contains the main eating space along with a smaller

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Glass walls and reflecting pool surround private spa at Israeli house

May 20, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Pitsou Kedem Architects has completed a private spa in Herzliya, Israel, which is lined with glazed walls and designed so that its owners feel like they are “on a vacation” without needing to leave home. The client for the project asked Tel Aviv studio Pitsou Kedem Architects to design a facility at their home with

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Bahrain weaving facility by Leopold Banchini Architects “celebrates local construction and craft traditions”

May 19, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Exterior of weaving facility in Bahrain by Leopold Banchini Architects

Ponds, palm trees and sunken seating areas interrupt the gridded layout of the Al Naseej Textile Factory in Bahrain, which Leopold Banchini Architects designed to incorporate traditional building methods. Geneva studio Leopold Banchini Architects created the textile factory and social space for the local craftspeople of Bani Jamrah, a village that is renowned for maintaining a traditional

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Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is “the greatest building of our time”

May 18, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Up next in our deconstructivism series is Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a building that reignited the city’s economy and started a global trend for landmark museums. Situated on the west bank of the River Nervion, which flows through Bilbao before reaching the Cantabrian Sea, the Guggenheim Museum instantly attracted attention and critical praise upon

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Architecture for London uses stone to give house extension “a sense of permanence”

May 15, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Stone House extension by Architecture for London

Architecture for London has used a palette of stone, concrete and wood to create this monolithic rear extension to a house in Islington, which features a small arched entrance for the owner’s cat. Aptly named Stone House, the extension was designed by Clerkenwell-based studio Architecture for London for a family who wanted to expand the

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Jestico + Whiles wraps Cambridge University building in perforated aluminium

May 13, 2022 Alyn Griffiths 0

Folding aluminium covers the exterior of the building

Architecture office Jestico + Whiles has completed an aluminium-clad educational facility at the University of Cambridge, England, featuring brightly coloured staircases and built-in furniture. Jestico + Whiles was commissioned to design the three-storey building, a co-working hub with amenities for use by the university and neighbouring institutions, as part of a wider masterplan for the

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