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Studio Anton Hendrik Denys designs Belgian office informed by 1960s colour schemes

March 4, 2021 James Parkes 0
Circular acoustic ceiling panels

Studio Anton Hendrik Denys and Steen Architecten have transformed an industrial office building in Belgium by cladding it in corrugated metal and adding colourful graphic interiors. Studio Anton Hendrik Denys, in collaboration with Steen Architecten, stripped the existing office building in Heverlee back to its core and used the company’s corporate identity to create a design

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Monoarchi designs gridded facade with colourful accents for school in China

March 3, 2021 James Parkes 0
Red form in a courtyard

Monoarchi has designed a campus building with a geometric facade wrapped around a number of small courtyards for an experimental school in Hangzhou, China. The 64,000 square-metre campus was designed for the Hangzhou Chovan Experimental School, which teaches children from ages three to 10-years-old using a teaching method from the Ming Dynasty that emphasises closeness

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Beyond Space designs colourful office around reconfigurable grid system

March 1, 2021 James Parkes 0
Office with grid interior in Amsterdam

Beyond Space has created a flexible office interior for a security company in Amsterdam using a colourful grid system that allows the user to change the layout when needed. Informed by an endless repeating grid system, the studio used a structure made from beams and columns to knit together two office floors. The rigid grid

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Batek Architekten uses stacked volumes to create Berlin duplex townhouse

February 26, 2021 James Parkes 0

Local studio Batek Architekten used stacked cubes to design RHE42, a four-storey Berlin townhouse that looks to repurpose unused space in the city. Located in Mitte, a borough in central Berlin, RHE42 is a 190 square-metre design that contains two apartments and was built against a large fire wall within a typical Berlin courtyard. Berlin

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Masquespacio creates colour-blocked interiors for Bilbao student housing

February 22, 2021 James Parkes 0
Zones are defined by colour blocking

Valencia-based creative studio Masquespacio has completed an open-plan colour-blocked interior with a community feeling for the Resa San Mamés student accommodation in Spain. The interior design for the Bilbao student residence was commissioned by student accommodation company Resa with the aim of letting its occupants “share experiences as a community”. Masquespacio created an open-plan design

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Construction begins on MVRDV’s Pyramid of Tirana renovation

February 19, 2021 James Parkes 0
Steps line the roof and facade

Work has begun on the conversion of the 1980s brutalist Pyramid of Tirana in the Albanian capital into a youth-focused cultural hub. Dutch-architecture studio MVRDV is set to convert the 11,835-square-metre pyramid in central Tirana into a “peoples monument” that contains cafes, studios, workshops and classrooms where free lessons will be available to young Albanians. Built as a museum dedicated to former communist

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Studio Marco Vermeulen designs cross-laminated timber Dutch Mountains skyscrapers

February 18, 2021 James Parkes 0

Studio Marco Vermeulen has unveiled its design for The Dutch Mountains, two connected hybrid skyscrapers made from cross-laminated timber and concrete in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The Dutch Mountains building will comprise two rectangular towers, 130 and 100 metres tall, and was designed for a central location in Eindhoven in the city’s railway zone next to

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UNStudio designs Munich apartment block with reconfigurable interiors

February 18, 2021 James Parkes 0
Modular protruding facade by UNStudio

Amsterdam-based UNStudio has unveiled its Van B residential building in Munich, which will have plug-in furniture modules so that its apartments can be reconfigured. The six-storey building, which the studio has deemed a prototype for modern city dwelling, will be located on Infanteriestrasse near Munich’s Creative Quarter. Described as “analogue smart”, the block will contain 142

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Jonathan Tuckey Design creates red-cement-clad theatre at Berkshire school

February 9, 2021 James Parkes 0
Red theatre

Jonathan Tuckey Design has designed the David Brownlow Theatre for a school in Berkshire that was informed by Renaissance architecture and constructed using cross-laminated timber and red composite cement panels. The theatre at Horris Hill School in Newbury was designed to host assemblies, drama productions and music recitals. The studio’s concept for the theatre was

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Declerck-Daels Architecten clads multi-use office in patinated copper

February 9, 2021 James Parkes 0
Green copper clad facade

Architecture studio Declerck-Daels Architecten has renovated an early 20th-century home in the Belgium town of Ingelmunster into a multifunctional office clad in green-patinated copper cladding. Belgian-based Declerck-Daels Architecten renovated the offices of Belgian construction group Monument Group, which specialises in historical restorations, to reflect the ethos of the company. The renovation updated the offices to create a space that

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