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Tectoniques sets ochre-coloured concrete house into French hillside

March 20, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0
P House by Tectoniques Architetectes in Lyon

Architecture studio Tectoniques has built a house from concrete dyed with ochre that emerges from the ground in Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or, France. Called P House, the semi-hidden structure has a rough, rugged exterior designed to blend into the slope of the land. Tectoniques fabricated the house from a specially developed concrete, created together with materials supplier Lafarge.

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Glass corridor connects underground concrete extension to house in Spain

March 18, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Landaburu Borda by Jordi Hidalgo Tané

Architecture studio Jordi Hidalgo Tané has extended a small stone building in rural Navarra, Spain, with a subterranean concrete annex accessed via a glass corridor. The original building, called Landaburu Borda, sits close to the town of Bera and overlooks the surrounding landscape of the Navarra mountains. In order to not disrupt this dramatic setting,

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LUO Studio turns abandoned concrete foundations into community centre

March 17, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Party and Public Service Center of Yuanheguan Village by LUO studio in China

Architcture practice.  LUO Studio has extended the abandoned foundations and concrete columns of a residential project with a timber-framed upper storey to create a community centre in Yuanheguan, China. Perforated brick wraps the lower storey of the village’s Party and Public Service Centre, which includes offices and conference spaces. Located in Hubei province, the village

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Pavel Míček Architects sinks house into a hillside in Czech mountains

March 7, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
Weekend House in Beskydy by Pavel Míček Architects exterior

Pavel Míček Architects has built a concrete holiday home in the Beskydy Mountains of eastern Europe. Weekend House in Beskydy is a 185-square-metre cottage for a family of four, located in the Moravian Wallachia region of the Czech Republic. With its simple A-frame shape, the house is designed to match the traditional properties of the region. But

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Architecture Club builds cast-concrete studio for sculptor Monika Sosnowska

March 2, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
Atelier Monika Sosnowska by Architecture Club north elevation

Architecture Club has completed a sculpture studio for Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, featuring board-marked concrete walls and huge windows. Located in Warsaw, the 150-square-metre studio is described by its architects as “a generous light-drenched space for undistracted experimentation”. It is a five-metre-high concrete box, with large, bespoke window walls on both the north and the south sides.

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Concrete home in Slovenia combines living spaces with a ceramics studio

February 27, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
House for a ceramic designer by Arhitektura d.o.o.

Slovenian practice Arhitektura d.o.o has designed a low concrete house in the suburbs of Ljubljana around a central courtyard that connects a series of living spaces with the owner’s ceramics studio. Called House for a Ceramic Designer, the home faces its surroundings with an austere and smooth concrete finish, but opens up internally with full-height glazing

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MoDus Architects wraps Bressanone tourist office around a tree

February 24, 2020 Amy Frearson 0
TreeHugger by MoDus Architects

The TreeHugger tourist information office in Bressanone, northern Italy, features smooth concrete walls that curve around the trunk of a tree. Designed by local studio MoDus Architects, the small building sits adjacent to the Bishop’s Palace, a 13th-century villa that is one the town’s main tourist attractions. The building is named TreeHugger, because its shape

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Berlin’s Brutalist Silence co-working space has barely anything inside

February 4, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Brutalist Silence co-working space, designed by Annabell Kutucu

Concrete surfaces and just a smattering of furnishings provide a “silent stage” for members using this Berlin co-working space, designed by Annabell Kutucu. The co-working space – which interior designer Kutucu named Brutalist Silence – is set inside Marina Marina, a creative hub that sits beside the waters of Berlin’s Spree River. When tasked with developing

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Colonnade extends from concrete house on an old vineyard in Switzerland

February 4, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Concrete Villa Comano by DF-DC

A concrete house in Switzerland by architecture practice DF_DC has an outdoor terrace on a plinth banded by an asymmetrical colonnade of rectangular columns. Deep fins along the side elevations filter in light while preventing overlooking from the adjacent properties. Located on a former vineyard in Comano, the the aptly named Concrete Villa sits on

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David Adjaye curves pink concrete around Los Angeles store The Webster

January 24, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
The Webster Los Angeles by Adjaye Associates

David Adjaye has used pink-tinted concrete to form a “tough and gentle” store in Los Angeles for fashion retailer The Webster, which marks the British-Ghanian architect’s first project in California. Adjaye Associates was enlisted to create the 11,000-square-foot (1,022-square-metre) flagship store for the luxury retailer at the base of the Beverly Center. The pink-tinted concrete

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