Rediscovering the Elegance of Red Bricks in a Contemporary Home
Situated just north of downtown Toronto, the Noel Residence, a single-family home designed by StudioAC, distinguishes itself with its unique and innovative design. The concept revolves around a series of “living boxes,” providing each room with its unique spatial identity and experience, while maintaining an overall sense of cohesion. The ground floor boasts a variety […]
Wooden House by the Lake, Appels Architekten
A sculpture of wooden cubes as a home for a family. This family home expresses its inner life, its context of seasons, light, and surroundings in a simple architectural figure. Conceptionally, it distinguishes between private rooms and a generous open space for daily family life. All private rooms are artistically composed of a sculpture of […]
Kastella’s Sustainable New Collection: The Offcuts
Kastella, a Montreal-based manufacturer and distributor of premium hardwood furniture, has launched a new collection called “The Offcuts,” designed in collaboration with a Sr. Furniture Maker at Kastella, Raphaël Dinh. The collection includes three unique pieces built using hardwood ends from the production of their furniture collection. These pieces are produced in a limited series […]
Reimagining Hospitality with the Grand Magic Hotel
The Grand Magic Hotel is a new immersive hotel experience in Paris, developed by multimedia studio Moment Factory and global investment manager Schroders. The hotel’s interior design and multimedia features offer guests a 360-degree experience, taking them on an unforgettable journey through four unique worlds: The French Garden, The Forest Pavilion, The Water Palace, and […]
White Cassette, a multifunctional and minimalist apartment
Maxim Kashin Architects designed an apartment project in Moscow called White Cassette, which is inspired by 1970s experiments by Japanese architects to create modular structures for housing. The interior of the 42 sq.m. apartment is designed as a special box-transformer that opens according to necessity in relation to the various functional tasks of the residents. […]
South Hill House: Elegant Restoration of an Old Brick Home in Toronto
South Hill House is a renovation and extension project of an older brick home located in Toronto, Canada. The project respects the existing structure while adding contemporary details, larger open spaces, and modernist massing. The new addition uses a brick chosen to match that of the existing house, and expansive panoramic openings were used to […]
The new Cavallerizza Reale in the heart of Turin
The group led by Cino Zucchi Architetti e Politecnica, with Tatiana Milone, Dotdotdot, Stratosferica and Alberto Artioli, won the international competition for the renovation of the Cavallerizza Reale complex in Turin. The competition aimed to create a cultural centre in the city, capable of combining new cultural, educational, hospitality, social and administrative functions. The winning project aims to regenerate the […]
World’s best buildings according to Dezeen Awards 2022
In the first of a series of daily announcements of category winners, Dezeen announces the winners of the architecture categories in this year’s Dezeen Awards, which celebrates the best architecture, interiors and design around the globe. The 11 architecture winners include the Drawing Gallery in Le PuySainte-Reparade, France, designed by the late Richard Rogers at […]
Hub of Huts, architecture upside down in Valdaora
For its latest South Tyrolean realisation, noa* returns to Hubertus in Olang, one of the first places to have revealed the studio’s expressive power. After the iconic cantilever pool, a new suspended platform defies gravity law by overturning the concept of wellbeing. When noa* designed the cantilevered swimming pool for Hubertus in 2016, the studio […]
Nekster’s new office provides boundless opportunities to inspire employees
If there is one lesson the digital age has taught us it is that start-ups can have an instant impact on the world. A well-implemented idea can disrupt existing ways of doing things and open up markets nobody had previously known existed. What technology is particularly good at is building bridges. By connecting people to […]
The metal craftsmanship culture for Architecture and Design, Valente Contract
In the heart of Brianza, defined by some as the home of design, or even “the Silicon Valley of design” cit. there is a reality of artisans whose main purpose is metalworking for design and architecture. They are Valente Contract. Authentic excellence of the territory we have had the pleasure of getting to know up […]
Pedestrian Bridges: 12+ great examples
Pedestrian bridges are nowadays an occasion to design an element that combines the need for functionality with a perfect integration with the landscape. Sometimes it means that these pedestrian bridges hide themselves – with curves, materials and others expedients – as happened with the Helix bridge (perfectly internet in the urban landscape of the Marina […]
