Unseen videos reveal Zaha Hadid’s first digital designs
Architect Daniel Oakley has released videos of the first 3D computer models created at Zaha Hadid Architects, exclusively…
Actiu headquarters a “model of healthy industrial architecture”
Promotion: Spanish furniture brand Actiu’s headquarters, nestled in the mountains of Castalla, Spain, is a bioclimatic industrial campus…
Chilean housing prototype separates structure from enclosure
Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen and Leonardo Gúzman Valencia in Chile have collaborated on a prototype for modular housing lifted…
Mimosa Architects shapes Czech cabin from “rock, river and fire”
Burnt wood and black metal define this rural cabin in the Czech Republic, created by local studio Mimosa…
YNAS uses canopies to reconnect Japan home with the outdoors
Local architecture studio YNAS has renovated and extended a traditional timber home in southern Japan, opening up its…
Jetlag Books’ new shop nods to Soviet-style supply store in Beijing
Promotion: bookshop Jetlag Books has opened its latest store in Beijing, designed by architecture firm Studio NOR as…
Hadid’s Nordpark stations topped with parametric “ice formations”
As part of our ongoing Parametricism series, we look at the Nordpark Railway Stations, a collection of four…
Kuma&Elsa arranges apartments around translucent “huts”
Architecture studio Kuma&Elsa has renovated the top two floors of an apartment block in Japan, creating enclosures that…
Japanese and modernist design informs Studio Hagen Hall house
Studio Hagen Hall has modernised a Georgian terraced house in north London, using a pared-back material palette including…
Atelier Write converts Tokyo warehouse into Unravel hair salon
Japanese studio Atelier Write has transformed a warehouse in Tokyo into a hair salon, suspending mirrors, shelves and…
Five carefully renovated machiya houses in Kyoto
Kyoto‘s historic townhouses, machiyas, are increasing being renovated and turned into everything from hotels to perfume stores. Here,…
“An attractive, well built thing. I approve” says commenter
In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing the completion of Ray Phoenix by California studio Johnston Marklee…