Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

Climbing plants grow in the recesses of this mysterious steel fence, which conceals the entrance to a renovated coach house in north London.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

Completed by London studio Moxon Architects, Murray Mews is now a residence with an entrance courtyard occupying the coach house’s former service yard.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

Glazing behind the fenced facade and courtyard provides a view into the open-plan living room and kitchen, while an extended, projecting entranceway leads inside.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

The building’s original concrete ceiling is retained on the ground floor, as are the existing steel joists.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

Secure bicycle storage is provided in the entrance lobby, while bin stores are integrated into the rear of the steel fence.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

We’ve published a few London extensions on Dezeen – see our earlier stories about a barrel-vaulted conservatory and an extension with a flower-covered roof.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

Photography is by Edmund Sumner.

Here’s a full description from Ben Addy of Moxon Architects:


257 MWS / Murray Mews

This modest project comprises the renovation and extension of a coach house on Murray Mews in the London borough of Camden. Murray Mews comprises a uniquely varied and idiosyncratic, but also beautiful, collection of small scale domestic architecture – a concentration of robust one off houses and conversions that nonetheless retains a coherent charm.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

The project brings new use to the service space at the front of the property as a private courtyard, while the internal spaces comprise a carefully composed mix of pre-existing and new elements. The utilitarian character of the building’s former function is retained and complemented by new insertions to provide for the requirements of a modern home.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

The pre-existing boardmarked in-situ concrete ceiling is retained alongside exposed bolted steelwork and engineering brickwork. New structure and services are incorporated as background elements of volumes and planes.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

In order to maintain security and privacy to the living areas, steel screens are used for the street facing boundary of the site. These screens also incorporate a bin storage area to reduce visual clutter at street level.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

Behind the boundary screens a single storey lobby extension provides both a secure entrance space and cycle storage. Next to the lobby a private front courtyard space has been created to turn an otherwise disused private car parking space into provide external family / play space.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

One of the fundamental characteristics of Murray Mews is the variety of attitudes to the streetside elevations. Proportions, fenestration and massing along the street frontage vary greatly, creating a rich vocabulary of material and structural methods along the length of the street.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

The approach to boundaries also varies along the street; some houses are set back creating private courtyards, others built up to the kerb. These extensions are natural developments over time and are informal in architectural massing terms – this informality is what gives the road its identity and ongoing vitality, this project is intended to take its own identifiable place in this context.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

The vigorous nature of the mews streetscape is complimented by the tough materiality and direct simplicity of the boundary wall. The monolithic nature of the wall matches the functional approach to brickwork and painted timber screen walls elsewhere in the mews.

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The steel used in forming this boundary is stepped in plan to provide structural depth for stiffness while also providing opportunities for planting in the recessed portions of the wall, presenting a green face to the interior of the property.

Murray Mews by Moxon Architects

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Transitlager by BIG

Transitlager by BIG

Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to convert a Basel warehouse with their design for an extension that will zigzag across the roof like a bolt of lightening.

Transitlager by BIG

The Danish architects propose to convert the industrial Transitlager building into offices, apartments and galleries.

Transitlager by BIG

The apartments are to occupy the three new upper floors and will open out onto triangular rooftop gardens.

Transitlager by BIG

Four storeys inside the existing concrete warehouse will house offices and galleries, facing a new public square proposed by site masterplanners Herzog & de Meuron.

Transitlager by BIG

Other projects by BIG on Dezeen include a power plant that doubles up as a ski slope and a centre for women’s sportssee more projects by BIG here.

Transitlager by BIG

Here’s some more information from BIG:


BIG Transforms Transitlager In Switzerland

BIG wins an invited competition to renovate and extend an existing 1960′s concrete warehouse situated in a Basel industrial district which is being transformed into an alternative Arts District.

Transitlager by BIG

Located in Basel’s upcoming Dreispitz neighborhood, which is envisioned as an attractive and inviting urban quarter in Herzog de Meuron’s master plan from 2003, the existing 18.000 m2 ”Transitlager” built in the late 1960s is to be renovated and extended by up to 7.000 m2 for residential and commercial purposes.

Transitlager by BIG

The development is undertaken by St. Gallen -based real estate development company Nüesch Development for the landlord, the Christoph Merian Foundation and investor the UBS (CH) Property Fund – Swiss Mixed ‘Sima’.

Transitlager by BIG

The winning entry which included engineers Bollinger Grohmann and HL Technik was chosen among proposals from Harry Gugger Studio and Lacaton Vassal among others.

Transitlager by BIG

The Transitlager’s surrounding industrial area is characterized by the geometries of infrastructures – the intersecting railways, loading docks and turning radiuses that weave through the city and create a puzzle of linear buildings with pointy corners and staggered façade lines into an untraditional and adventurous urban area consisting of galleries, restaurants and creative businesses.

Transitlager by BIG

The iconic character of the existing Transitlager, its generous surrounding public spaces, and connection to the city’s botanical garden makes the building a natural focal point of the Arts District.

Transitlager by BIG

By re-programming and extending the former warehouse into a multifunctional series of floors for various uses, BIG proposes a cross breed of art, commerce, working and living.

Transitlager by BIG

Two distinct buildings on top of each other form a mixed-use hybrid with activity and life 24 hours a day.

Transitlager by BIG

“We propose a transformation of the Transitlager that builds on the industrial logic of the existing building and of the surrounding area. The extension doubles the size of the Transitlager and becomes an opposite twin – based on the same structure, but with a different geometry. The combined building becomes a spectrum of optimal conditions: From open and flexible plans to tailor made units, public programs to private residences, vibrant urban space to peaceful green gardens and from cool industrial to warm and refined. ” Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner, BIG.

Transitlager by BIG

The wide dimensions of the former warehouse, the mix of programs, the structural limits and the sun orientation creates a typology that is neither point house nor slab – a folded geometry adapted to the specifics of the existing structure and optimized for daylight and views.

Transitlager by BIG

The staggered edge and pointy ends echoes the geometries of the industrial buildings of the neighborhood, creating a surprising familiarity with the heterogeneous surroundings.

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West 57th
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PUU-BO
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Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

TWO/BO Arquitectura and architect Luis Twose have converted a sixteenth-century Catalan house into a business academy for a pharmaceutical company.

A glass-fronted extension cantilevers out from the west face to shelter the main entrance of the Grifols Academy.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

A new spiral staircase joins up with its sixteenth-century counterpart inside the restored stone tower, leading to a rooftop terrace.

The academy provides training facilities, conference rooms and a terraced ground-floor bar.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

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Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

Here are some more details from TWO/BO Arquitectura:


Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Architecture and Luis Twose Architect

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

The aim of the Project was to convert a sixteenth-century house into a new academy centre.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

The site is located in Parets del Vallès and is surrounded by a group of new factories.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

The house was one of the few vestiges of the rural past of the town.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

Before our intervention, the house was abandoned and it was in danger of collapsing.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

It had suffered a lot of renovations and extensions which had obscured the original shape of the building and were now in a state of disrepair.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

This project led to requalification of the existing building, on one hand enhancing and recovering the most historic values, and on the other, clarifying its spaces, which were dark and chaotic, by a new layout with two visual axes and through the introduction of natural light which now reaches every space of the house.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

We focused our intervention on two points, the west façade and the interior of the tower.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

On the west façade, we designed a new access path ending in a plaza which leads to the entrance of the academy.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

This entrance is framed by a new “loggia” (an open-air gallery) which was designed to be a neutral but modern element of iron and glass whose shape connects old parts of the west façade.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

The defensive tower, which had been the old symbol of the house, has been restored.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

The floors were removed to create a dramatic vertical space that leads to the old wooden staircase at the top of the tower.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

With all the plaster removed, the underlying stone structure is now visible.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

The project also involved the landscaping of the grounds.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose

Taking into account the industrial surroundings, and we have tried to create a quiet oasis by making the most of the existing topography, and by planting local vegetation.

Grifols Academy by TWO/BO Arquitectura and Luis Twose


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Messner Mountain
Museum by EM2
Shop in a church
by Merkx+Girod
Museum Extension
by Nieto Sobejano

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

Stacks of reclaimed roof tiles form walls inside this former slaughterhouse in Madrid by Spanish architect Arturo Franco.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

Refurbished in 2009 for administrative use, Warehouse 8B contains an office, a stockroom and an event space.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

The recycled clay tiles were reclaimed from the warehouse roof when it was replaced.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

Lines of missing tiles create narrow apertures in the partition walls.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

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Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

Photography is by Carlos Fernandez Piñar.

The following information was provided by the architects:


In a small warehouse of the old slaughterhouse of Madrid, warehouse 8B, the tiles in bad condition have been removed from the roof, been stacked and been put inside to solve a problem. This could be the summary of the intervention.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

The slaughterhouse of Madrid was projected around 1907 and built during the second decade of the 20th century by Luis Bellido, municipal architect. For almost sixty years it served as a great pantry for the centre area. During this time it demonstrated its functional virtues and its special characteristics only too well. With the passing of time, the style applied to its façades, has become a more questionable matter, as it is far from the first approximations to the Modern Movement that was already being explored in this sort of industrial building in Germany, Holland or France. During the eighties, the slaughterhouse was moved to the outskirts of the city. The small “industrial city” projected by Bellido fell into neglect and oblivion. For the past few years, the town council of Madrid has been trying to convert this deteriorated complex into an avant-garde cultural engine for the city.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

Warehouse 8B will be the space destined for administrative management. It will be composed of a small working area, a stockroom and a multi-purpose space for talks or presentations. Originally they were back-up rooms for the storage of waste produced in warehouse no.8, where skins and salted meat were dried. A minor warehouse but of great spatial interest.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

The priority of the intervention was to replace a roof of flat shingle tiles over boards and successively patched thin, hollow bricks, to carry out a structural reinforcement of the whole set, and to fit out the indoors, thermally and acoustically, so as to provide service to the new uses. This process had been followed before in some other warehouses of the slaughterhouse and, as a result, mountains of tile, timber, cladding and granite slab rubble piled up waiting to be taken to the dump.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

I prefer to think that this project emerged from opportunity, from discovering an opportunity in that rubble. In the path of exploring all the reasonable possibilities, the construction system turns into a project generator, in the place where a certain ethic view on rehabilitation rests, before architecture.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

How does that found object work? How does the flat shingle tile work? How is it stacked? How is it bonded? What are its organoleptic characteristics, its weight? How do they join? These are some of the questions that arise during the process. The absence of some bonding elements produce lattices, the passing of light. Sometimes a whole piece for the walls, others, half a piece for the claddings. The problem of the corners, the lintels. The universal problems that architecture faces arise. At the same time and with the same intensity the workforce and imperfection appear. The imperfection of man and the old, the recovered. I recall a naïve order given on the building site: “Twist yourself José, it doesn’t matter” and an answer, a lecture from the site manager: “I won’t twist! There will always be time for that!” A job of many, full of vibrations. The vibrations of the collective craftsmen, the craftsman that Richard Sennett claims.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

Like that cottage in the woods by the Swedish architect Ralph Erskine, where he piled trunks to protect himself from the harshness of winter, this project is also bioclimatic. It is bioclimatic because the tile contributes to the thermal and acoustic comfort and it’s sustainable because it reinvents itself with what it has within range. It is bioclimatic like architecture of a small country village, like those hearth-chimneys lined with clay that can be found in the province of Soria.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

It’s an intervention that intends to respect a valid spatial configuration, without adulterating it. It is proof of the power of architecture as a qualified container, independent from its uses, of the circumstantial uses. It’s a classic concept, everlasting in space, which has nothing to do with classicism, nor necessarily with Italy. Against the intended traditional “national” style that Luis Bellido applied to façades, in this case, on the inside, the style is diluted, it ceases to be heir of the old Madrid School. Order, opportunity, engagement, contention or clarity without any previous formal will. An unknown field to me, beyond the project, beyond any intention. The architect’s prominence takes a step back, it abandons architecture in time. History is pendular and helical, if we assume it has three dimensions.

Warehouse 8B by Arturo Franco Office for Architecture

This project undoes some paths already travelled, it intends to reach meeting points. It advances by retreating, like rowers, that are looking backwards, like Oteiza explained. From the Spanish tile, which was designed using a woman’s thigh as a mould, and from its manual laying, take over came about by industrialized application and its flat (tile) version. Now, the industrialized elements, lifeless, are understood in another way, de-contextualized and laid from the predictability of manual labour. This project tries to understand architecture as an intellectual, cultural and ethical experience. Not to be mistaken with a social or political stance.

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Location: C/ PASEO DE LA CHOPERA, 14. NAVE 8B. ANTIGUO MATADERO LEGAZPI. 28045 MADRID.
Preparation of the project and completion of construction schedule: January 2009-December 2009.

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Project’s authorship: Arturo Franco. (architect)
Project’s collaborators: Diego Castellanos. (interior architect), Yolanda Ferrero. (architect)
Site Supervisor and Quantity Surveyor: Jose H. Largo Díaz. DITE SL.
Developer/Owner: Arts Council of Madrid City Council
Construction Company: PECSA.s.a.

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Period for completion: 8 months
Work budget: 500.000 €.
Intervention area: 1.000 sq m


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Casa Paz by Arturo
Franco Office
Pallet House
by I-Beam
Slowpoke Cafe
by Sasufi

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

Italian architects EM2 have converted a castle into a mountain museum.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

The architects left the exterior untouched but constructed several new rooms in unfinished timber, added wooden staircases inside and opened up the basement.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

Located in the Alps, the Messner Mountain Museum houses a permanent exhibition about people who live in mountainous regions around the world.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

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Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

Photography is by Harald Wisthaler.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

The following information is from EM2:


Renovation and adaptation of Castle Bruneck to MMM Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects. Castle Bruneck, which has been reorganised and extended for several times, has been redeveloped and adapted during the years 2008 – 2011 by EM2 Architects from Bruneck.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

The architects (Gerhard Mahlknecht, Heinrich Mutschlechner, Kurt Egger) aim consists on one hand in the cultural inheritance saving and restoring and on the other hand in accommodating the exhibition of “mountain people in the world”.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

Telling his own and the history of mountain people at the same time, was the order and cultural responsibility towards the history, the present and the future of the castle.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

The difficulty lay in integrating an museum concept for the exhibition “mountain people” in already built historical structures.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

The needed extending buildings should be clearly readable, reserved and are established in a contemporary architectural language

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

The extending buildings in the access area are consciously made of wood.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

Wood is a material with a restricted life span, it’s aging and will once be gone like the MMM on castle Bruneck.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

The extension of the subterranean part “Zwinger” is hardly discernible and covered with a passable greenery free surface between castle and castle wall.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

About the subterranean extension, cellar rooms are opened in which, darkness and medieval walls are very perceptible.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

A modern, his technology showing elevator integrated in an late-Gothical part of the building, is part of the museum concept and opens the building for handicapped people.

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

A massive wooden stair has been integrated to the round about the year 1282 built tower (Bergfried).

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

While going up to the roof top of the tower, the museums visitor is able to watch the exhibition about “tourism in mountain regions.”

Messner Mountain Museum by EM2 Architects

The top of the tower offers a beautiful view over Bruneck up to the snowy summits of the Zillertaler Aplen in the Ahrntal valley.

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Museum Extension by Nieto Sobejano Castelo Novo by Comoco ArchitectsMuseum Extension by Nieto Sobejano

Shophouse Transformation by all(zone)

Bangkok studio all(zone) added a patterned concrete facade to two disused Bangkok shophouses to crate a live-work unit on each floor.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

The architects have transformed the 5-storey buildings by adding a façade of patterned concrete bricks at the front and back, creating balconies between the existing building and old facades.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

Metal mesh screens are used as walls and flooring for these in-between spaces.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

A car park is located on the ground floor, with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th used for offices and living spaces.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

The architects’ offices are located on the 4th floor and the 5th is used as an apartment for one of the designers.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

More about Bangkok’s shophouses in Peter Nitsch’s photography project.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

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Shophouse Transformation by allzone

Photographs are by Piyawut Srisakul.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

The following information is from the architects:


Shophouse Transformation
Sukhumvit 49, Bangkok

Shophouse was the most common building typology of Bangkok during the process of urbanization of the city in the past century.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

However they are getting obsoleted nowadays because of city’s the transformation.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

Bangkok urban fabric is, nowadays, full of not-properly-utilized shophouses in most of the prime areas.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

The project is an attempt to experiment with shophouse typology’s transformation.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

The existing condition were two not-in-use units of shophouse in one of crowded area of Bangkok.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

Every floor is transformed into a working-living unit, a new typology for a small business or live-in studio, that is quite rare type in Bangkok.

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

While the ground level is completely open for parking and plants. (The 4th and the 5th floors are finally occupied by the architects).

Shophouse Transformation by allzone

The addition parts are the new facades on both front and back made out of the prefabricated concrete blocks – the most common and cheapest construction materials found in the market – which is also acting as a sun shading, a curtain for privacy as well as thief protection device.

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The facades also create ‘a breathing space’, the space between the big windows and concrete blocks, for smoking, relaxing in the outdoor, plantings as well as air condensing units and service.

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Project DATA

type: shophouse transformation to live-in studio units.
location: Sukhumvit 49, Bangkok
total area: 650 sq.m.
architect: allzone, co.,ltd. with Stefano Mirti
project team: Rachaporn Choochuey, Sorawit Klaimak, Isara Chanpoldee, Namkhang Anomarisi, Tharit Tossanaitada
engineer: cm one co.,ltd.
contractor: Terdsak Tassayarn

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Shophouses 4 x 8 m Bangkok by Peter NitschSumaré House by
Isay Weinfeld Arquitecto
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Belle Iloise House by Opus 5

Belle Iloise House by Opus 5

Paris studio Opus 5 Architects have completed this island house in Brittany, France, featuring a glazed façade with sections covered by stone screens.

Belle Iloise House by Opus 5

Called Belle Iloise House, the long building is divided in two by a glazed walkway.

Belle Iloise House by Opus 5

The walkway houses a glazed footbridge, which connects the bedrooms to the rest of the house.

Belle Iloise House by Opus 5

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Belle Iloise House by Opus 5

The following information is from the architects:


A NEW VERSION OF THE BELLE ILOISE HOUSE

n°1 NIGHT- HOUSE

This house has been designed by Opus 5 Architects, Bruno Decaris and Agnes Pontremoli. It is located on Belle-ile-en-Mer, the biggest island of Britany which is famous for its protected and wild lands. Some strict architectural rules have imposed the construction of a unique model of ‘neo-Britannic’ style: the same little houses are spread all over the island, with no proper architectural quality.

Belle Iloise House by Opus 5

n°2 ENTRANCE

The architects have proposed a contemporary and personal vision of the traditional model imposed by the severe regulations of the site. They took the challenge to transform the existing stereotype into a new up-to-date construction, by respecting the restricted architectural rules:

  • Slate roof with two slides at 45 degrees, gables and limited openings (max width 1,60 m)
  • Despite the fact that the house aimed to be harmoniously integrated in the landscape, the reasonable stylistic daring has created fierce debate.

Belle Iloise House by Opus 5

n°3 FACADE SEA (ARCHITECTURE PRICE OF Bretagne)

Spared volume: low and long proportions, limited height, with limited roof space. The roofing is built without salient element and only contains some panes of glass in the front.

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n°4 LIVING ROOM (ARCHITECTURE PRICE OF Bretagne)

The façades are split into two: an inner skin which is entirely glazed and partially hidden by schist panels, to release the ‘regulatory’ openings. Those stone ‘paravents’ create some magical lighting effects and reflexions inside the house.

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n°5 CAT LIVING ROOM

When the daylight fades, the glass panels light up and disappear to create a warm atmosphere: the house seems to float.

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n°6 ENTRANCE AND GLASS FOOTBRIDGE (ARCHITECTURE PRICE OF Bretagne)

The two portions of the main part of the house- living room and bedrooms, are connected by a transparent window screen and an entirely glass footbridge, enabling a clear sea view from both the inside and the outside.


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Ty Pren by
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Residence O by
Andrea Tognon
Apprentice Store by
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Núñez House by Adamo-Faiden

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

Argetinian studio Adamo-Faiden have installed a fabric tensile structure across the roof of this renovated apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

Called Núñez House, a tent-like structure between the walls at the top of the building creates a shaded covering over the terrace and swimming pool.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

A light airy social area has been created at the top of the house, where the kitchen, living and dining rooms all flow out to the terrace, separated from it by glazed walls.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

The rest of the apartment has been completely renovated, with the bedrooms spread over one floor and a rooftop swimming pool made from an old water tank.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

Photographs are by Cristobal Palma.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

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Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

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Núñez House.

The realized work for the Núñez family consisted of the transformation of an old apartment into a contemporary urban home.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

The project resumes four punctual operations that try to set a relation between the existent organization and the new function.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

The first one is the inversion of the separate uses of the two floors of the house.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

With the addition of a bathroom and a closet in place of the former living room, the goal of placing all bedrooms on first floor is achieved.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

Which, in turn, liberates the upper floor and its terrace for a functional common space for the whole family.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

The second intervention consists of occupation of half of the terrace with a light construction, which integrates the space with the kitchen, dining area, and living room.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

The rooftop of this space is used to create an extension that leads to the third operation: convertion of the water tank into an open-air swimming pool.

Nunez House by Adamo-Faiden

Finally, a shadow device incorporates to the project the irregularity of the walls from neighboring buildings, trapping a great volume of air and creating an specific atmosphere for the new house.

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House in Kodaira by
Suppose Design Office
Origami by
Architects Collective
Casas Lago by
Adamo-Faiden

Bar Guru Bar by KLab Architecture

Greek architects KLab Architecture have completed an extension to a bar in Athens with a facade clad in rusted steel. (more…)