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September 30, 2017

334 Sumatrastraat / Bláha Architecture + Design

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Architects: Bláha Architecture + Design
Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
Lead Architects: Annemieke Bláha
Area: 330.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Maurice Mikkers

< p dir="ltr"> From the architect. For its latest project, emerging Dutch practice Bláha Architecture + Design has completed a four-storey designed-to-rent townhouse in The Hague, the Netherlands. The project was commissioned in 2014 by a private client that wanted to redevelop an existing property for investment purposes. 334 Sumatrastraat is located on a typical 19th-century street of middle class housing in Archipel, The Hague.

The project transforms a dilapidated 1880-terraced house into a home that can be let out as a whole house, or as two separate apartments with their own front doors. To create a generous space Bláha has made a number of key moves, including converting the roof into a bedroom, adding a courtyard garden, and extending the property by

September 29, 2017

House | Office / José Castro Caldas

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  <li> Architects: <strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/office/jose-castro-caldas">José Castro Caldas</a></strong><br /> </li>
  <li> Location: <strong>Lisbon, Portugal</strong><br /> </li>
  <li> Area: <strong>40.0 m2</strong><br /> </li>
  <li> Project Year: <strong>2017</strong><br /> </li>
  <li> Photographs: <strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/photographer/merces-tomaz-gomes">Mercês Tomaz Gomes</a></strong><br /> </li>

Technical Support: Alexandra Paio, Barbara Varela, Maria João de Oliveira, João Sousa.

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From the architect. In order to continue exploring the interlude between Architecture and woodcraft - In which the Architect builds his own work, I arranged this 40 m2 studio. An opportunity to study / test within this space that would become my Home | Office and set up a laboratory of Architecture, where I could try out both space organization and execution solutions in detail. The hypothesis of resolving the adjustments, reconsidering badly anticipated decisions, imperfections as a carpenter does with his pieces, with the balance of who projected to solve the inherent deviations of the construction processes, here in a scale of Architecture, a kind of revivalism of the Arts and Crafts movement... To inhabit it, al-lows me to

September 29, 2017

Mediterranean Villa / Architectural office TOBIS-inzenjering

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Architects: Architectural office TOBIS-inzenjering
Location: Pula, Croatia
Lead Architects: Natasa Jozipovic
Area: 328.0 m2
Project Year: 2015

From the architect. Croatia-based architecture studio TOBIS Engineering recently finished Villa Martinuzzi, a gorgeous Mediterranean villa located in Pula, Croatia.The house was dating back to 1890.

New owner had one simple request for his villa, with not so simple detail; a living space that is combination of traditional and modern, but designed without forcing this popular “let’s build old” style.

Ground floor with 45 cm thick stone walls was imagined as a traditional base for the contemporary first floor. Ground floor features modern kitchen, original staircase, bathroom, bedroom and living room with the dining room. Part of

September 29, 2017

Kartasan House / Atelier Vens Vanbelle

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Architects: Atelier Vens Vanbelle
Location: Ghent, Belgium
Lead Architects: Dries Vens, Maarten Vanbelle
Area: 190.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Tim Van de Velde

From the architect. The original building consisted of two floors and an attic, plus a courtyard that is separated from the street by a garden wall. The inner structure of the house was in a poor condition and the rooms were too small, so it was decided to keep only the facade and build a complete new structure in the house.

An oak tree trunk was placed as new support structure in the middle of the pentagonal plan. The new upper floors were hung in a spiral movement between the existing exterior walls and this central support. This led to an open interior space without interior walls in the living

September 28, 2017

House in Matsuyacho / Shogo ARATANI Architect & Associates

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Architects: Shogo ARATANI Architect & Associates
Location: Neyagawa, Japan
Area: 120.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Shigeo Ogawa

Consultant: S3 Associates inc.
General Contractor: IFA inc.
Structural System: timber flame
Site Area: 119.68m2
Building Area: 71.63m2

From the architect. This property is located in a densely developed residential neighborhood of Osaka. The client had lived on the site since childhood, so when he commissioned us to design a new house there, we began by soliciting extensive input from him because he of course knew the characteristics of the site intimately. Following these discussions, we decided we wanted to build a house that would enable him to discover new things within this familiar place.

The property is boxed in by neighboring houses. The space between the structures is just wide enough for a person to pass through, and

September 28, 2017

House in Matsuyacho / Shogo ARATANI Architect & Associates

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Architects: Shogo ARATANI Architect & Associates
Location: Neyagawa, Japan
Area: 120.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Shigeo Ogawa

Consultant: S3 Associates inc.
General Contractor: IFA inc.
Structural System: timber flame
Site Area: 119.68m2
Building Area: 71.63m2

The property is boxed in by neighboring houses. The space between the structures is just wide enough for a person to pass through, and

September 28, 2017

Néaucité Housing / Atelier Krauss Architecture

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Architects: Atelier Krauss Architecture
Location: 30 Rue du Port, 93200 Saint-Denis, France
Design Team: Itamar Krauss, Ana Burdiel, Elena Santin, Aimie Goudalier, Antonia de Gatis
Area: 2930.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Frédéric Delangle

General Engeneering: Facea
Susteinability Engineering: Transfaire
Clients: Groupe Quartus / VEFA for I3F

Location and program
The project is located at the entrance of the Zac Alstom Confluence in Saint-Denis city.

Site Plan

It is a triangular plot bordered by 3 streets and a public garden. The site benefits from a unique corner situation which marks the entrance of the new district and participates in the definition of the "Skyline" on the main street.

The program offers 44 units of social housing. These functional and luminous apartments are distributed by two distinct stair-cases and have different typologies and surfaces.

The urban fault
From

September 27, 2017

F75 Bar / AHL architects

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Architects: AHL architects
Location: 2 Võ Thị Sáu, Phú Hội, Tp. Huế, Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam
Design Team: Dao Hung, Le Hoang, Phi Dinh Cuong , Vu Van Cuong (CS)
Ahl A&A Team : Hung Dao, Hoang Le, Phi Dinh Cuong
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: HoangLe Photography

From the architect. This is the first-ever brief AHL received to design a non-residential space. It was a challenge but also a project full of excitement, with over a year of project implementation.

We approached Hue Imperial City with our own view of it, a place where the inner intrinsic energy encapsulates more potential than its external manifestation.

We aimed to present to Hue a building with a simple exterior encasing a sophisticated combination of corten steel, concrete and brick within its interior space.

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September 27, 2017

Bellport House / Toshihiro Oki architect

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Architects: Toshihiro Oki architect
Location: Bellport, United States
Lead Architects: Toshihiro Oki, Jared Diganci, Jen Wood, Carolina Ihle
Area: 446.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Dean Kaufman

Structural And Mechanical Engineer: Condon engineering, P.C.

From the architect. This weekend home, built on the south shore of Long Island, is envisioned as a social platform for the owner, his family and many friends and guests who come to visit and enjoy themselves outside of New York City. The Entry, Living, Dining and Kitchen are the central core where the social activity mixes. Large sliding glass doors open these areas out to the exterior, allowing people to flow easily between inside and outside. The pool, waterfront and various landscapes and courtyards around the house provide multiple settings for various activities. People can meander as the daylight shifts throughout and around the house over the

September 27, 2017

Sino-Italian Ecological and Energy Efficient Building / Mario Cucinella Architects

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Architects: Mario Cucinella Architects
Location: 30 Shuangqing Rd, Haidian Qu, Beijing Shi, China
Project Leader: Federico Butera
Design Team: Mario Cucinella, Elisabeth Francis, Giulio Altieri (site architect), Natalino Roveri (model maker)
Area: 20000.0 m2
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Daniele Domenicali

Engineering : Favero & Milan Ingegneria – Ing. Sandro Favero, Ing. Federico Zaggia, Ing. Giampaolo Lenarduzzi, Ing. Luca Nicolini. China Architecture Design & Research Group
Construction Management : Impregilo
Client: Italian Ministry for Environment and Territory. Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China

From the architect. Born out from a joint venture between the Italian and Chinese Governments, SIEEB was built on the campus of Tsinghua University, it occupies an area of 20,000 m2 and hosts the Sino-Italian centre of education, training and research for the protection of environment and energy conservation.

The

September 26, 2017

Little House. Big City / Office of Architecture

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Architects: Office of Architecture
Location: Brooklyn, United States
Design Team: Aniket Shahane, Principal; Joshua Eager, Ivan Kostic, Edward Simpson, Valentin Bansac, Stephen Maher
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Rafael Gamo, Matthew Williams

General Contractor: Montestbuild, Inc.
Structural Engineer: Blue Sky Design
Code Consultants / Expeditors: James Anzalone; Sol Building Consultants
Millwork: Matthew Gribbon
Steel Stair: Brooklyn Metal Fab

From the architect. The owners of this 11-foot-wide row house in Brooklyn were faced with a conundrum that many young families in New York eventually confront: the possibility of sacrificing location for space. After living in the house for eight years, the pair – an architect and jewelry designer – chose to expand in order to make room for their two growing children and remain in the Brooklyn neighborhood they had come to admire. The original 2-story, 1000SF home was completely gutted and extended to 4

September 25, 2017

Casa AR / ARCO Arquitectura Contemporánea

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Architects: ARCO Arquitectura Contemporánea
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Architects In Charge: José Lew, Bernardo Lew
Area: 600.0 m2
Project Year: 2015
Photographs: Jaime Navarro

From the architect. Casa AR is the result of remodeling and extending a residence —in a 1,000 sq m lot constructed in the 80´s— located on the west side of Mexico City. The spaces in the original project had the potential that tilted the balance on keeping most of them and working on making the modifications and extensions necessary for the new program. The public areas had ample spaces, but much reduced ones on the private areas; what lead to a mayor intervention in order to generate a wider opening and a clear visual communication among all the areas in the house.

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The house is off plumb at the center of an irregular form lot surrounded completely by

September 25, 2017

Helen Street House / mw|works architecture + design

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Architects: mw|works architecture + design
Location: Seattle, United States
Lead Architect: Eric Walters, Steve Mongillo
Design Team: Suzanne Stefan
Landscape Design : Wittman Estes (Matt Wittman and Jody Estes)
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Andrew Pogue

General Contractor: Treebird Construction (Ian Jones)
Structural Engineer: PCS (Jim Harris)

From the architect. The clients were living on a rural property east of Seattle but found themselves drawn back to the growing vibrancy and culture of the city. They loved the peaceful setting of their old home with its quietness and easy indoor/outdoor living but it was oversized for two people and two small dogs. The new project would distill their way of living into a smaller footprint, specifically tailored to their tastes and activities.

Helen Street is on the north edge of the Madison Valley neighborhood abutting the fringe of the Washington Park Arboretum,

September 25, 2017

House D3 / Barclay & Crousse

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Architects: Barclay & Crousse
Location: Cercado de Lima, Peru
Architects In Charge: Sandra Barclay, Jean Pierre Crousse
Area: 856.0 m2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Gonzalo Cáceres

Architect Assistant: Juan Miguel Chinchay
Structure: Carlos Salcedo
Builder: PADIC SA

From the architect. The project explores the complex relationship between intimacy, domesticity, spatial expansion and transparency, inspired on the traditional limean houses, which respond to an introverted scheme where the street façade, opaque and abstract, give place to a lively courtyard in the interior through a single space called zaguán.

In this project, the apparent opacity and heaviness of the house, seen from the street, is transformed in fluid, transparent and lighted spaces once we get in the interior of the house and the interior garden, treated as a green patio. A multiple storey space defines the threshold where intimacy comes to be.

September 25, 2017

Villa RR / Reitsema and Partners Architects

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Architects: Reitsema and Partners Architects
Location: Rijssen, The Netherlands
Lead Architects: Theo Reitsema, Stephanie Weitering
Design Team: Jacob Kunst, Dennis Weerink, Haroen Martens, Tim de Graag
Interior Design: Reitsema & partners interiors
Landscape Design: Landlab, studio voor landschapsarchitectuur
Area: 276.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Ronald Tilleman

Structural Engineers: Lucassen bouwconstructies B.V.
Contractor: Bouwbedrijf Hulshof
Installation Engineers: Loohuis Meulenbeld, Almelo
Landscaping: Van Eden Hoveniers
Interior Construction: JRS interieurbouw
Text: Merel Pit
Translation: Laura Martz

From the architect. How do you transform a 50-year-old villa into a comfortable, contemporary, sustainable home? To find the answer, the architect Theo Reitsema and the interior designer Stephanie Weitering, who are married to each other, spent a year living in a 1967-built house in the Dutch community of Rijssen, looking, listening and feeling. They and their two young children settled in the villa, set in

September 24, 2017

P.K. House / Junsekino Architect and Design

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Architects: Junsekino Architect and Design
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Area: 450.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Spaceshift Studio

From the architect. P.K. House is a single house for the family of five locating within the developed housing on suburban area of Bangkok. With an identical shape and size of plot, an architect chose to specify first the open space in order to give the building some sense of uniqueness which this space will be used for relaxing, exercising and planting. In addition, the family members can breathe in the natural air as well as ease their stress and enjoy the scenery of nature outside.

The interior space including living area and dining room are designed to be shared space for serving all the members on their joint activities with a double space in some area making this space

September 23, 2017

The Exchange / Oyler Wu Collaborative

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Courtesy of Oyler Wu Collaborative

Architects: Oyler Wu Collaborative
Location: Columbus, IN, United States
Design Team: Oyler Wu Collaborative: Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, Hans Koesters, Lung Chi Chang, Harrison Steinbuch, Irvin Shaifa, Clint Johnson, Andy Magner, Dongwoo Suk, Andrea Sanchez, Hsiyuan Pan, Thomas Lanham, Emilijia Landsbergis, Suhan Na, Ibrahim Ibrahim, Tucker van Leuwen-Hall
Engineering: Nous Engineering, Matthew Melnyk, Katahdin Engineering LLC, Elizabeth Woolf
Project Year: 2017

From the architect. The Exchange sits within the plaza adjacent to the Irwin Conference Center by Eero Saarinen (formerly the Irwin Union Bank) and makes use of the three existing canopies that formerly served the drive-through bank tellers. The design challenge was to “activate” the space while relating a contemporary design concept to the historic building and existing site conditions.

Oyler Wu's research into Eero Saarinen's oeuvre, along with analysis of

September 23, 2017

IKC de Geluksvogel / UArchitects

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East side. Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

Architects: UArchitects
Location: Maastricht, The Netherlands
Architect In Charge: Misak Terzibasiyan
Area: 2100.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

Contractor: BMV
Consultant: ZRi
Construction Consultant: Castermans
Hvac Consultant: K+ adviesgroep
Environment Consultant: CNME

East side playground. Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

< p dir="ltr"> From the architect. This a unique sustainable and digital school in the Netherlands.

Two existing schools in two neighbouring locations in Maastricht are merging into a new school on a new location in that city. This particular location was chosen to strengthen the weak social structure of the two neighbourhoods and to introduce a new digital education system to learn also more about the environment, nature and sustainability.

Even the playground outside has different zones to help children (re)discover nature and explore their world by means of experiments or to build and test

South side. Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

Ground floor open classes. Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

mainstair ground floor . Image © Daan Dijkmeijer and UArchitects

September 22, 2017

Weinfelden Fire Station / kit

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Architects: kit
Location: 8570 Weinfelden, Switzerland
Area: 2260.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Ruedi Walti, Pit Brunner

General Contractor: Implenia Schweiz | Frauenfeld TG
Cost Planner: Trunz + Wirth | Uzwil SG
Landscape Architect: Paul Rutishauser | Arbon TG
Structural Engineer: Schnetzer Puskas | Zurich
Timber And Fire Protection Engineer: Josef Kolb | Romanshorn TG
Façade Engineer: gkp | Aadorf TG
Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, Sanitation And Electricity Engineers: 3-plan | Kreuzlingen TG
Building Acoustics And Physics: 3-plan | Winterthur ZH

From the architect. In 2013, the political commune of Weinfelden arranged an open architectural competition for a new single building to house the fire brigade and the Samaritan emergency services; their resources had up until then been distributed over various locations. Out of the 58 participants, it was the «Grisu» project by kit that was the winner. The jury praised the

September 22, 2017

Millgrove House / Sanam Samanian

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Architects: Sanam Samanian
Location: Toronto, Canada
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Toms + McNally Design

Structural: Blackwell Engineering
Mechanical: mcCallum Sather
Electrical: Keith Seguin Engineering
Landscape: Adesso Design
Millwork (Kitchen, Bathroom & Dining Room): Cranberry Hill Kitchens \ Ellen Preston
Septic: Amec Foster Wheeler
Contractors: Keith Strub Construction (concrete), Entz Brothers Construction (carpentry), CMS Electric (electrical), G&A; Masonry (masonry), Vipond (sprinklers), Cranberry Hill Kitchens (millwork), Shademaster Landscaping (Landscape), Cardi Construction (Earthwork), Praxy (zinc siding), Inline Fibreglass (windows), Barber Glass (glass guards), Caswell Maintenance (roof), Green Method (mechanical).

From the architect. For Toms + McNally Design, Architecture is a response to context. Millgrove House, located in rural Hamilton, sits on a property that contained an abandoned apple orchard, and a hay-growing farm for local use. Situated between mature treelines and forests, the site is gently rolling. As a result, the design strategy