Betty Owoo

Akin Atelier houses Gallery Shop at Sydney Modern in “translucent bubble”

November 9, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Curved resin walls define this retail space, which architecture studio Akin Atelier has created for the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Designed by Akin Atelier with surfboard designer Hayden Cox, the Gallery Shop is located in the entrance pavilion of the gallery that was recently completed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning

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IJboulevard is an underwater bike park in Amsterdam

November 8, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Dutch studio VenhoevenCS Architecture + Urbanism has completed IJboulevard, an underwater bicycle park for Amsterdam Central Station in the Netherlands. The facility provides underwater parking for 4,000 bicycles, as well as a pedestrian boulevard above ground with panoramic views over the River IJ. Commissioned by the Municipality of Amsterdam, VenhoevenCS Architecture + Urbanism sought to

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RAPA combines thatch and stone at lakeside holiday home in Hungary

November 6, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

A cantilevered form with thatched surfaces defines Summer House, a holiday home designed by architecture studio RAPA on the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary. RAPA used materials sourced locally in Hungary to create the three-storey dwelling, which was commissioned by a family who wanted an intimate and cosy summer residence. Its design reinterprets local building

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CRÜ transforms public laundry into La Clara house in Barcelona

November 1, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Spanish architecture studio CRÜ has remodelled an old public laundry into a house and studio for a couple in west Barcelona. Called La Clara, the project in the district of Les Corts is shortlisted in the house renovation category of the Dezeen Awards 2023. To reconfigure the old ground floor laundry into a home, CRÜ

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Architectural Pioneering Consultants uses local materials for school in Tanzania

October 31, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Intersecting blockwork walls and an overhanging zinc roof characterise Simba Vision Montessori School in rural Tanzania by local studio Architectural Pioneering Consultants. Located in Ngabobo Village between Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro, the two-storey school exists to support members of the Maasai tribes who are slowly shifting their traditional semi-nomadic lifestyles to more permanent settlements.

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George Fisher creates modular social space for homeless hostel in London

October 7, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Architectural designer George Fisher has created an outdoor social space for Project Malachi, a homeless hostel in London, using the modular U-Build system developed by Studio Bark. The project was initiated by Fisher after observing that the 42-unit hostel in Ilford was in need of outdoor space during the Covid-19 pandemic and later built in

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Bloom Architecture uses handmade cement blocks to decorate Cambodian houses

September 28, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Handmade blocks made of grey and red cement define the facades of Small Houses, a collection of homes that Cambodian studio Bloom Architecture created as a “haven” from the bustling streets of Phnom Penh. Located in a compact urban area in a historic part of the Cambodian capital, the homes are accessed by a narrow

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WillemsenU submerges house under the ground in the Netherlands

September 27, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Dutch studio WillemsenU has completed a house that is partially buried underground to blend in with its rural surroundings in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Appropriately called The House Under the Ground, the home is designed by WillemsenU to “enhance the beauty” of its site and act as a retreat for the couple who own it. Its

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Ochre-tinted precast concrete forms Nightingale housing by Kennedy Nolan

September 22, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Australian studio Kennedy Nolan has completed Leftfield, an affordable housing block with a “playful” form of pigmented precast concrete panels in the Brunswick neighbourhood of Melbourne. Part of the Nightingale Village development, the block by Kennedy Nolan is an example of a typology created under the Nightingale development model, which aims to design residential projects

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Spridd slots T-shaped house into rocky hillside in Stockholm

September 18, 2023 Betty Owoo 0

Raked concrete covers this T-shaped house, which architecture studio Spridd has slotted into a sloped site surrounded by trees on the island of Nacka in Stockholm. Appropriately called T House, the home was created by Spridd for a family, along with a separate guest apartment for an elderly relative. To minimise excavation of the steeply

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