Articles by Eleanor Gibson

Toronto flower shop by MSDS Studio features pale walls and linoleum-covered furniture

May 7, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Speckled linoleum furniture, pale walls and minimal shelving provide a neutral backdrop for flower arrangements and plants at this Toronto florist by MSDS studio. The Canadian studio overhauled the store to create a space for selling flowers, house plants and accessories at ground level, and a mezzanine studio where the florist can create flower arrangements. Working to a tight budget and with a

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Colonnade-like glazing fronts Birmingham house extension by Intervention Architecture

May 6, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Glass doors are set into arched frames resembling a colonnade in this extension to a Victorian-era house in Birmingham, England, which Intervention Architecture designed for a choir singer. Local studio Intervention Architecture was asked to update the house in the suburb of Moseley to provide the singer’s family with an open-plan living, kitchen and dining room in an extension that references the heritage

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Snøhetta’s prefab Gapahuk cabin references a traditional Norwegian mountain shelter

May 4, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Snøhetta has unveiled a prefabricated cabin with a twisted roof that offers protection in harsh weather conditions. Called Gapahuk, Snøhetta designed the prefab cabin for Rindalshytter, a Norwegian producer of leisure homes. The cabin is designed to be adaptable to various locations and weather conditions. The roof folds down lower on one side to offer protection from strong

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Silver & Co transforms London garden shed into multifunctional studio for artist couple

May 4, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

A sunken bed and folding ping-pong table feature in this studio converted from a derelict garden shed for a pair of artists in west London. London-based studio Silver & Co renovated and refurbished the garden shed for a sculptor, a painter and their child, creating a self-contained studio that can also be used as a gallery or a guest bedroom. Most of the

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McLaren Excell contrasts smoked oak with white panelling for London home in a former office

May 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

White ribbed panelling provides a neutral backdrop for smoked-oak furnishings and marble bathrooms in this former west London office, which McLaren Excell has converted into a family home. London-based McLaren Excell completely overhauled the two-storey Rylett Crescent building in London’s Shepherds Bush, which was originally an industrial laundry facility before it was converted into offices. The architects

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McLaren Excell contrasts smoked oak with white panelling for London home in a former office

May 3, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

White ribbed panelling provides a neutral backdrop for smoked-oak furnishings and marble bathrooms in this former west London office, which McLaren Excell has converted into a family home. London-based McLaren Excell completely overhauled the two-storey Rylett Crescent building in London’s Shepherds Bush, which was originally an industrial laundry facility before it was converted into offices. The architects

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Box-framed louvres shade windows of concrete house in Tel Aviv

May 2, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

This concrete house in Tel Aviv by Bar Orian Architects features vertical louvres that can be either rotated to filter light or slid open to reveal the windows behind. Designed for a couple and their three children, the residence is located in a neighbourhood in the north the city called Affeka. Tel-Aviv based Bar Orian Architects, led by Tal Bar Orian,

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Steimle Architekten completes “crystal-like” concrete house in Germany

May 2, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Angular, board-marked concrete walls offer a variety of views from the pared-back spaces inside this house designed by Steimle Architekten in Tübingen, Germany. Stuttgart-based Steimle Architekten designed the three-storey family house across a split-level site in Pliezhausen – a village 30 kilometres south of Stuttgart – as a contrast to its neighbours. Described as “crystal-shaped”, the E20 residence features facades angled to offer residents a range

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Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti builds wooden house with chimney-shaped skylight

May 1, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

In a play on Slovenia’s traditional wooden barns, Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti has extruded the shape of a chimney along the top of this house to create a continuous skylight. Ljubljana studio Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti designed the 830-square-metre Chimney House for a couple living in the Slovenian town Logatec. Clad in oiled larch panels, the gabled residence bears many similarities to local wooden

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Kris Provoost photographs the most flamboyant architecture of China’s building boom

April 30, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

OMA’s trouser-shaped CCTV tower and Herzog & de Meuron’s Bird’s Nest stadium feature in this photo series by Kris Provoost, which documents the “weird architecture” China has tried to ban. Architect Kris Provoost, who lives and works in Shanghai, spent seven years creating The Beautified China photoset. In it he captures some of the more unusual projects created by world-renowned architecture practices

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