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Bureau de Change enlivens Trace apartment block with pink concrete panels

January 13, 2026 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio Bureau de Change has updated a 1980s apartment block in London, revitalising its facade with pink concrete panels made from demolition waste. Named Trace, the building in Euston was revamped for developer HGG to provide five apartments across its six storeys, which include two floors added as part of the project. Bureau de Change

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HCCH Studio creates doughnut-shaped pavilion on Chinese mountain

January 13, 2026 Christina Yao 0

Architecture studio HCCH has designed a doughnut-shaped viewpoint and pavilion in Huizhou, China, featuring oval openings and a concrete facade with a bamboo texture. Located on Mount Luofu, the site occupies a platform that extends from a sharp turn of the highway and was previously used as a buffer zone and parking area. Named Resting

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Terracotta tones define community centre in Finland by Nervin Architecture

January 9, 2026 Jon Astbury 0

A terracotta-toned palette of concrete, brickwork and tiles nods to Lappeenranta’s distinctive 1980s civic architecture at Sammontalo, a mixed-use community building in Finland by local studio Nervin Architecture. Located in Lappeenranta’s Sammonlahti neighbourhood, the 12,000-square-metre complex brings together childcare facilities, a school, a public library and sports and youth spaces under one roof. Sammontalo replaces

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Tropical hardwood and reinforced concrete form House in Minami-Azabu

January 6, 2026 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architect Keiji Ashizawa saw the planning process as “solving a puzzle” when creating this house in central Tokyo, which features wooden louvres for privacy. Designed for a couple and their three children, the three-storey House in Minami-Azabu – named after the neighbourhood in which it’s located – sits next to a residential street on its

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Arquitectura-G organises minimalist Spanish house around central courtyard

December 2, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish studio Arquitectura-G has completed Patio House, a minimalist white home in Costa Brava that opens onto a central courtyard through folding timber shutters. Partially sunken into a sloping site overlooking the small bay of Aiguablava, the single-storey home was designed by Arquitectura-G to have a “simple and clear” geometry, defined by a slim concrete

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Toro Arquitectos designs ring-shaped Ciales Kindergarten in Puerto Rico

December 1, 2025 Dan Howarth 0

An outdoor play area sits at the heart of this ring-shaped concrete kindergarten in Puerto Rico, designed by local studio Toro Arquitectos to create “a safe, engaging, and functional environment” for children. Ciales Kindergarten replaces a former funeral home, which was transformed by Toro Arquitectos and extended with a circular structure alongside it. The “unremarkable”

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Plastic Box store is “a brutalist art gallery disguised as a supermarket”

November 28, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Architecture practice Minimal Studio has unveiled Plastic Box, a supermarket in Mallorca with a minimalist exposed-concrete interior and a ceiling of 1,200 plastic crates. The fully functioning store, located in Mallorca’s Port of Pollensa, was conceived by the studio as a “raw concrete envelope”. “We reduced the structure to its essence, removing all previous finishes

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Mecozzi Verdini connects Italian villa to concrete annexe using red-steel walkway

November 26, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A red-steel walkway links this 1960s villa in Italy’s Marche region to a concrete-framed annexe called Annesso Rosso, completed by local architecture studio Mecozzi Verdini. Annesso Rosso, or Red Annexe, is named after the deep red colour of its painted steelwork and replaces a cluster of disused agricultural sheds at the back of the home

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Kia unveils new EV5 at educational academy surrounded by courtyards and water gardens

November 24, 2025 Amina Amber 0

Car brand Kia has presented its EV5 model at an educational complex in Gyeonggi province in the latest instalment of our video series pairing its electric vehicles with contemporary South Korean architecture. The EV5 model expands Kia’s electric line-up with a fully electric mid-sized SUV designed for everyday and family use. The EV5 introduces

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Courtyard acts as “spatial and emotional nucleus” of Indian house by Renesa

November 20, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Sweeping concrete and brick walls wrap a circular, water-filled courtyard at the heart of The Sanctum, a low-slung home in Punjab, India, designed by local architecture studio Renesa. Spread across a three-acre site in Amritsar, the 1,115-square-metre dwelling comprises a cluster of geometric volumes formed with red brick and concrete. The Sanctum’s circular courtyard and

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