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Category: Architecture Tags: Courtyard architecture, Landscape architecture, PAR, USA, USA architecture, White
American studio Platform for Architecture + Research has designed the Desert House located in La Quinta, USA. We aimed to contain land disturbance by siting the villas within their natural topography as much as possible. We also developed more compact building footprints by increasing outdoor living spaces that take advantage of the temperate, sunny climate. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, LEED, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture
In Portland, Oregon, the Cyan/PDX Building by THA Architecture and GBD Architects has recently opened its doors to offer urban residents a new mode of high density, sustainable living in the heart of downtown. As a LEED Gold-certified high rise, Cyan meets a growing demand for an environmentally conscious, affordable urban lifestyle. Through strategic detailing [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Courtyard architecture, Kitchen appliances, Refurbishment / Extension, Tamir Addadi Architecture, UK, White
London-based studio Tamir Addadi Architecture recently has completed the extension and alterations to a private house. The main aim of the project was to create a sense of unity between the back garden and the house, allowing nature to play a significant part in the daily activities of the family. The site of the project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, OneByNine, Perforated, Poland, Workplace
“WEBART” Office is OneByNine studio‘s latest completed project situated in Warsaw’s Grochow area, Poland. The Grochow area is a multifunctional district with various functions: industrial zones, multi family housing, recreational parks and sport facilities. The building is located on Kamionkowska street, among its specific mid-scale housing and office surroundings. The longer side is situated along [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: A-cero, Courtyard architecture, Landscape architecture, Spain, White
Designed by Spainish architectural studio A-Cero, a dwelling of generous proportions developed over a single storey to facilitate the indoor-outdoor connection and to make the most of the environment in which it stands. Surrounded by meadows, tree groves, chestnut, pine and oak trees and wildlife represented by stags, wild boar and roe deer, the edifice [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, Green architecture, Hoz Fontan, Random pattern, Skyscrapers, Spain
Spanish architectural firm Hoz Fontan Arquitectos recently has completed the Zaisa Office Tower in Irun, Spain. Located close to the border between Spain and France, the new office tower is the last building of the Zaisa transportation hub in Irun, and houses Zaisa’s headquarters and rental office space. The tower is inserted in front of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare Tags: Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Henning Larsen architects
Danish architectural practice Henning Larsen architects has designed the Hospice Søndergaard. The purpose of Hospice Søndergaard was to offer terminal patients as much quality of life and dignity as possible in the concluding part of life. The physical surroundings should be dignifying and inspiring – regardless if you are a patient, nurse or relative. Henning [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture, Courtyard architecture, Stair, Za Bor architects
«House of mister R.» is a clear manifestation of the ‘aesthetic of chaos’, which Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev are so fond of discussing with colleagues and journalists. But ‘chaos’ has a limited presence here. «The accidental rearrangement and (self) organization of form» (as the architects say about their method) turns out to be the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential Tags: Australia NewZealand, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Green architecture, Plazibat + Jemmott
Queensland Courtyard House is a recent residential competition submission by Brisbane, Australia based architecture office Plazibat & Jemmott Architects. + Project description courtesy Plazibat + Jemmott architects Concept The intent of this project is to go beyond the pragmatics of the proposed program and investigate a new potential model for suburban housing. This model takes [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: BIG, Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Waterfront architecture
8 House by Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has been completed recently. Celebrating its third project with the same development team in the maturing neighborhood of Orestad, the construction of the 61,000 m2 8 House has come to an end, allowing people to bike all the way from the street up to its [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Courtyard architecture, South Africa, studioMAS
JoziRows in Forest Town, Johannesburg, is one of the latest residential building designed by South African office studioMAS architects + urban designers. The design was based on the ideas in the Courtyards in Oxford project. The project aims to achieve the spacious house with the feeling of safety with openness. It consists of 4 “lock-up-and-go” [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, designstudio, Indonesia, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture
The Indonesian architectural practice designstudio has designed the Green House (Rumah Hijau) which was developed from a concept of a modern house that interact fully with the surrounding environment and derived from ‘green concept understanding’ to optimize the design approaches with major concern from two aspects which are electricity management with optimum natural light & [...]
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