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The Blue Ice headquarters seem right at home at the base of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps. Kengo Kuma’s choice to use raw, unskinned oak panels in the exterior design serve as an homage to the surrounding...

  A 60s bungalow in Sydney was transformed using a slatted wood screen that controls light and gives the inhabitants plenty of privacy. Sydney-based Bijl Architects were charged with updating the dark, closed-in space...

The house is located in the lush landscape of the Chilean midwest. Its pinwheel layout comprises four winged volumes that house different functions. The clean lines of the design and logical spatial organization aim to provide...

The manufacturing process for Thermowood improves the stability and biological durability of wood, according to the company's website. It also improves its insulation capacity, with high temperatures removing resin from the...

The big surprise of this year World Expo is the striking entry of Uruguay. Participating for the first time in a Universal Exposition with its own national pavilion designed by Javier Díaz Charquero, an Architect of the...

Have you ever seen a building built of thousands of recycled apple crates? That’s the case of the Polish Pavilion at Expo 2015 developed by the Warsaw office 2pm studio...

Have you ever seen a building built of thousands of recycled apple crates? That’s the case of the Polish Pavilion at Expo 2015 developed by the Warsaw office 2pm studio...

Design firm jones | haydu designed the interior of a small cafe in downtown San Francisco simultaneously revitalizing the stretch of sidewalk in front of it, which has been neglected for over twenty years...

Most university campus buildings are hard on the outside, using brick, concrete, metal and stone to create their familiar facades. The people at Kengo Kuma wanted to break away from that to make a building that felt soft...

Most university campus buildings are hard on the outside, using brick, concrete, metal and stone to create their familiar facades. The people at Kengo Kuma wanted to break away from that to make a building that felt soft...

The building accommodates a beauty salon on the ground floor, while the upper floor houses the office of the owner's property company. Red cedar covers the volumes that frame the glazed frontages. Even the building's structure...

The building accommodates a beauty salon on the ground floor, while the upper floor houses the office of the owner's property company. Red cedar covers the volumes that frame the glazed frontages. Even the building's structure...

The building is located in Canada’s Mont-Tremblant National Park and consists of three parts: an amphitheater, a space for service facilities and a discovery zone...

The house features a spatial hierarchy that favors areas where its residents spend most time. Primary living spaces have double height ceilings, while auxiliary rooms occupy less space and have lower ceilings. In order to...

Cubo Arkitecter designed the buildings to reflect the history and heritage of the port and the local granite industry. Established at the end of the 19th Century, Hammerhavn exported materials to Hamburg and Copenhagen, and...