4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (248+ words) the neighborhood is characterized by temples, apartment buildings, and small parks | all images ©Daici Ano rough textured bricks form the lower volume, while the upper volume is wrapped in a lattice of GRC heavily textured bricks custom-made in Hekinan, Aichi…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (319+ words) atelier bonnet architectes’ two-level cabin at the Jan Michalski Foundation | image by Leo Fabrizio wrapped in a steel and glass web | image by Leo Fabrizio Jean-Gilles Décosterd’s writer’s cabin | image by Leo Fabrizio steel panels carry a line from Henry…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (354+ words) Set on a hill within the rural landscape of Kobe, Japan, Tsukumo Kiln by Dept. + OAAA is a ceramic studio surrounded by fields and mountains. Conceived as a working space for ceramic production, the 80.32-sqm building responds to its open…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (124+ words) Located on a compact 33 sqm site in Kagurazaka, Tokyo, this four-story wooden residence reinterprets the traditional Japanese machiya as a vertical dwelling. Designed by Takumi Wakui + Riho Wakui Architects as a home for an architect couple, the project examines how…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (256+ words) Situated on the ground and first floors of a traditional 1890 Amsterdam townhome, this dual-level apartment features a classic deep, transversal layout with a private inner courtyard. Kubota & Bachmann Architects reimagined the residence to transform its deep, narrow proportions into a…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (39+ words) The communal oven against the rugged mountain In harmony with the surrounding existing buildings The interplay of materials The flames glowing through the stainless steel shell Quietly nestled within nature The chimney, like a spaceship landed in the village...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (109+ words) images © Takuya Seki the Circularity Cabin is designed to relocate with its residents once a planned road expansion reaches the site standard timber from Japanese home centers forms the two-story structure removable sawara cypress boards extend the reversible construction system…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (142+ words) a walkable terrain above the factory floor | images courtesy of Luca Fontana blurring the line between civic infrastructure and industry dynamic green roof acts as a canvas, capturing and channeling heavy rainfall stepping into the future of timber hands-on learning…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (82+ words) first prize | image by Afroditi Ioannidou, Vladimir Gligorovski Across the three schemes, shade and self-construction emerge repeatedly as architectural tools, though the first-prize proposal makes its clearest move by enlarging a local domestic type into a piece of shared village…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (257+ words) Designboom keep up with our daily & weekly stories Jae K Kim revisits lost Timbercraft of East Asia At a moment when timber is once again reshaping global architectural practice, Timbercraft: Lost Tectonics from East Asia revisits the enduring legacy of…...