Collaborate Disseminate
The latest tiny house design to come from French firm Baluchon measures just 6 m (20 ft) in length. However, despite this compact size, the Milanda packs everything necessary to serve as a comfortable full-time residence to its owner in northern France… Continue reading Baluchon squeezes full-time home and office into tiny 20-ft-long frame
The results are in for Airbnb’s OMG! Fund competition and the home ideas are just as wild as expected. From a house shaped like a flowerpot to another that looks like a solar-powered cereal box, a hundred off-the-wall designs are now getting a chance a… Continue reading Flowerpots and cereal boxes among the crazy ideas becoming Airbnb homes
Following the completion of its award-winning Valley development comes another project by MVRDV that’s defined by an impressive mountain-like exterior. Ascension Paysagère has been partly built to the exacting Passivhaus green building standard and fea… Continue reading Energy efficient housing forms rocky outcrop on the riverside
Following the success of its revolutionary Bosco Verticale, Stefano Boeri Architetti has done more than most to help popularize the current trend of covering buildings with trees. Its latest project sees the studio return to this so-called “Vertical Fo… Continue reading Stepped housing will absorb CO2 with large number of trees and shrubs
Alongside its announcement of the 2022 Stirling Prize, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has also revealed the winner of the 2022 Stephen Lawrence Prize. London’s Hackney School of Food, by Surman Weston, got the nod for its modest budge… Continue reading Converted community kitchen wins 2022 Stephen Lawrence Prize
Following the reveal of six shortlisted projects earlier this year, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the 2022 winner of the Stirling Prize, the most prestigious award in British architecture. Níall McLaughlin Architects ha… Continue reading Library that’s built to last wins UK’s top architecture prize
Commissioned to create a tiny house for Australian tourism and events company Visit Victoria, Ample came up with the charmingly named Stella the Stargazer. Looking like a rural farm shack from a distance, the off-grid dwelling’s rustic appearance belie… Continue reading Novel off-grid tiny house slides its bed outside for stargazing
Iconic is a word that’s often overused in architecture, but we have no issue with it being applied to London’s Battersea Power Station. Almost 40 years after it was decommissioned, the famous Art Deco building has been painstakingly restored by Wilkins… Continue reading Mixed-use development brings new energy to Battersea Power Station
Taking the form of a series of timber and glass rectangles stacked on top of each other, the Robert Day Sciences Center for California’s Claremont McKenna College is likened to a game of Jenga by designer Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). The building will be… Continue reading Stacked rectangular structures form Jenga-like college building
As is often the case with projects from MAD Architects, its recently completed Quzhou Stadium stands out with an unusual, almost alien-like form. Described as a halo hovering over the landscape by the firm, the sports stadium is also designed to become… Continue reading Halo-like stadium “hovers” over rolling landscape