GRT Architects have redesigned Fort Greene Townhouse, a family residence in Brooklyn, New York. From the Architect: The extreme narrowness of this eleven foot wide townhouse was a productive constraint. A typical townhouse uses its superior width to push the stairs off discretely to one side. At less than half as wide, this home has […]
Rapt Studio has designed the new Dropbox Headquarters in San Francisco, a wonderful 300,000-square-foot working space. From the architects: The magic of Dropbox is it allows you to work anywhere, using a nearly invisible interface. But the company’s 300,000-square-foot physical offices couldn’t be invisible. The space needed deliberate visual cues to support collaboration among the
To revamp a traditional 3-bedroom apartment in an aged residential building in Hong Kong. Lim+Lu’s strategy for the task was to challenge the typology of the conventional apartment and the norm of labeling rooms. First and foremost, Lim+Lu considered how the modern-day individual uses the home.
Project: Atlas Hotel Architects: Vo Trong Nghia Architects Status: Completed in 2016.04 Location: 30 Dao Duy Tu, Hoi An, Quang Nam, Vietnam Site Area: 1,348 sqm GFA: 3,115 sqm Design Credit: Vo Trong Nghia, Tran Thi Hang, Le Thanh Tung, Pham Huu Hoang, Le Duc Toanv Pham Khac Hung, Nguyen Thi Ha Vi, Lê Thanh
UV Architects have recently completed Westmoreland Terrace, a project of renovation and modernization of a residence in London. The client brief was to make better use of the existing layout, increase the amount of natural light into the main areas of the plan, upgrade the plumbing and electrical installations and make a better connection to
Whenever HAO Design receives a new case, the first thing we do is to observe the surrounding environment of the house and list its unique strengths
Architects: Schjelderup Trondahl Architects AS Project: Off/Ramberg House Project Team: Stian Schjelderup, Øystein Trondahl, Katrine Skavlan Location: Holmestrand, Norway Area: 273.0 sqm Photography: Jonas Adolfsen Designed by Schjelderup Trondahl Architects, Off/Ramberg House is a site-tailored house on the edge of a 120m vertical cliff in Holmestrand, Norway. The site has spectacular wide screen views of
Austin-based architect Hugh Randolph recently renovated Maywood House, a beautiful single-family home with a powerful 70s pedigree. The House is located in Tarrytown, Austin, Texas. Designed by Odessa architect J. Ellsworth Powell in 1972, the structure had remained intact, except for an attempt by previous owners to give it some Santa Fe style inside. Surrounded
