Residential Category

Wednesday 22 May, 2013

House J by Keiko Maita Architect Office

Rooms spiral up from a garden courtyard to a rooftop terrace at this family house in Japan’s Yamaguchi Prefecture by Tokyo studio Keiko Maita Architect Office.


Wednesday 22 May, 2013

Tudela-Culip Restoration Project in Cap de Creus by EMF and Ardèvol

Landscape architects EMF teamed up with architecture firm Ardí¨vol to remove over 400 buildings from a former holiday village in eastern Spain and transform the landscape into a series of meandering pathways and coastal viewpoints (+ movie). Pegmatite tranch


Wednesday 22 May, 2013

Houses in Molenplein by Tony Fretton Architects

London firm Tony Fretton has sandwiched two rows of brick houses between a pair of canals in the town of Den Helder in the Netherlands (+ slideshow).


Wednesday 22 May, 2013

“In the future we might print not only buildings, but entire urban sections”

Forward-thinking 
designers are using 3D printing to blow architecture wide open, as Dezeen’s editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs reports in this extract from Print Shift, our one-off publication dedicated to the developing technology.


Wednesday 22 May, 2013

Dubai-style “space hotel” would “turn Barcelona into a spectacle”

News: Barcelona officials are outraged over plans to construct a 300-metre “space hotel” – complete with a zero-gravity spa and vertical wind tunnel – on an artificial island off the coast of the city.


Tuesday 21 May, 2013

Strawscraper by Belatchew Arkitekter

Swedish studio Belatchew Arkitekter wants to transform a Stockholm skyscraper into a wind farm by covering it in thousands of electricity-generating bristles. Belatchew Arkitekter‘s Strawscraper concept for transforming Henning Larsen‘s Sí¶der Torn tower involves adding a 16-storey extension over the top of the building, then covering the entire facade in hairy-looking plastic straws designed to [...]


Tuesday 21 May, 2013

Zaha Hadids Miami skyscraper revealed

News: developers have unveiled images of Zaha Hadid Architects’ proposed 60-storey residential skyscraper in Miami, USA (+ slideshow).


Tuesday 21 May, 2013

Nowhere but Sajima by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects

Windows of various shapes and sizes give this weekend retreat on the south coast of Japan the appearance of a children’s shape-sorter toy.


Monday 20 May, 2013

Mediterrani 32, Sant Pol de Mar by Daniel Isern

This house by Spanish architect Daniel Isern looks like a cluster of concrete cubes, stacked up on a steep hillside on the outskirts of Barcelona.


Sunday 19 May, 2013

DHUB Museu del Disseny de Barcelona by MBM Arquitectes

Barcelona’s new design museum is an angular metal-clad structure designed by local studio MBM Arquitectes (+ slideshow).