Sûreté du Québec Mlll District Regional Headquarters in Mascouche, Canada

The Sûreté du Québec Mlll District Regional Headquarters designed by Services intégrés Lemay et associés is located in Mascouche, Canada. The distribution in a cross shape, slightly off-centred, allowed the public entrance to be moved away from the secured entrances. The architects  proposed a compact volumetry, reducing the building’s footprint and envelope, maximising interior / [...]

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Chen House New home in Durham, United States

Designed by Gomes + Staub, Chen House New home is located in Durham, United States. Designed for a sloped lot with a limited construction budget, the house adopts the efficient vernacular building forms of the North Carolina landscape as well as the cost-effective exterior materials of conventional North American home construction, including fiber-cement lap siding, [...]

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East Sixth Street House in Boston, United Kingdom

The East Sixth Street House designed by Touloukian Touloukian Inc is located in Boston, United Kingdom. A speculative residential unit is designed at the rear of an urban lot where the building code prevents windows on two of the four facades and restricted views limit visibility to the street and to desirable adjacent properties. In [...]

Tags: Boston, building materials, Clapboard, fiber-cement clapboard, Siding, Touloukian Touloukian Inc, United Kingdom

Boxhead house design for art and furniture showcase in Berryville, United States

Located in Berryville, United States, Boxhead house design for art and furniture showcase was designed by Carter+Burton Architecture, PLC. Design: The ‘boxes within boxes’ design features an economy of scale strategy where the largest volume leaves structural insulation panels uncovered, and as each box gets smaller it fits into another. Inspired by local agrarian language, [...]

Tags: Architecture, Berryville, building materials, Carter+Burton Architecture PLC, Construction, Decorative arts, Furniture, Metal siding, Siding, Stucco, United States, vernacular architecture, Visual arts

Architects Atelier Ryo Abe in Teshima, Kagawa, Japan

The Architects Atelier Ryo Abe designed by Teshima, Kagawa, Japan is located in ARCHITECTS ATELIER RYO ABE. Shima Kitchen was a renovation project to create a venue for arts and dining from an old vacant house in a village on Teshima, a rural island in the Seto Inland Sea of Western Japan. Around this old [...]

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