The walls of this house in Australia by architects McBride Charles Ryan have origami-like facets and folds. Located on the south coast, the holiday home is named after the Klein Bottle, which is the mathematical term for a surface with an indefinable left, right, top or bottom. Rooms angle around a central courtyard and step upwards to negotiate …
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Flavaboom, a new frozen yogurt shop in Chelsea, brings the art of summertime desserts to a scientific level. Designed by New York-based Dune, a firm best known for its colorful amorphous furniture, the concept for the prototype store is an ultramodern laboratory, complete with futuristic details. The 1500-square foot shop features a 30-foot long topping bar …
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Spanish architect Javier Peña of Xpiral has completed two houses in Murcia, Spain, with the lower volume built from stacked ceramic wine racks. Called Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada, the project comprises two residences, with one cantilevered above the other. Some of the holes in the wine racks that make up the lower level are plugged with coloured …
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Waiting rooms inside this red-striped health centre by architects Miguel Barahona and Luis Castillo overlook the Sierra de Gardor mountains in southern Spain. The two-storey Consultorio en La Envía is set into the sloping landscape beside a housing development. The red panelled exterior of the centre contrasts with the earthy tones of the surrounding vernacular architecture. A …
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This house near Brussels by architects Samyn and Partners has a glass wall at the front and a plant-covered wall by French botanical artist Patrick Blancat the back. Blanc, who is widely regarded as the pioneer of the green wall, created the flourishing facade and roof from a selection of exotic plants. Completed in 2007, the four-storey …
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Japanese architects Akinari Tanaka, POI, Nawakenjimu and Lapin have completed this diamond-shaped house in Kokura, Japan, with a ledge in one corner for climbing up to the roof terrace. The Kokura Tanaka House is split into quarters by two crossing walls in the centre, creating four equal rooms that each have access to outdoor terraces. The small plot is surrounded …
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The bucolic setting of this lovely private refuge is located in the tiny hamlet of Bachte-Maria-Leerne in the Flemish district of Belgium, about 10 kilometers from the country’s third-largest city of Gent. Gent-based architecture studio Wim Goes Architectuur designed the beautiful extension to this residence. The wooden addition sits above a new wine cellar and extends …
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