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Description of Hijauan House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by Twenty-Nine Design: Hijauan is a house in the city of Kuala Lumpur. Situated on a small plot in a mature residential development, we took the Malay term “Hijau” meaning “green” as our design directive. Our aim was to avoid cutting a single tree on site. As [...]

Mountford Road by Shaun Lockyer Architects in New Farm, Brisbane, Australia: The “Mountford Road” project is a small but dramatic intervention into a 1950’s post war house, originally designed by the “Bell Brothers” (also well known for their furniture). The design exercise comprised essentially two aspects to the brief; the first being about the pragmatics [...]

The Tea House, located in the backyard of Archi-Union’s J-office, is constructed from the salvaged parts of the original warehouse’s collapsed roof. The site was extremely constricted with walls on three sides, and with only one side facing towards an open space that contains a pool. The space was further restricted by a mature tree. [...]

This one-storey house is designed by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates in Osaka, Japan. The house made of reinforced concrete displays a strong horizontality, with a clear composition of a long low lying horizontal roof, with vertical supporting walls. Incoming search terms:shinichi ogawa, HORIZON ROOF HOUSE, HORIZON ROOF HOUSE BY SHINICHI OGAWA & ASSOCIATES, shinichi ogawa [...]

This one-storey white house is designed by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates in a rural landscape. Its spatially in simple, being closed toward the outside by 3 vertical surfaces and a horizontal plane, has a semitransparent wall and a tunnel as the entrance in the principal façade. Thanks to this glass wall, sunshine reaches into the [...]