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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 [...]

Herbst Architects was challenged to build a house on the site which 90% covered in mature pohutukawa trees as a part of a continuous belt of forest along the beach front. The program separated loosely into private and “public” components, give smaller individual masses with which to articulate the forms. The private functions of bedrooms [...]

Paz Arquitectura have designed the Casa Luz in Guatemala city, Guatemala. With intent to emphasize the structural elements, and to seek to highlight the local construction methods and materials, design work was done using fine timber formwork in order to leave a permanent imprint on the exposed concrete. Incoming search terms:casa luz paz arquitectura, arquitectura [...]

Rieteiland House by Hans van Heeswijk Architecten: While the front of this waterside house, on the recently developed island of IJburg near Amsterdam, is clad in perforated aluminium panels, the rear is entirely glazed, so that residents can watch the sun set. Some of these panels are positioned behind windows and can be opened automatically [...]

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. [...]