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Nettleton 199 by SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects and OKHA Interiors in Clifton, Cape Town, South Africa: The brief was to create a building that maximised the connection with the view and the sea, create a garden on the mountain side of the site and to minimise views over neighbouring buildings. Incoming search [...]

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. [...]

The architect, Jorge Mealha, set the surrounding ground as a virtually blank solid perform a dialectically tensioned play, searching, through scale and accentuation on the surfaces edges outlines, the emphasis on the light/shadow interplay, proposing an ever changing reading throughout the day. Incoming search terms:jorge mealha, light and shadow, casa troia mealha, terraced house skylight, [...]

Freshwater House by Chenchow Little Basic idea for this design is to make an operable facade to provide a privacy and shading on a relatively public site adjacent to the beach. This house consist of three distinct parts; a podium base, a garden/ living space, and a bedroom volume clad with operable screens; each designed [...]