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A series of steel columns support the faceted concrete roof, while a cluster of shorter poles radiate out from a concrete stack   that supports the staircase   and encloses the upper floor. The result is an angular, irregularly shaped house that forms a ring around a patch of landscape, named House in Nagohara. Related […]

8. «We have to work out now how we will create resilient, truly sustainable and human-scale urban environments that are land-efficient, use low-carbon materials and do not depend so completely upon the car. As we face so many critical challenges in the years ahead, these approaches are crying out to be brought back   to […]

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As the products are mostly air, they can be transported vacuum-packed flat at 10 per cent of their   final size. First designed in 1969, Gaetano Pesce’s Up furniture series is made from expanded polyurethane foam and upholstered in elastic synthetic jersey. BB Italia also produces the designs in smaller UpJ versions for children. The […]

The installation follows a similar project in 2013, when the architects built a Christmas tree made from 365 wooden sledges that were given to a local children’s charity following the festive period. It can be visited during day and night.» When the tree is dismantled on the Twelfth Night after Christmas – the date decorations […]

Find out more about this project » Bao House by dot Architects Chinese studio dot Architects designed this tiny quilted cube house to sleep three people, after being asked to design a mobile living space that is human-powered for an exhibition in 2012. Grey cement board panels cover the two-person home,   but some have […]

How many different types of technology are you applying? Which includes, of course, the streets, but it also includes the parking areas. If you could just drop your car at the entrance of a parking place and it just gets in and you pack all the cars together without any streets in-between, you would reduce […]

The external space will collect attention from outside.» Inside, more timber boarding covers a partition wall reminiscent of a garden fence, which sits between the main styling area and the hair-washing space and stockroom. It leads up to an open-plan living room and kitchen with white walls, wooden floors and angular ceiling beams. «To characterise […]

«They didn’t have the overhang that we eventually had in the box, but they did allow you to do all the cluster studies and it was very convenient. He originally proposed 1,000 residences in a three dimensional landscape of stacked concrete boxes, each with their own outdoor spaces and connecting «streets» above ground level. And […]