Architect: Guilherme Machado Vaz
Client: Matosinhos City Hall
Location: Matosinhos, Portugal
Project: 2002-2004
Construction: 2004-2005
Laminated Timber: Flexilam
Structural & Hydraulic Engineer: Carla Martins
Electrical Engineer: Pedro Sanches
Contractor: Norasil
Constructed Area: 220 sqm
Budget: 200.000 EURO (US $296.080)
Photographs: Leonardo Finotti, Guilherme Machado Vaz

The Centipede is a Tea House in the Basílio Teles Garden, located in Matosinhos, the city where Álvaro Siza was born, in [...]

Architects: Arons en Gelauff Architecten
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Design Period: 2001-2006
Construction period: 2004-2006
Programme: apartments, parking
Client: Stichting Ouderenhuisvesting Rotterdam (SOR)
Architectural Team: Adrie Laan, Menno Mekes, Jan Bart Bouwhuis, Erik Jan Vermeulen, Hilde Gründemann, Mariska Koster, Jacco van der Linden, Felix Fassbinder, Irene Siljama
Landscape Architect: Petra Blaisse, Inside Outside
Contractor: Leendert Kool, Dura Vermeer Bouw Rotterdam B.V.
Architectural Engineer: Peter Stout, [...]

Building a new house in the old fashioned way, doesn’t allow change and takes not only a lot of time but a lot of personal effort. Not the Cocobello modular cabin which is built using three interlocking elements that can be moved horizontally and vertically, to form a two-storey studio unit. Designed as a Fliegender [...]

Architects: H Arquitectes - David Lorente, Josep Ricart, Xavier Ros, Roger Tudó
Location: Santa Cristina d’Aro, Girona, Spain
Collaborator: Felip Toledo, Technical Architect
Client: Steven Hind and Beatriz EscolanoConstruction
year: 2002-05
Constructed Area: 109 sqm
Budget: 154,000 EURO (US $243,000)
Photographs: STARP estudi
Although located in one of the most untouched areas of the Costa Brava, Rosamar housing development is characterized by a [...]

Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Design Year: 2005-2006
Construction Year: 2006-2007
Design Team: Martina Lipicer - udia, Nejc Batistic - udia, Andrej Gregoric - cand.arh, Ana Kosi - stud.arch.
Programme: Social apartments with parking
Client: Gradis G group, Ljubljana
Constructed Area: 5,000 sqm
Nº of floors: 4 floors + 2 underground parking
Budget: Construction: 650 EURO/sqm (US $1,020)
Ceilling: 1,200 EURO/sqm (US $1,880)
Photographs: Tomaz [...]

Inspired by the intimate scale of a Japanese tea house and the compact efficiency of a smart-car, students working on a joint project between the Technical University of Munich and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have come up with a tiny, transportable dwelling called the Micro-Compact Home (m-ch). The lightweight structure is only 2.65 m [...]

The residential markets in Sofia and Varna account for the bulk of luxury homes in Bulgaria while occasional listings in other cities are the exception rather than the rule reports Dnevnik.
In many cases, the label ‘luxury’ is misleading because it is used to describe properties that offer basic amenities like parking and sports facilities which [...]