A personal review of design creations
#BrickWeek 1 - Krushi Bhawan
For indoor or outdoor, for humble shelters or sophisticated homes, bricks are providing solutions for every architectural need. Today’s project involves bricks of course but much more by supporting local craftsmanship too.
Season One, Episode Three: India.
#BrickWeek 1 – Sleepless Residence
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begin” said once Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. This is for sure the speciality of WARchitect for this Sleepless Residence.
Season One, Episode Two: Thailand
#BrickWeek 1 - Cuckoo House
"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune." ~ Plutarch. This ancient wisdom demonstrates the power of this humble material that has gone through the ages… Let’s start today a week dedicated to the brick!
Season One, Episode One: Vietnam.
Pavilion A – A Tribute to Modern Architecture
In Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, right outside Montréal, Canada, a pavilion with luminous transparency and even a tropical touch magnifies the experience of rest and relaxation.
Lourcine: from Military to Civil Law
In Paris’ 13th Arrondissement, the former Lourcine military barracks erected in 1875 are now home of an extension of University of Paris I. A library, a lecture theatre, classrooms and offices are now installed within the old buildings and in basement levels under the parade ground.
The Rajasthan School
Imbibing the organic character of Indian villages & old cities, the Rajasthan School is a low rise 3 level school with open, enclosed and semi-enclosed spaces of various volumes.
#LifeAfterLockdown – Berghaus Zallinger
For the last post of our series, we mix everything… The location is Italian but people speak German, the mountains are stunning in the winter but remain an endless field for Summer activities too… And the interior combines here as well traditional wood structures with contemporary flavours…
Episode Eight: Berghaus Zallinger, Italy.
#RamadanSeries – The Abrahamic Family House
The last post for the 2020 Ramadan Series, we look towards the future with an interfaith complex unveiled in September 2019…
Season 2 - Episode 4: The Abrahamic Family House
#LifeAfterLockdown - Cheetah Plains Lodge
Stretching over 300km, the Kruger National Park is one of largest game reserves in Africa. For our penultimate visit of this series, we reach South Africa and its extraordinary wildlife.
Episode Seven: Cheetah Plains Game Lodge, South Africa.
#RamadanSeries - Shah Faisal Mosque
The journey continues but this week, we look at one of five biggest mosques in the world. Imagined in 1966, this building is a splendid realisation by a Turkish architect.
Season 2 - Episode 3: Shah Faisal Mosque, Islamabad, Pakistan.