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Grafton's Town House is a celebration of openness and community
Grafton Architects designs Town House for Kingston University London, combining a library and a dance school in a building conceived around light, openness and social interaction
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Apollo design Grigio, a minimalist concrete house in Tokyo
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Open house: an unassuming Argentinian family home communes with nature
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Concrete synergy: a modern house where Brazil meets Australia
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John Portman’s Entelechy II is a complex map of a long and fruitful life
Remembering John Portman (1924 – 2017), we return to his Sea Island house, Entelechy II, that we visited in 2009 (W*129). Portman was engaged in a search for his entelechy – the Aristotelian concept of ‘having one’s end within’, or realising one’s potential – and designing, building and inhabiting his own home was the only way to keep this philosophical thread consistent and alive.
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Brutal beauty: Mexico’s leading creative couple cement their passion for concrete
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Noah’s ark: a concrete house floats above South Poland’s mountainous landscape
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A concrete house in Ecuador takes its cues from its rich natural context
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Vårdal Arkitekter’s angular concrete and larch house blends seamlessly into a Tønsberg neighbourhood
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New take on the Greek beach house by Athens based R.C.TECH
Athens based architecture studio R.C.TECH offers a new take on the classic Greek beach house with a single-level volume of interlocking shapes, designed with holiday memories in mind
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Modern Australian beach house responds to 2015 bushfires
A beach house and studio by Matt Goodman Architecture Office in Australia is a refined, pro bono work created following the country's 2015 bushfires
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The postwar public art that became a symbol of the British modernist dream
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Welcome to Sarajevo: transforming the Historical Museum in Venice
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Office KGDVS’s Tim van Laere Gallery prepares for April opening in Antwerp
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A concrete Melbourne home centred on nature and mindfulness
Canopy House by Powell & Glenn is a Melbourne house built around mindfulness and a passion for open-air, concrete South American architecture
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View master: a Turkish house in Çeşme perfectly frames its sea vistas
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Concrete celebration: exploring brutalism through the lens of Simon Phipps
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Balancing act: step into Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s inverted pyramid home
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Tadao Ando-designed Wrightwood 659 exhibition space opens in Chicago
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Centre stage: Aberrant Architecture create a public platform for performance in Swansea
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Brutalist icon Preston Bus Station gets facelift by John Puttick Associates
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Geir Grung’s UFO-like hydroelectric station in the Norwegian mountains
The Suldal power station complex, part of industrial giant Norsk Hydro’s huge hydroelectric development in the 1960s, is an unassuming design destination with tourism potential. Architect Geir Grung, who hatched design concepts quickly with very little self-doubt, designed the buildings to dominate nature and reflect the progressive spirit of the space age. Inspired by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, with whom he travelled to China with on a research trip, Grung’s design combines Asian design influence with interiors carved out of the raw rock
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Tadao Ando’s He Art Museum draws on local Chinese vernacular
The famed Japanese architect draws on traditional, local architecture in his latest cultural project, the He Art Museum (HEM), which prepares to open its doors in Shunde, Southern China
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Concrete mass: welcome to São Paulo’s newest cultural centre
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Pálás in Galway takes arthouse cinema to the next level
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Raw Concrete: Barnabas Calder explores the beauty of Brutalism
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Cast masters: OMA brings concrete, culture and car parking to Miami’s Faena District
