9+ hour, 38+ min ago   (248+ words) Architectural Record Snapshot: Jakob+MacFarlane Designs a Colorful Vertical Village on the Belgian Coast Belgian identity has always been in-between. The seaside hamlet of Knokke-Heist, sandwiched by the Port of Antwerp-Bruge and the Dutch border, commissioned Parisian practice Jakob+MacFarlane…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (327+ words) Twin House in Vichuquén, Chile “The two buildings are held in a kind of tension with one another,” says Nicolás, “yet they have a clear rhythm and an obvious structural logic.” Visitors enter Twin House from behind, walking along a…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (163+ words) Architects’ Houses by Dominic Bradbury. Phaidon, 352 pages, $90. Residential Architecture by Kazuo Shinohara, translated by David B. Stewart, Shin-ichi Okuyama, and Kenichi Nakamura; edited by Christian Dehli and Andrea Grolimund. Park Books, 284 pages, $40. The Eames Houses edited by Eckart Maise. Phaidon,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (204+ words) The Brick House’s roof, curved in plan, creates a sunlit outdoor space. Designed for a couple and their three children, the split-level structure extends 95 feet across the main frontage, close to the limit of required setbacks. On approach, it reads…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (942+ words) architecturalrecord.com In Peru’s Coastal Desert, Leggett & Cahuas Designs a Fully Open-Air and Off-Grid Retreat from Modern Life Region of Lima, Peru Sited in an ancient gully, the Casa Cerro Negro is surrounded by hills that limit ocean views. In…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (58+ words) Casa Pilar in Morelia, Mexico Images courtesy of TEN Arquitectos Architect:TEN Arquitectos — Enrique Norten, principal; Melissa Fukumoto, Carlos Salas, Bogdan Stuparu, Luz Romero, Carolina Lopez Rochin, Nuria Heras, Eduardo Ezeta, Óscar Ramirez, project team Size:32,000 square feet (house); 10,700 square…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (238+ words) The All Straw House in New York’s Hudson Valley It looks like a furry but friendly wild animal or some strange new species: the 145-square-foot cabin, recently completed on a rural site near Hudson, New York, has a playfully off-kilter…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (55+ words) MICO in Ypres, Belgium The bricks, laid in English bond, and the mortar holding them together, are both made from the site’s clay-heavy soil. Image courtesy Toop Architectuur Images courtesy Toop Architectuur; click to enlarge. Andrew Ayers is a Paris-based…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (363+ words) Architectural Record Continuing Education: Biogenic Materials Wingårdhs Reinvents a Regional Vernacular with a Novel Wall System The Villa Lerkil, designed by the architecture firm Wingårdhs, is organized as a hallandslänga, a traditional farmhouse typology in southwestern Sweden. In such dwellings,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (372+ words) The Perkiomen School's new student center is composed of four barn-inspired volumes. Founded in 1875, the Perkiomen School is a small college-preparatory boarding and day school set on a leafy 185-acre campus in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, midway between Philadelphia and the Blue…...