10+ hour, 4+ 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…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (175+ words) House for Art Collectors in Highland Park, Ill. As guests arrive, a prismatic four-car garage—jacketed in blackened wood and capped with a pyramidal roof—is the first intervention by the 2022 Design Vanguard firm to come into view. It connects the…...

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, 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,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (892+ words) Empower visionary design with custom-configured glass systems from Western Architectural Openings. Our statement-making glass walls, doors, and window systems are engineered for scale, made to order with precision, and accompanied by personalized care. One significant example is the trend toward…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (174+ words) “The client’s concept from the beginning was for the design to recall primitive times, like cavemen huddled around a fire,” explains Jacobsen partner Bernardo Jacobsen. Throughout the restaurant, walls are finished in a rammed-earth-inspired plaster incorporating natural clay. Their rust-colored…...