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Budapest City Hall by Erick van Egeraat

Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has won a competition to design a new city hall for Budapest, Hungary. (more…)

I wanted to create an ultimate wooden architecture. I thought through this bungalow, which can be considered as a small and primitive house, it was possible to do a primitive and simultaneously new architecture. 350mm square profile cedar is piled endlessly. At the end of the process appears a prototypical place before architecture became architecture.

Wood is amazingly versatile. Due to its versatility, wood is used in a conventional wooden architecture by intentional differentiation in various places. Not only in structures, such as columns and beams, but it can also be used in everything else from foundation, exterior wall, interior wall, ceiling, flooring, insulation, furniture, stairs to window frames. I posit that if wood is indeed multifaceted, then conversely it should be possible to create architecture that fulfills all functions by one process, and by one way of using woods. It is an inversion of versatility. From that originates, new architecture that maintains an undifferentiated condition of the harmonized whole before function and role underwent mitosis. (more…)

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Design Miami temporary structure by Aranda\Lasch

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Cabin Vardehaugen

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Project X by René van Zuuk

Dutch architect René van Zuuk has designed a house for himself in Almere in the Netherlands.

Called Project X, the villa includes an office space and is located at the Fantasy District, an area for experimental housing. (more…)