2021 Best Homes. ANNA Stay by Casper Schols – Photo by Tonu Tunnel.
Best of 2021 – We have rounded up 2021 best houses, including a Scandinavian villa incorporating courtyards along its entire length and a narrow split-level family home in Belgium.
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48°Nord Landscape Hotel by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter – Photo by ©11h45.
MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects and WASP, World’s Advanced Saving Project, teamed up to develop and create TECLA, the first eco-sustainable housing model. With an area of about 60 square meters, it comprises a living zone with a kitchen and a night zone that includes services. The furnishings are partly printed in local earth, integrated into the raw-earth structure, and partly designed to be recycled or reused. The nearly zero-emission project reduces waste and scraps in the name of low-carbon housing. Read more…
TECLA by MCA Mario Cucinella Architects and WASP – Photo by Iago Corazza.
Caspar Schols has created ANNA Stay’s, a flexible sliding cabin inspired by the “desire to live with nature’s elements, rather than shielding them off.” The cottage has two different ‘shells’ as outer walls, supported on rails. The inner wall, consisting of a framework of wood and glass, is separated from the roofed, wooden outer wall. By shifting the shells and the glass framework, different setups are possible. “Just as you adjust your clothes to suit the weather, your mood, or the occasion,” explains Schols. Read more…
Photo by Jorrit ’t Hoen.
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has completed the 48°Nord landscape hotel comprising 14 hillside cabins in Breitenbach, France, in Alsace. Conceived as a village framed by a picturesque natural landscape, the eco-hotel is inspired by Scandinavian practices and builds on the northeastern French region’s culinary, wellness and nature opportunities. “The 14 cabins dot the hillside like boulders on a slope, balancing privacy and outlook.” The studio told Archipanic. Read more…
48°Nord Landscape Hotel by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter – Photo by ©11h45.
Abin Design Studio has completed Gallery House, a two-storey building hosting multiple cultural and recreational spaces for the community of Brisberia, India. Inspired by terracotta temples found in the Indian state of West Bengal, the building features exposed brick masonry walls inlaid with ceramic blocks that create intricate patterns on the facade. Read more…
Gallery House by Abin Design Studio – All photos by Edmund Sumner.
Zecc Architecten clads the Steel Craft House with a Corten steel façade. Good cooperation, perseverance, and love for the craft are the main ingredients of a former garage turned into a wooden residence in the Dutch city of Utrecht. “The stylistic features of a working-class house were revamped.” Zecc Architecten told Archipanic. The Steel Craft House “strongly stands out in abstraction and material, while integrating with the adjacent buildings through shape, composition, and detail.” Read more…
Steel Craft House by Zecc Architecten – Photos by Stijn Poelstra on behalf of Zecc Architecten.
Squeezed between two buildings on a very narrow plot, the House on Bagattenstraat by NU architectuuratelier in Ghent, Belgium, provides a generous and spacious family home. Stainless steel corrugated sheets and a concrete plinth with a similar wavy surface blend in with the surrounding urbanscape. Here, a humble door leads to a spacious family home with lots of light and great city views. Read more…
House on Bagattenstraat by NU architectuuratelier – All photos by Stijn Bollaert, courtesy of NU architectuuratelier.
Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has sliced and dislocated the building to’ double’ its volume. The House of Many Courtyards has the appearance of a series of individual boxes; in reality, it is one interior connected via a 40-meter-long, end-to-end, central corridor overlooking multiple courtyards. Read more…
HOUSE OF MANY COURTYARDS by Claesson Koivisto Rune – All photos and images: courtesy of Claesson Koivisto Rune.
