• Campos Studio arranges Vancouver home around three-storey "toy chest"

    Campos Studio arranges Vancouver home around three-storey "toy chest"
    Canadian practice Campos Studio has designed this home in Vancouver for a family with four children, featuring walls of reclaimed brick and an open stairwell filled with nooks, storage spaces and hangout spots.The property called The Brick House is located in the Canadian city's Point Grey neighbourhood and takes its name from the main facade material – reclaimed bricks that give the home an aged look.
    The Vancouver studio collaborated closely with the young family to design a home that wo
  • Cantilevering concrete roof emerges from Portuguese hillside house by Aires Mateus

    Cantilevering concrete roof emerges from Portuguese hillside house by Aires Mateus
    An underground concrete house in Monsaraz, Portugal, by Aires Mateus is dug into a hillside and concealed by a green roof that cantilevers outwards.
    Sheltered by this curving concrete roof, the terrace of House in Monsaraz overlooks the nearby Alqueva lake.When see from above or the west, only the patio and white-painted light wells in the roof are visible in the landscape.
    Aires Mateus designed a subtle boundary fence of metal rods and a thin, deep cut housing the staircase that leads down into

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