Architecture news

• OWIU Studio brings Japanese style to Biscuit Loft apartment in Los Angeles

  03-04-2021 19:00
  
  Architecture and design studio OWIU Studio has renovated an apartment in an old factory in Downtown Los Angeles, adding Japanese design elements to the industrial space.
  Biscuit Loft is located in the Biscuit Company Lofts, a seven-storey factory built by a bakery company in 1925 that was converted into flats 15 years ago.
  Top: the living area. Above: a guest bedroom doubles as a tea ceremony room
  The Los Angeles firm renovated a 1,620 square-foot (493-square-metre) home on the ground floor of t
  
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• "The virtual world is taking over the real world," says virtual designer Anthony Authié of Zyva Studio

  03-04-2021 18:24
  
  Digital designer Anthony Authié of Zyva Studio and visualisation artist Charlotte Taylor and have collaborated on an  NFT auction of Architoys, a range of capsules containing fantasy architecture projects.
  The aluminium capsules, which are the same size as an AirPods case, contain a watch-like mechanism that can display a series of images of virtual architectural environments.
  They can also store digital images and data files relating to a fantasy project.
  "We wanted to give people t
  
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• BarlisWedlick builds sauna topped by tower for Hudson Valley cabin

  03-04-2021 13:00
  
  American architecture studio BarlisWedlick built this outdoor sauna topped by treehouse-style viewing platforms for a cabin in New York's Hudson Valley.
  Set on a 75-acre patch of land with a cabin and a barn, the three-storey Sauna Tower is formed of a concrete sauna that functions as a base for the stacked platforms made of Alaskan yellow cedar.
  A concrete sauna is topped by a cedar tower
  The wood-burning sauna is reached via a grassy slope with stone-slab steps cut into the hillside. A small p
  
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