Aaron Byrd

UK studio Hugh Broughton Architects has collaborated with American designer Rick Owens to create a prototype off-grid mountain refuge for the latest Moncler‘s Genius show, which took place in Shanghai. Designed to provide a warm sanctuary in harsh environments, the shelter has a faceted shape that contains a mezzanine bedroom, bathroom and a small combined […]

Elías Rizo Arquitectos has created a slate-and-weathering steel house called Casa AV that disappears into and emerges from the landscape outside of Guadalajara, Mexico. Known as Casa AV, the 1200-square-metre dwelling extends across a sloped site in Tapalpa in four single-storey rectangular blocks that are connected by a series of long walls. Casa AV was […]

Swiss studio Leopold Banchini Architects used natural materials when creating the interior of the Goodbye Horses bar, with the bar, chairs, lights, handrails and changing table all made from a single tree. Located in east London’s De Beauvoir neighbourhood, Goodbye Horses is a local wine and listening bar that was designed by Leopold Banchini Architects […]

Irish studio Scullion Architects took visual cues from long galleries in country homes in its design of Rathdown, a window-lined extension to a house in Terenure, Dublin. The elongated extension contains a spacious kitchen and dining area and opens up the home’s existing ground-floor living spaces, which were previously “cramped and dark”, Scullion Architects said. […]

A sloping concrete roof and perforated walls shelter the open-air interiors of Anchor House, a dwelling in the jungle in Vietnam by local studio MM++ Architects. Designed for an artist looking for an escape from the city, the 160-square-metre Anchor House sits on a narrow site surrounded by vegetation in the Mekong Delta. MM++ Architects organised […]

A lamp made of discarded mollusc shells and humming furniture featured in the Beyond Perception exhibit in New York City alongside digitized versions of the pieces for a future AI-driven video game. Curated by technologist Kelsey Falter and artist Moral Turgeman, the exhibit explores what the curators believe is a thinning boundary between the physical […]

Research into architecture workplace culture conducted by the UK’s Architects Registration Board has revealed widespread bullying, discrimination and sexual misconduct in the profession. The Architects Registration Board‘s (ARB) workplace culture report found that architecture professionals experience higher levels of discrimination and sexual misconduct compared to other professions that have published comparable research, including academia and […]

Chinese practice Lichao Architecture Design Studio has transformed an abandoned brewery in Zhejiang, China, into a creative park, retaining its industrial character with additions in reclaimed brick, concrete and weathered steel. The 25,400-square-metre site in the historic water town of Wuzhen was originally developed in the 1950s as an extensive factory campus containing production facilities, […]

Research group Forensic Architecture has developed an interactive map depicting the destruction of buildings, infrastructure and aid in Gaza, which it claims reveals patterns in Israel‘s military conduct. Forensic Architecture conducted independent research using data from open sources and third-party organizations to create the interactive platform titled A Cartography of Genocide, which features a map […]

This week, Google unveiled its first mass timber office building in Sunnyvale, California. It is designed to be a cutting-edge and eco-friendly building that will serve as a productive and conducive workspace for the employees. It was designed, keeping in mind the needs and requirements of the environment and employees. It is a five-story structure […]