La Chupalla House / Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos
06 August
The commission was for a house for a large family, requiring many bedrooms and spacious common areas.
Intergenerational Housing Coop Milieu de l’Île / Pivot coopérative d'architecture
06 August
Located in a newly developed Montreal district, Coop Milieu de l'Île is a 91-unit intergenerational housing cooperative, born from a group of committed citizens seeking to address the city's housing crisis by creating affordable, off-market housing.
Whitberry House Extension / Pend Architects
06 August
Pend has completed a sensitive renovation and expansion of Whitberry, a Grade B listed Georgian farmhouse in East Lothian, Scotland. Working alongside the clients-turned-project-managers, the Leith-based architects unified the home's fragmented rear elevation and introduced light-touch interventions to the ground floor to support contemporary family life. In contrast to its charming pink frontage, the back of Whitberry reveals a curious arrangement, a patchwork of historic and somewhat haphazard additions characterized by reddish sandstone and brickwork, each a record of the masonry techniques of its respective eras. The arbitrary nature of these successive add-ons had resulted in a difficult, cellular interior layout, requiring the family to pass through several rooms to reach the garden.
A Material That Records Time: 10 Contemporary Projects Featuring Corten Steel
06 August
To recover, revitalize, convert—these actions have become increasingly present in contemporary cities, where architecture takes on the role of stitching together the overlapping layers of time that make up the urban fabric. Faced with this task, architects have explored a range of design strategies. Among them, one material in particular has stood out for how frequently—and effectively—it appears in interventions on historic buildings and contexts: corten steel. With its rusted surface, rich in texture and tone, it seems to offer a compelling answer to the challenging question of how to insert the new into the old. But what makes this material so recurrent in these situations? Is it simply its durability and versatility, or is there something deeper in its visual and symbolic presence?