The house begins with a steel bridge connecting it to the existing stairs. The bridge leads to the terrace that overlooks an enclosed garden, the house’s most distinctive feature, and segues into the combined living-dining-kitchen area. The bed and bathrooms are located beyond the stairs that lead down to a pipe organ practice room for [...]

Designed by Burd Haward Architects, the venue was a commission by owners Adam and Charlotte Caird, who dreamed of creating a concert hall based on natural acoustics rather than complex technologies. At the same time, this would also be contemporary and stylish, accompanied by a coffee bar or restaurant, merging music and food culture. The [...]

Indeed more than ever Scottish architects are strutting their stuff in the international arena: from RMJM in Russia and Sutherland Hussey in China, as well as the following featured projects – Hutton, Dalziel and Scullion’s pavilion installation in Jeddah and NORD’s Olympic Park monolithic substation in London.
On a more intimate level, and addressing Scotland’s more [...]

The View House is different. For a start, it dispenses with any notion of conventional form. Instead, the total absence of pitched roofs and vernacular cues has resulted in a sculptural concrete form that appears to grow out of the flat landscape. One might think that the View House is set adrift in its own [...]

Using the site’s restrictions to his advantage, architect Markus Gentner has folded in and opened up the house’s concrete and timber-panel envelope, transforming a difficult site into the setting for a spacious and pleasant family home. Even though it boasts a strategic spot in a prime location within one of Erlangen’s most sought-out residential areas, [...]