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IF_DO

The Space . London

IF_DO . photos: © Nick Dearden

IF_DO was commissioned by the Methodist Church to design a new community centre specifically aimed at enhancing community cohesion and addressing issues of social isolation and loneliness. The new community centre, named ‘The Space,’ is located on the Elsinge Estate in north-east London. The estate, built in the 1950s, has seen little redevelopment or investment, and so this project provides a new, and much-needed piece of social infrastructure that includes gathering spaces for the community, accommodating both formal and informal events and activities. Continue reading IF_DO

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Olivier Fourneau

KURTH . Wallonia

Olivier Fourneau Architectes . photos: © Stijn Bollaert

The building on Quai Kurth (2020-2024), adjacent to the Dutch-style Protestant church erected in 1929, perfectly illustrates the adaptive writing, achieving an astonishing osmosis of a subtle dialogue of materials, writing, and masses. Volumetrically, it skillfully plays with its position and scale attached to the neighboring quay ensemble, and its direct articulation against the religious building: this special situation generates a powerful and expressive plastic writing, monomaterial, notched, swayed, including the surfaces of the adjoining gable walls. Continue reading Olivier Fourneau

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Poli . Paumelle . Trézeux

La Suie Cabin . FAVERGES

Marina Poli . Philippe Paumelle . Richard Trézeux . photos: © Clément Molinier

In the distance, the hiker sees a black mass. Across the expanse, the sun no longer reigns, and the wooden cabin becomes the focal point. The light and the hiker attempt to penetrate the object, disrupting their respective rituals. The cabin seems to invite them in, yet it hinders their progress. The light struggles to enter the fossil of the old mine. It has slipped between the charred wooden blocks, reminiscent of the lignite ore once mined just a few hundred meters away. Continue reading Poli . Paumelle . Trézeux

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RAUM

Renovation and extension of a house . Quiberon

RAUM . photos: © Charles Bouchaïb

Located in Quiberon, in the south of Brittany, the project is the transformation of a holiday home into a main residence. The old construction, a typical downtown house of Quiberon, developed few relationships with the outside. Like most of the domestic introverted architectural heritage of Morbihan. Continue reading RAUM

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