• Bureau des Mésarchitectures crafts a half-circular housing block clad in concrete and aluminum panels

    Bureau des Mésarchitectures crafts a half-circular housing block clad in concrete and aluminum panels

    Bureau des Mésarchitectures—the architectural practice of French-Portuguese artist Didier Fiúza Faustino—has designed a new apartment complex in Leiria, Portugal. Adding seven additional apartments along Leira’s Rua dos Mártires, near the center of the small city, the complex consists of a renovated single family home connected to a newly constructed, half-circular extension clad in precast concrete

  • Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls

    Architect: Makoto Yamaguchi Design Location: Tokyo Completion Date: 2024 Makoto Yamaguchi Design has conceived a new headquarters for a video game production company in Tokyo. Known as MONOSPINAL, the building takes the form of an inverted Japanese pagoda, clad in aluminum panels instead of traditional wood construction. The slanted walls that characterize the form of

    Makoto Yamaguchi Design conceals MONOSPINAL with slanted aluminum walls