New York studio Young Projects has completed a warming hut for a housing development in Alberta that consists of a fireplace set within a slatted wooden box (+ slideshow). (more…)
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2014 National Architecture Awards: Nicholas Murcutt Award
This is an invigorating category, with a range of excellent small projects that tick many boxes. From these, a beautifully designed boatshed and surf life saving club for the local community of Bicheno, a small fishing and holiday town on the east coast of Tasmania, emerged clearly as this year’s winner.
Discouraged by the failure of an earlier “off-the-peg” project due to budget overrun, and with it the possible loss of a grant to build new facilities on the foreshore, some friends – among them an architect – got together to hatch a rescue plan, pro bono. They were eager that the new design should not repeat the disappointment of recent unsightly foreshore buildings, which block ocean views, and that the solution should retain a sand dune habitat for fairy penguins adjacent to the site, which had been threatened by the previous project.
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