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Saturday 16 October 2021

Extended eaves shelter garden of Imaise House by Tatsuya Kawamoto + Associates

Japanese studio Tatsuya Kawamoto + Associates has created a house in the city of Ichinomiya, Japan, with exaggerated eaves that shelter an outdoor living space and garden.

The dwelling, named Imaise House, is situated on a private side road in a densely populated district. It is shortlisted in the urban house category of Dezeen Awards 2021.

A Japanese house with overhanging roof eaves — The roof of Imaise House shelters outdoor living spaces

Imaise House is designed by Tatsuya Kawamoto + Associates with an overhanging roof that extends to the very limit of the site's boundary, which is formed by the edge of the road.

"We aim to get the maximum spatial volume by taking in the surrounding environment of the private road, where the front road is an individual property and planning a space in which the inside and outside are seamlessly continuous," explained studio founder Tatsuya Kawamoto.

A sheltered garden in Japan — The roof extends to the site's boundary

The studio's main objective when designing Imaise House was to achieve high earthquake resistance while creating large, open living spaces.

Rather than adopting the typical approach of placing an open-plan living area above a cluster of cellular rooms, Kawamoto chose to create a series of timber "gate-frames" that support the sloping roof.

Wooden interiors of Imaise House in Japan — The dwelling has a timber frame

Each frame spans the entire eight-metre width of the plot, ensuring that the open floor area is as generous as possible while achieving the stability required for earthquake protection.

The walls vary in height and support the pitched roof, which extends out at the front of the house. Its large eaves are interrupted by openings through which trees protrude.

A wooden Japanese bedroom — A bedroom is positioned beneath the tallest point of the house

"In order to make effective use of the limited premises, it is expected that the life of the resident will gradually ooze out into the area under the large roof by extending the eaves to the front roadside and creating an external space continuously," Kawamoto added.

The six wooden frames are arranged linearly from the front to the rear of the site and have been evenly spaced to bring a sense of rhythm to the interior.

Imaise House's main living space occupies the majority of the ground floor and comprises a lounge, kitchen and dining area that looks out onto the sheltered garden.

Curtains incorporated into each of the frames can be closed to separate the open space into different zones.

Private spaces, including a bathroom and a traditional Japanese-style room with tatami flooring, are accommodated at the rear of the building.

Stairs lead up to a pared-back bedroom positioned beneath the ridge at the tallest point of the house. Internal windows allow daylight to enter the bedroom and provide a visual connection to the living space below.

A living room with curtain partitions — Curtains are used to separate the open living spaces

Other Japanese houses with large overhanging roof include the Kasa House in Kariya by Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates, where the eaves are used to shelter four covered gardens.

In Nara, FujiwaraMuro Architects used an oversized roof supported by large wooden beams to shade the interiors of the House in Gakuenmae.

Photography is by Takashi Uemura.

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Ten playful interiors with slides at their centres

Walker house in Toronto, Canada, by Reflect Architecture

For our latest lookbook we've gathered ten projects, from family homes to toy company offices, that feature slides at the heart of their interiors.

While slides might mostly be associated with public spaces such as playgrounds, these projects show how they can be a fun addition – and provide an immediate talking point – to both offices and private homes.

This is the latest roundup in our Dezeen Lookbooks series that provides visual inspiration for designers and design enthusiasts. Previous lookbooks include marble bathrooms, stylish plywood interiors and interiors with window seats.

GG Apartmeny, Ukraine, by KI Design Studio

The undulating slide that connects the two floors in this Ukrainian apartment was added to make being at home more fun.

The slide, which functions as an alternative to the existing staircase, descends from the top storey through the kitchen and into the living room below.

Find out more about GG Apartment ›

MR Design Office, Japan, by Schemata Architects

Japanese studio Schemata Architects hid a slide behind a mirrored wall in this office in Tokyo, creating a design detail that is sure to surprise visitors, as only the slide's endpoint is visible.

To use the slide, office workers climb a ladder up to the top of a bathroom and storage area, from where they can enter the hidden tunnel.

Find out more about MD Design Office ›

Townhouse B14, Germany, by XTH-Berlin

A more discrete version of the concept can be seen in this townhouse in Berlin, which features sloping pinewood floors that function as slides.

These connect the home's concrete-walled sleeping areas with a platform that houses a piano.

Find out more about Townhouse B14 ›

Walker House, Canada, by Reflect Architecture

Walker House in Canada features a pale pastel-blue slide at its centre, which connects the basement level and the ground floor.

Reflect Architecture designed the slide to animate the lower level so that it did "not feel like a basement" and to help bring in natural light via the large opening that it required.

Find out more about Walker House ›

Ekimetrics Office, France, by Estelle Vincent

A trio of boxy timber meeting spaces were inserted into this Parisian office block by architect Estelle Vincent, who added a light blue slide to one of them.

The slide leads from an upper-level crow's nest, which has a small meeting area, down to the main desks.

Find out more about Ekimetrics Office ›

Staircase with slide

Narrow MaHouse, France, by The Very Many

The children in this home in Strasbourg, France, can take advantage of the narrow built-in slide that sits at the side of the staircase that connects the house's ground and first floors.

"A set of stairs engaged as a slide is an example of informal follows function," said architects The Very Many.

"The extra length of steps, the degrees of each tilt, the obliques in plan and elevation, act as small anomalies to introduce the experiential to one's daily life."

Find out more about Narrow MaHouse ›

Family Playground, Taiwan, by HAO Design

This family home in Taiwan features a dedicated play area in its kitchen, so that kids can hang out with their parents while they are cooking.

As part of the design of the area, architects HAO Design designed a slide that can be accessed by a set of stairs. These also double up as a bookcase and feature a cosy cushioned reading nook.

Find out more about Family Playground ›

Panorama House, South Korean, by Moon Hoon

Seoul studio Moon Hoon designed a wooden slide slotted into a combined staircase and bookshelf for Panorama House, a three-storey home for a family with four children.

The slide allows both kids and grownups to quickly move from the living area down to the downstairs study area and library.

Find out more about Panorama House ›

Skyhouse, USA, by David Hotson and Ghislaine Vinas

Inside this penthouse apartment in New York, a tubular steel slide plummets through four storeys. Starting in an attic space at the top of the apartment, it comes to a brief stop on the following floor.

Here, residents can either get off or get back inside to slide down three more floors.

Find out more about Skyhouse ›

Lego PMD, Denmark, by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord

Danish toy brand Lego has added a fitting design to its open-plan Billund office: a whimsical metal slide.

Workers at the company can use it to quickly get down from a central walkway that connects the upper levels of the open-plan workspace.

Find out more about Lego PMD ›

This is the latest in our series of lookbooks providing curated visual inspiration from Dezeen's image archive. For more inspiration see previous lookbooks showcasing window seats, plywood interiors and marble bathrooms.

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Friday 15 October 2021

This week we revealed this year's Stirling Prize winner

This week on Dezeen, we announced that the Kingston University London – Town House designed by Grafton Architects was the winner of this year's Stirling Prize.

Designed to act as "the university's front door," the six-storey building in Kingston Upon Thames features a series of open-plan communal spaces arranged around a statement central staircase and fronted by a distinctive colonnade.

Architect Norman Foster, who was the head of the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize, commended the Town House for its versatility, calling it "the future of education."

Norman Foster on coronavirus — Foster + Partners sells "significant" shareholding to Hennick & Company investment firm

Private family investment firm Hennick & Company has become the largest shareholder within Foster's eponymous architecture office Foster + Partners.

"Towards the end of last year, we started to explore long-term structures for the practice that would respond to the challenges and opportunities of growth and encourage the next generation of leadership and this partnership is the culmination of that process," Foster said.

The office was founded by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Foster in 1967.

The building has a tall rectangular form — Stefano Boeri covers social housing tower with 10,000 plants

Italian architect Stefano Boeri has completed his first "vertical forest" in the Netherlands, in the form of a 70-metre-tall tower with protruding balconies that features over 10,000 plants.

Called Truro Vertical Forest, the project is a social housing tower in Eindhoven. The tower follows a number of similar plant-covered designs by Boeri, including the recent Palazzo Verde housing complex in Belgium.

CLT building — New York approves use of cross-laminated timber for six-storey buildings

In New York, the city's council has approved mass timber for use in the construction of buildings that are up to 85 feet tall.

Meanwhile in the UK, timber architecture expert Andrew Waugh has claimed that rules restricting the use of wood in architecture projects are hindering the switch to low-carbon building methods.

UAE Pavilions at Dubai Expo 2020 — Ten must-see pavilions at Dubai Expo 2020

As the Dubai Expo continues, we rounded up ten must-see pavilions from the event.

Three thematic pavilions designed by architecture studios Grimshaw, AGi Architects and Foster + Partners are among the highlights, as well as national pavilions by Santiago Calatrava, JKMM and Es Devlin.

Night view of House in The Lakes by Yoo, by Broadway Malyan — Broadway Malyan completes glazed woodland retreat in the Cotswolds

Our lookbook this week focused on interiors with window seats.

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SOM designs UAE diplomacy building with Middle Eastern motifs in Manhattan

Architecture firm SOM has designed a limestone-clad building patterned with symbolic palm leaves for the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations in Manhattan.

The building represents the United Arab Emirates' (UAE's) diplomacy to the United Nations (UN) and is located in Manhattan's Turtle Bay neighbourhood, close to the UN headquarters.

Palm leaf motifs on UAE building — The building features palm leaf motifs

The Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations is an organisation set up by the UAE to champion the UN and is headed by ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh.

Indiana limestone, sourced from the same quarries that provided the facades for the Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Center, clads the diplomacy building.

Turtle Bay neighbourhood in Manhattan — It is located in Manhattan's Turtle Bay, close to the UN headquarters

The 10-storey tower was designed to blend with the scale of the rest of the neighbourhood while also representing the UAE.

SOM added palm leaf motifs to the building's canopy and entrance as an international symbol of peace.

UAE UN building facade — The facade's tapering limestone piers echo narrowing palm leaves

As the tower rises, the facade's vertical elements attenuate to cater to privacy and light-related needs within the building, which also echoes the narrowing spine of a palm leaf.

"The palm is represented by the tapering limestone piers extending skywards from the second floor to the roof," SOM design partner Chris Cooper told Dezeen.

Interiors inside diplomacy building — Middle Eastern courtyards informed the building's interiors

Visitors enter the building via a 40-foot-tall (13-metre) double-height hallway that was designed to echo a courtyard in a traditional Middle Eastern house.

"On the interior, the concept of hospitality blends Middle Eastern tradition with diplomatic decorum," continued Cooper.

Neutral interiors by SOM — SOM designed the project to be symbolic of international exchange

"The space brings guests and staff together in an environment that is dignified, understated, and symbolic of international exchange."

Split into three zones, the building's first two storeys house the entry hall and event spaces, while floors three to six feature an amenity level and staff offices.

Staff offices — Office spaces are included in the building

Levels seven and eight are reserved for executive areas, and at the top portion of the building, there is a roof terrace with impressive views of the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza below and the East River beyond.

"The layout of each floor of the building is inspired by the principle of the central courtyard, with a central reception and gathering space that is accessible from the elevator lobby," explained Cooper.

"These spaces choreograph the visitor's progression through the building – heeding the hospitable nature of Middle Eastern culture."

Throughout the building, interiors pay tribute to the Middle East. Conference rooms include a traditional geometric pattern known as mashrabiya, which features in every UAE diplomatic office around the world.

Lebanese designer Nada Debs created the interiors for the building's entry hall with a palette of natural materials intended to evoke serenity, such as Northern Canadian limestone.

Neutral interiors in the diplomacy building — Neutral interiors are intended to reflect the diplomatic nature of the building

Amenity spaces were designed with flat-cut American walnut and Calacatta marble, while executive spaces house Majlis areas for entertaining guests.

"In designing the mission, we endeavored to integrate Middle Eastern and local motifs, symbolising the power and importance of cross-cultural exchange and rooting the building in New York City's architectural traditions," said Cooper.

Calacatta marble in SOM's building — Marble features in amenity spaces

SOM is an American firm founded by Louis Skidmore, Nathaniel Owings and John Merrill in 1939. The office was recently chosen to design a mass-timber Olympic village for the Milan 2026 Winter Olympics.

The photography and drawings are courtesy of SOM.

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Home Studios renovates Fort Greene Townhouse designed for entertaining

Fort Greene Townhouse brownstone renovation by Home Studios

The gut renovation of a Brooklyn brownstone for a chef and their family led Home Studios to create spaces intended for hosting dinner parties.

Built in 1901, the three-storey Fort Greene Townhouse required an entire overhaul following an earlier "underwhelming" renovation that left its spaces lacking in character.

Kitchen in renovated Fort Greene Townhouse — Fort Greene Townhouse was renovated for a family of four who enjoy entertaining

Brooklyn-based Home Studios, which is shortlisted for Interior Design Studio of the Year at the Dezeen Awards 2021, was tasked by a restauranteur to recreate the atmosphere of their family's previous West Village apartment in a much larger space.

With 1,900 square feet (177 square metres) to utilise, the studio set about reworking the floor plan to better connect the rooms and create a more open flow through the house.

Kitchen detail of marble backsplash and counters — Paonazzo marble forms countertops and a backsplash behind the range in the kitchen

Other key requirements of the renovation were to ensure that the family of four could cook for and entertain guests, and to respect and highlight the building's original Italianate architectural features.

"The design principles of 'hospitality' ultimately informed the architectural and material decisions throughout the project," said the studio.

"The goal of the project was to embrace the underlying tenets of 'history' and 'materiality' in an effort to create an updated environment that defies the conformity of a typical residence."

Dining area with vintage and contemporary furnishings — The home's layout was altered to improve the flow between rooms

The principal space for entertaining is an open-plan parlor and kitchen on the ground floor.

In the kitchen, dramatically veined Paonazzo marble forms a backsplash behind the range and countertops on either side.

The same stone also caps a central island, while handmade ceramic tiles create reeded patterns on its vertical ends.

Custom oak and brass hardware and cabinetry conceal ample storage space, while glass doors reveal the contents of two wine fridges and a selection of cookware stored in between them.

Powder room with Picasso-inspired mural — Picasso-influenced murals by Kimmy Quillin decorate the bathrooms

Behind the pale green millwork beneath the staircase is a powder room lined with a Picasso-influenced mural by Kimmy Quillin, whose artwork is also found in the bathrooms upstairs.

A combination of vintage and contemporary furniture pieces and artwork feature in the living and dining area, occasionally introducing colour to the neutral-toned interiors.

Living room with red couch — Contemporary furniture pieces introduce colour to the neutral spaces

Reclaimed oak flooring runs through the majority of the home, adding to the "stylistic cohesion from room-to-room that feels congruous with and complementary to the home's modern functionality", according to the designers.

Historic details that were restored include the entrance doors, the stair handrail, and the fireplace mantels.

Bright upstairs bedroom — Bedrooms upstairs are light and bright

Upstairs, the bedrooms are light and bright, with more oak used for bed frames and headboards, as well as nightstands and baseboards.

This is Home Studios' second residential project, after the renovation of a Soho apartment in 2020.

Upstairs bathroom with fireplace and freestanding tub — Oak floors run through most of the rooms, including the upstairs bathroom

Founded in 2009, the firm has also recently completed a hotel in LA with Mediterranean-influenced interiors, and a restaurant in a converted Wisconsin train station.

The photography is by Brian Ferry.

Project credits:

Architecture, interior design, styling: Home Studios
Fabrication: David Benedek, Matt Zalla, Works Manufacturing

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