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Library House by Shinichi Ogawa & Associates

A living and dining room with six-metre high ceilings sits at the centre of this small white house in Japan by architects Shinichi Ogawa & Associates. The house was designed with a square-shaped plan, creating a symmetrical building where all rooms surround the central living space. A wall of bookshelves lines the edge of this room, while a long narrow skylight spreads natural light across the space and glass doors lead out to private courtyards at the north and south ends of the house.

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Los Terrenos by Tatiana Bilbao 

Bilbao conceived the new house, Los Terrenos (The Terrains), as a trio of small buildings (just under 2,200 square feet in total), each of which serves a specific function and emphasizes one of the three main materials in the project’s palette. The largest of these, a structure that contains an open living/dining/ kitchen space, is clad in mirrored glass, allowing it to disappear into the surrounding vegetation; its peak-roofed profile mirrors those of the mountains, and concealed doors open the interior to the terrace beyond.

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ʜᴀᴘᴘʏ ʙɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀʏ ᴋᴀᴋᴀsʜɪ | 15 sep

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Studio Groupwork + Amin Taha renovated an apartment whose central knot is a travertine staircase with the shape of a spiral: http://bit.ly/2kTSnyY