The private space is usually associated with hiding what goes on inside, allowing people to have certain moments of intimacy. Habitually, bathrooms have been designed for this purpose, reducing openings to a minimum or — sometimes — eliminating them completely.
However, being such an important space within a building, bathrooms have become an object of new exploration for architects. By blurring the limits of privacy — without losing it completely — these spaces are open to the outdoors, allowing the breeze to enter. How does this new experience feel? Check out 30 open bathrooms that play with the feeling of exhibitionism, without fully revealing what is happening inside.
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House 24 / Park + Associates
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Architects: Park + Associates
- Area: 715 m²
- Year: 2016
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Professionals: Construkt Pte Ltd, CST Consultants, Green Prospect Pte Ltd
Design Disruption Explores High Density Housing with Moshe Safdie and Ma Yansong
A new webcast and podcast series, Design Disruption, has been launched by architectural writer Sam Lubell and social entrepreneur Prathima Manohar. In a partnership with ArchDaily, the first episode today at 11 am (EST) on ArchDaily, YouTube and Facebook. This episode explores high density housing with guests Moshe Safdie, founder of Safdie Architects, and Ma Yansong, founder of MAD architects. The goal of the series is to provide an international perspective on disruptive issues with guests from different continents.
Eave House / Ming Architects
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Architects: Ming Architects
- Area: 4500 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Professionals: CST Consultants, PTS Consultants
How to Incorporate Gardens in Home Design
Indoor gardens can contribute important benefits to home living, ranging from aesthetic beauty to improved health and productivity. Research has shown that indoor plants help eliminate indoor air pollutants called Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) that emanate from adhesives, furnishings, clothing, and solvents, and are known to cause illnesses. They also increase subjective perceptions of concentration and satisfaction, as well as objective measures of productivity. Indoor gardens may even reduce energy use and costs because of the reduced need for air circulation. These benefits complement the obvious aesthetic advantages of a well-designed garden, making the indoor garden an attractive residential feature on several fronts.
What is Plantscaping?
Interior gardens and plants produce many day-to-day benefits, like mood boosting and memory enhancing effects. Interior landscape design, also known as "plantscaping", is much more than the act of bringing plants indoors; it's actually about the strategic placement and selection of plant species within an architectural project to highlight and enhance aspects of spatial design.
The Greja House / Park + Associates
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Architects: Park + Associates
- Area: 392 m²
- Year: 2014
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Professionals: CTH Builder Pte Ltd
Returning the Green / Park + Associates
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Architects: Park + Associates
- Area: 39443 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: Abopart, Gyptone, Plantercell, Rezill Sleeper System, Rockfon
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Professionals: Group Survey 4, PM Link Pte Ltd, Bescon Consulting Engineers Pte Ltd
VUE Hotel / Ministry of Design
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Interior Designers: Ministry of Design
- Area: 10000 m²
- Year: 2017
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Manufacturers: 3nod, BODE, EUROART, Guang YiXin, Indel B, +9
15 Incredible Photos of Architecture at Nighttime: The Best Photos of the Week
With Halloween just around the corner, this week we have prepared a special edition of Photos of the Week featuring nighttime images. Undoubtedly, this effect is among the most spectacular and difficult to achieve in architecture photography. Working in the absence of light is not a simple task for photographers, but by playing with the artificial lights in buildings (and, usually, some dramatic HDR effects) it is possible to achieve adequate exposure for incredible results. Below is a selection of 15 images from prominent photographers such as Ketsiree Wongwan, Laurian Ghinitoiu and Philippe Ruault.
The Nassim / W Architects
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Architects: W Architects
- Year: 2015
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Manufacturers: Covering Chile, Lithos Design, Saporiti Italia
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Professionals: Sappori Italia, SI Design Pte Ltd.
World Photo Day 2017: Our Readers’ 100 Most-Bookmarked Architectural Photographs
This August 19th is World Photo Day, which celebrates photography on the anniversary of the day on which France bought the patent for the daguerreotype, one of the earliest photographic processes, and released it to the world for free in 1839. At ArchDaily, we understand the importance of photography in architecture—not only as a tool for recording designs, but also as a discipline that many of us enjoy. To celebrate the occasion, we decided to reveal the most popular images ever published on ArchDaily, as selected by you, our readers. Using data gathered from My ArchDaily, we have ranked the 100 most-saved images from our database; read on to see them.
Spotlight: Moshe Safdie
Theorist, architect, and educator Moshe Safdie (born July 14, 1938), made his first mark on architecture with his master's thesis, where the idea for Habitat 67 originated. Catapulted to attention, Safdie has used his ground-breaking first project to develop a reputation as a prolific creator of cultural buildings, translating his radicalism into a dramatic yet sensitive style that has become popular across the world. Increasingly working in Asia and the Middle East, Safdie puts an emphasis on integrating green and public spaces into his modernist designs.
PRODUCE Workshop Debuts Plywood-based "Fabricwood" Pavilion for Herman Miller's Shop-in-Shop
Furniture and design retailer XTRA's new flagship store in Singapore's Marina Square includes a Herman Miller "Shop-in-Shop" that draws inspiration from the furniture it showcases. Encircling the space is a 20-meter arched structure that, from a distance, gives the appearance of tufted fabric pulled taught over a frame. But in fact, this structure is built from a plywood "skin" that designer Pan Yicheng of PRODUCE Workshop has dubbed "fabricwood."
22 Toh Yi Road / Ming Architects
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Architects: Ming Architects
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: Polystone, Praxis
CTBUH Names Winners of 2016 Tall Building Awards
The Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat have announced the winners of the 15th edition of the CTBUH Tall Building Awards. From over 100 submissions, the best buildings from four regions – the Americas, Asia & Australasia, Europe and Middle East & Africa – were selected, along with recipients of the Urban Habitat Award, the Innovation Award, the Performance Award and the 10 Year Award. The CTBUH will pick a global winner from the regional selections later this year.
The towers were chosen by a panel of architects from world-renowned firms and were judged on every aspect of performance, looking in particular for “those that have the greatest positive impact on the individuals who use these buildings and the cities they inhabit.”
Read on for the list of winners.
House with Screens / ADX Architects
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Architects: ADX Architects
- Area: 360 m²
- Year: 2016
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Manufacturers: AUTOCAD, PHOTOSHOP, SKETCHUP PRO, Futar, HANS GROHE SINGAPORE / DURAVIT, Hafary, LIFESTORY PTE LTD, +1