The Burrows: Joining a House and Former Clinic into One Home
A Seattle renovation joins a former clinic and family home through new internal connections, an open kitchen and retained mid-century materials.
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A Seattle renovation joins a former clinic and family home through new internal connections, an open kitchen and retained mid-century materials.

Roomoor’s Monastic Field uses a low concrete cluster, a pyramidal skylit hall and controlled openings to protect family life beside a busy Jain temple.

A 29-year-old Bangkok home is reorganized around a double-height void, mature gardens and private rooms that keep a family connected without forcing constant togetherness.

A prefabricated timber frame meets a steep Brazilian hillside through planted circulation, sheltered balconies and a pool deck overlooking the coast.

A courtyard, connected rooms and replaceable building elements shape a narrow home in Las Palmas, where adaptability depends on everyday movement and privacy.

A raised volume in Manaus makes room for planting and shared domestic life, with furniture and an open stair shaping the ground floor.

A 60,000-square-meter sports complex in Tijuana connects fields, courts and training areas through concrete paths, plazas and shaded edges for everyday public use.

A six-meter timber installation in Lunano uses repeated triangular frames and rope-hung shingles to turn movement, sound and material economy into spatial experience.

An open furniture showroom in São Paulo pairs flexible displays with planted glazing, making circulation, changing light and façade care part of its design.

ArchUp examines Museum Vonk through reclaimed timber, verification, workshop use and the ongoing care of a planted roof.

A courtyard and planted roof terraces organize movement, outdoor living and privacy in a two-level house in Puembo, Ecuador.

A 60 m² apartment brings cooking and hosting together. ArchUp examines how a clear entrance, exposed ceiling and shared counter reorganize daily use.

At Penn, KieranTimberlake combines a historic building and a steel-framed addition to accommodate changing ways of teaching design.

Jamison 8.4 combines single-level living with extensive glazing. Its spatial capacity depends on the deck, orientation and the site around it.

Comillas reshapes its seafront through planting, permeable ground and dispersed seating, raising a practical question about how a coastal public space is maintained.

A timber cottage in Ontario uses a covered breezeway, prefabricated panels and seasonal occupation to negotiate the forested slope.

Terra Pavilion separates private retreat and social life through two contrasting levels: a concrete floor embedded in the slope and an open platform beneath a hovering roof.

Dutchmoor Valley Guesthouse in LaPorte, Indiana, distributes a 2,700-square-foot programme, approximately 251 m², across three gabled volumes. The familiar outline…

Casa Amona combines a convertible ground-floor living room, an independent 45 m² workshop and a planted courtyard to accommodate changing domestic needs.

Singapore has moved the regulatory submission process for new building projects into CORENET X, extending the mandatory digital workflow from…

A Path Shaped by the LandThis family house is distributed across several separate volumes rather than being consolidated into a…