A minimalist concrete beach house in Mexico
The Pacific coast of the state of Guerrero, Mexico, isn’t known for its architecture. Yet it is there that Casa NU, a minimalist concrete beach house, was designed by an architect and built for surfers. With a floor area of 100 square meters, it is not a large house in terms of its footprint, but rather for its extraordinary architecture.
A brutalist style that blends into nature
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This former chicken shed has been transformed into a beautiful contemporary home
The former chicken shed had nothing going for it, except perhaps its location and breathtaking views. Typical of agricultural buildings, it had a corrugated metal roof, a dirt floor, and rotting wooden walls. Yet it is precisely this dilapidated structure, perched on a plateau in Monmouthshire, Wales, that has become one of Wales’s most talked-about architectural transformations. Architect…