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Le Dévéhat Vuarnesson

La Grange . Burgundy

Le Dévéhat Vuarnesson Architectes

Understanding the layers of the building, its memories, and bring it to a new life without erasing its history. Composing with what’s already there, without distorting it but transforming it.

Revealing and magnifying the quality and beauty of rural architecture. Unveiling materials, uncovering structure, preserving the raw state. Tending towards an obvious simplicity, to reach as far as possible the reality of the material. Advancing step by step. Continue reading Le Dévéhat Vuarnesson

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LDSRa

Valine House Conversion . Gent

LDSRa . photos: © Michiel Decleene . + archdaily

Valine is the conversion of a narrow, tall and deep row house. Before the conversion, it was a spacious and pleasant house with a small garden oriented to the west. On the ground floor, the veranda and the ground floor of the extension are demolished. The small garden turns into a large garden with a floating caravan above it. Continue reading LDSRa

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Kwong Von Glinow

School of the Art Institute of Chicago Flaxman Library Renovation . Chicago

Kwong Von Glinow . photos: © Mikael Olsson

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Flaxman Library renovation project radically proposes an “open book” approach to the spatial experience of the library by connecting two previously siloed floors to create one visually and physically connected space where the collections and the work of the librarians preserving those collections are on view. Continue reading Kwong Von Glinow