An unusual and inverted process. The client convinced us to accept the responsibility to build with such a low cost. The shaped carcass, stoutly wrapped with cork bricks, deals a few radical ruptures, claiming a friendly distance to the neighborhood…
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Cork House by Arquitectos Anónimos. Photograph © Ivo Canelas
In order to maintain privacy from the dense neighborhood, the majority of the windows were moved from the walls on to the ceiling where they appear as slits that are cut from the structure. Sunlight filters in from above, defining the perimeter of…
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West 57th residential builiding by BIG and Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel by Michael Graves. , full_html
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West 57th edificio residencial por BIG y Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel por Michael Graves.
Less than half an hour's drive west from Paris city center is located the site of roughly 5000 m2. The rather flat ground slightly tilted to the north, just before the general topography drops abruptly to the river Seine.A gain of only a few meters…
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Located in the Prater Street 30-32, this building by PLANT - Atelier Peter Kis is a fine example of public housing and integration with its surrounding context while attaining regulatory demands from the municipality. It gives the project and its…
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This book gathers some of the houses Octavio Mestre team have designed and built over 25 years into the profession. As the book is aimed towards a younger audience, possibly students of architecture and related disciplines, it puts as much special…
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Cover. Sunlight Houses by Octavio Mestre
Hotel Coronita Save the Beach, is now in Spain for a few days in the central Plaza de Callao in Madrid. , full_html
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Reflecting the current state of architecture, urbanism and landscape discourse, Architecture for Humanity – Chicago, School of the Art Institute Chicago and the Village of Igarai are proud to announce, 1.99 REAL HOUSING: Communities + Designers, a…
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1.99 REAL HOUSING: Communities + Designers
Donacio is right, we did not know this house of Herzog in Tenerife. Appears to be another story of love for the island while doing the design phase and construction of TEA and the remodeling of the Plaza Spain. Good research., full_html
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House of Herzog in Tenerife. Photograph © Donacio Cejas
The apartment building, located on Grünerløkka in an area called Ny York (New York), today one of the most colourful and diverse areas in Oslo. The block is a rare remaining example of the intimate blend of housing and small scale industry typical…
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