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"REMODELING-RENOVATION"
The latest restoration project by architecture office Paredes Pedrosa is located in Oropesa, Toledo. The project recuperates various lost and disconnected spaces within an arcade that runs through the village, and transform them into two houses. The…
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What to do if your restaurant is become for the fourth time at world's best restaurant and want to improve. Inside is difficult if you are already the best in the world, but if you want thatyour guets have a better experience, in addition to delight…
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The new project by OMA in New York is behind a red brick facade in East Village in a burgeoning creative community. This freshly expanded hub is the headquarters of Cai Guo-Qiang – an artist best known for his gunpowder ‘drawings’ – who used its…
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As an architect, having the chance to explore the life of a building from its start until its decline and then being in charge of its reconversion is, just like Eduardo Souto de Moura tells us, a unique and rare experience. This is the thrilling…
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The Rotterdam-based OMA firm, led by Rem Koolhaas, received the commission to renovate and extend the Berlin's KaDeWe store (Kaufhaus des Westens), a century-old building with 60,000 square metres of retail space, with the addition of a glass…
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The new Chicago Riverwalk is a major public amenity at the river level along lower Wacker Drive, extending from Michigan Avenue west to Lake Street, it offers a mix of concessions and public activities. Symbolic links to the City’s past are evident…
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The Studio In Vitro, Atelier de Arquitectura, presents a refurbishment of a early 19th Century middle-class house placed in Oporto, Portugal. The house is near to other 4 houses of the same age, which have similar façades, narrow plots and a huge…
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The type of "concept store" local is taking hold in major European cities (Paris, London and Berlin, among others). These spaces combine trade with culture, art and fashion, offering a specific lifestyle for a very concrete audience. In this case,…
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The return of Lina Bo Bardi’s radical crystal easels to the display of the collection presents a selection of 119 artworks drawn from the museum’s diverse holdings, spanning from the 4th century BC to 2008. The easels were first presented at the…
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The masterplans by David Chipperfield to rebuild Berlin’s Bötzow Brewery is situated near of Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, the Bötzow Brewery was severely damaged during the Second World War, and hasn’t been rebuilt since. British architect David…
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