Month: January 2018
10 courtyards that function as outdoor living spaces
Nothing makes the connection between indoor and outdoor space like a courtyard. This week’s roundup of images from Pinterest celebrates some of the best examples, from a Japanese house built around a family’s beloved tree, to the open-air courtyard of an apartment block in one of LA’s densest neighbourhoods. Hiiragi’s House, Japan, by Takashi Okuno Japanese
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Van der Laat & Jiménez Construction Company HQ / Fournier_Rojas Arquitectos
The clients, one of the oldest and most prestigious construction companies in Costa Rica, requested an extension in a corner lot next to their building of more than 40 years, the remodeling of the latter, and a new integral interior design.
The Key Ingredient Your Entry May Be Missing (16 photos)
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Harvard Announces Winners of 2018 Richard Rogers Fellowships
Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the six recipients of their 2018 Richard Rogers Fellowship program. Inspired by Lord Richard Rogers’ “commitment to cross-disciplinary investigation and engagement,” the Fellowship established last year to support individuals “whose research will be enhanced by access to London’s extraordinary institutions, libraries, practices, professionals, and other unique resources.”
frank gehry revises plans for mixed-use development in santa monica

‘I’m very excited – it’s been 30 years since I’ve had the opportunity to design an impactful project in my hometown of over 40 years,’ says gehry.
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“America’s hinterlands now serve as playgrounds for the few wired haves”
Globalisation isn’t killing the USA’s backwater cities and rural areas, but rather turning them into escapes for wealthy “digirati” who are pumping money into regeneration projects, says Aaron Betsky in response to a New York Times article. Big cities operate globally. Well, duh. It took the “newspaper of record”, the New York Times, only about
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Your Clutter-Clearing Plan for the New Year (13 photos)
This article is from our Most Popular stories file.With an entire new year ahead of you, decluttering your home may not seem so hard. But after January, when that new year energy begins to wane, the prospect of tackling such a…
House in El Paso / Ignacio Arrillaga + Walter M. Parola
The project is located in the Country Club EL PASO, from the city of Santo Tomé, Argentina. It is implanted in a regular field of 20 x 40 mts subject to strict special internal regulations, where a single family home on two floors is resolved and approximately 400 m2





