Month: September 2018

One of the quickest ways to get your living room in the mood for fall is by swapping out light, summery pillows for their cozier counterparts. Think rich velvet, moody indigo and cuddly faux fur. Which of these ideas for warming up your pillowscape fo…

The Fair-Haired Dumbbell is a collaboration between FFA and Guerrilla Development, with original mural artwork by James Jean. This speculative office building with ground-floor retail is located in the heart of the Burnside Bridgehead developments. At the eastside intersection of Burnside Street and the Willamette River, the Bridgehead is home to some of Portland’s most exciting and interesting new architecture.

OOPEAA, working in collaboration with Lundén Architecture Company, has won a design and build competition for a timber housing development in Kivistö, Vantaa in the Helsinki metropolitan area of Finland. Organized by the City of Vantaa, the competition asked entrants to design a district of wooden housing, part of a commitment “to provide climate-conscious development in housing.”

the seven-meter-long structure is built using washed-out, dark concrete with the intention to ‘craft the façade with the water contained within the volume.’

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