Month: October 2018

Taller Hector Barroso completes caramel-coloured apartment complex in Mexico City

October 12, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Architecture firm Taller Hector Barroso has designed a housing complex in Mexico City, with warm-hued concrete walls inside and out. The four-storey LC710 housing project is situated in a residential part of Colonia del Valle. Measuring 10,333 square feet (960 square metres), the complex comprises six residential units, with various floor plans but similar characteristics.

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Sierra Madre Taco House / Erbalunga estudio

October 12, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Sierra Madre is a Mexican Taco House located in the centre of Vigo. The scope for the project of the Mexican owners for the Restaurant was to bring the flavors and colours of Mexico to the design so customers could have a global and gastronomic experience.

EASTERN design office to build the world’s biggest greenhouse

October 12, 2018 macnadusa 0

EASTERN design office aims to build ‘the biggest greenhouse in human history’,  expanding over 150,000 m2 on a valley of the hebei province, northern china. the large-scale proposal imagines a botanical garden as part of a masterplan that will transform the entire area into a touristic destination, and aims to cover the entire valley with […]

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Urban Nouveau Aims to Save Stockholm’s Lidingö Bridge by Combining New Housing

October 12, 2018 Eric Baldwin 0

Swedish studio Urban Nouveau has created a plan to save Stockholm‘s Gamla Lidingöbron bridge by transforming it into a linear park and housing. Built in the 1920s, the rail and pedestrian bridge features a lattice structure and arched steel trusses that would frame 50 new apartments and a pedestrian park above. While the local council has made plans to demolish the Lidingö bridge, Urban Nouveau launched a petition with the aim of saving the bridge and re-purposing it for the city.

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Dr. George W. Davis Senior Residence and Senior Center / David Baker Architects

October 12, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

This dynamic new senior community center and on-site supportive senior homes are the realization of a long-time dream of activists and advocates working to create a gracious space for local elders to age in place in health, dignity, and company. The center is the heart of a developing Aging Campus in the Bayview neighborhood and the point of entry for a wide range of targeted senior services.

Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects plans cluster of triangular smart skyscrapers for Helsinki

October 12, 2018 India Block 0

Triangle-shaped towers fitted with smart technology form the centre of Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects competition-winning masterplan for Helsinki. The local architecture firm’s development was chosen as the winning entry in the contest to execute a phased development of high-density mixed-use towers in Helsinki’s Pasila district, north of the city centre. Named Trigoni for the three-sided plans of

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