Cabana and pool by CDM cut into rocky slope on Mexico’s coast

October 10, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Mexican firm CDM has embedded a beachfront cabana and swimming pool into a rugged hillside covered in vegetation and overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The project, SJA III, is nestled into a rocky hillside in the town of San Juan de Alima, on the western coast of Mexico. Rather than intruding upon the landscape, the cabana

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House GO17 / jaf arquitectura

October 10, 2018 Pilar Caballero 0

Ovidio and Shirley’s home, a shelter in 69m2. Three sectors with their own character: two solid and compact volumes that contain a space of variable limits for the daily life.

OBBA juxtaposes reflective panels with concrete for office tower in seoul

October 10, 2018 macnadusa 0

reflecting images of seoul‘s seocho-gu district, the illusion by local architecture office OBBA is an office tower built with exposed dark concrete and clad partly in hexagonal metal mirror panels. deviating from the monotonous box typology of traditional office buildings, the tower has an H-shaped plane configuration that bridges the core and program zones. the fragmented panels […]

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AIA Announces 2018 Film Challenge Winners

October 10, 2018 Eric Baldwin 0

The American Institute of Architects have released the winning films for the 2018 Film Challenge. As part of the institute’s larger Blueprint for Better campaign, the film challenge asked participants to produce, shoot, and edit 3 to 5 minute documentary-style short films. The AIA invited architects and filmmakers to collaborate in telling stories of architects, civic leaders and communities working together toward positive community impact.

Chile’s Guggenheim-inspired “caracoles” captured in photos by Cristobal Palma

October 10, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architectural photographer Cristobal Palma has taken a series of photos revealing the 46 spiralling shopping centres built across Chile in the 1970s and 80s. Known as caracoles, meaning snails, these unusual buildings are believed to have taken inspiration from the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum in New York. The floors gently slope to form a spiral, meaning

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