These Tables Were Designed With Small Pockets For Plants

February 4, 2019 Erin 0

  Toronto-based design studio Wooyoo, has created the Pokopoko Table, a modern wood coffee table that has small pockets of green space.   The majority of a coffee table surface is flat and sometimes goes unused, so the designers decided to fill that unused space with small planters. Small raised mounds were created in these […]

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Soriano House / Beyt Architects and Bac Estudio de Arquitectura

February 4, 2019 Rayen Sagredo 0

Beyt Architects developed the concept of this Mediterranean house, and teamed up with BAC Estudio de Arquitectura for technical design and further stages.
The house has two main design driving ideas: a clean and efficient layout that had to do its best in a small plot; and the use of patios to bring light inside the house, at the same time as privacy.

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New Leisure Area for the Grande Hotel / Levisky Arquitetos | Estratégia Urbana

February 4, 2019 Rayen Sagredo 0

Based on a proposal to create a main axis to connect two blocks originally housing the hotel’s activities by sector, in the main building and the pool area, this project by Levisky Arquitetos | Estratégia Urbana for the Nova Área de Lazer do Grande Hotel Senac São Pedro was conceived with the objective of extending, integrating and qualifying recreational, social interaction and leisure options with mobility and comfort to cater to guests’ different age brackets.

Taller Paralelo turns abandoned Mexico City building into Cachai House

February 4, 2019 James Brillon 0
Cachai House by Taller Paralelo

Architecture studio Taller Paralelo has overhauled an abandoned building in Mexico City to create this residence, which is arranged around a courtyard with a reflective pool. The intervention revitalised a building from the 1960s, located in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighbourhood. Despite its poor state, the structure was salvageable, according to the Mexico City-based studio. “The main

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herzog & de meuron builds eight villas on the inclined banks of lake lugano

February 4, 2019 macnadusa 0

on the inclined banks of lake lugano, herzog & de meuron has completed a series of eight villas that form a single, interconnected complex. the residences, each three to four stories high, follow the site’s steep topography to offer impressive lake views. located in ticino, an italian-speaking region in southern switzerland, the dwellings are sited […]

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Alley Armor / KUBE Architecture

February 4, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

This new outdoor deck and enclosure are perched atop an existing rear garage behind a DC row house. The Owners requested a private space for spending time and entertaining, with shade for the intense summer heat. A 6-story apartment building sits behind it across the alley, exposing the back and top of the deck to all the windows units.

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DOTS / Forrest Frazier + Architecture AF

February 4, 2019 Cristobal Rojas 0

Originally built in the 19th century as the Collier’s Printing House, the historic building now known as the Greenway Mews has undergone many transformations in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Currently a popular home for tech companies, the building offered an ideal headquarters for a mobile gaming app company.