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Usaquén Urban Wetland / CESB / Obraestudio

March 4, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Obraestudio was awarded first prize in the open national design competition for the exterior platform of the Santa Barbara business center.  The competition was sponsored by The Colombian Architects Society. The 8,500 sq. meter landscape transformation aims to revitalize the common access space to the Torres Unidas Building, Scotia Bank, Samsung, AR and W Hotel towers, an emblematic public space corner of northeastern Bogotá.

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architect kevin roche dies aged 96

March 4, 2019 lynne myers I designboom 0

with a career spanning over six decades, irish-born roche became renowned for his post-war works in late 20th century america.
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Casinha / Jardim Arquitetura

March 4, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

The project was based on an existing edicule located near one of the lateral boundaries of the site. The initial program contained only one bedroom, a bathroom and a warehouse that totaled 24sqm, this was expanded adding kitchen, service area and living room and turned into a 60sqm house.

Sisal covers almost every surface in Pauline’s stand-up coffee bar

March 4, 2019 Natasha Levy 0
Pauline's Cape Town coffee bar sisal interiors

Tactile sisal surfaces helped Master Studio foster an inviting atmosphere inside this pared-back coffee bar in Cape Town, South Africa. Located in Cape Town’s buzzing Sea Point neighbourhood, Pauline’s has been designed by Master Studio to feature a “minimalist interior that retains its warmth”. “I think that it can be difficult to strike the balance

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“Form-Generating is Similar to Music – You Try to Compose Music and Suddenly the Melody Comes”: In Conversation with Kevin Roche

March 4, 2019 Vladimir Belogolovsky 0

American architect Kevin Roche passed away this past Friday, March 1 at the age of 96. He was born in 1922 in Dublin, Ireland, educated at the University College Dublin (1945) and Illinois Institute of Technology (1948). In 1966, he formed Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates (KRJDA). He has designed more than 200 buildings, including renovation to the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2012), National Conference Centre in Dublin (2010), Lafayett Tower in Washington DC (2009), J.P. Morgan Headquarters in Manhattan (1992), Central Park Zoo in Manhattan (1988), The Knights of Columbus Building Headquarters in New Haven (1969), The Ford Foundation in Manhattan (1968), and Oakland Museum of California (1966). In 1982 he became the fourth Pritzker Prize winner and in 1993 was awarded the AIA Gold Medal. The following excerpt is from our 2011 interview at the architect’s office in Hamden, Connecticut.