david adjaye and ron arad refine plans for UK holocaust memorial

May 1, 2019 macnadusa 0

in october 2017, adjaye associates, ron arad architects and landscape architects gustafson porter + bowman were selected to design the UK’s new holocaust memorial and learning centre in london. located next to the houses of parliament in westminster, the memorial would honor jewish men, women, and children, as well as all other victims of nazi […]

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Atelier Ace draws on warmth of Finnish saunas for Manhattan’s Sister City hotel

May 1, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0

Ace Hotel’s in-house creative team has completed a new hotel next to the New Museum in New York, featuring warm cherry wood self-check-in booths, a diner-style restaurant and compact bedrooms designed like “Japanese bento boxes”. Atelier Ace’s Sister City hotel is located next to the contemporary museum in Manhattan’s bustling Bowery neighbourhood. Four floors were

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Blue Mist / 123 architects

May 1, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

Blue Mistis the design of a beauty salon in Beijing, that draws visual and formal influences from water and the seaside, resulting in a cool and calming space. The interior is characterized by gently curved walls that are finished with a white-blue gradation that recalls ocean mist and waves.

BIG designs EPIQ tower for Quito covered in earthy coloured tiles

May 1, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
EPIQ by BIG

Architecture firm BIG has unveiled its second project for Ecuador’s capital city: a mixed-use tower feature two curved blocks covered in  herringbone-patterned cladding and pockets of greenery.  Revealed today, BIG’s mixed-used EPIQ tower was developed in collaboration with Quito’s Uribe & Schwarzkopf. It marks BIG’s second project in the city after the IQON tower, which was

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Village Belle Hotel / Techne Architecture + Interior Design + TILT Industrial Design

May 1, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

Landmark St Kilda pub The Village Belle Hotel has been reborn through a reimagined design by Technē Architecture + Interior Design which opens the historic hotel up to Barkly Street and, just across the road, to the new pedestrian zone on Acland Street. The Technē design contrasts a contemporary beer garden, enclosed in fully operable glazing and robust steel framing, with a restoration of the original Victorian elements of the hotel. A drive-in bottle shop at the rear, on Smith Street, has been removed to make way for 12 boutique apartments.

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The Viewpoint House by Giordano Rogoski Architects

May 1, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Marcus Camargo   Giordano Rogoski Architects has designed a new house in Rolim de Moura, Brazil, that’s located on a lot with a slope of more than 32 feet (10m) between the front and the back.   At the front of the house, the garage has been sunken down under the house, while the landscaping […]

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Grand-Pic Chalet / APPAREIL architecture

May 1, 2019 Paula Pintos 0

Inspired by traditional shapes and the surrounding nature, the chalet design is a unique architecture tailor-made for its residents. The owners wanted a warm space, fit to host family and friends, in harmony with the environment, a space that breathes fresh air and replenishment. The GRAND PIC cottage offers, through simplicity and sober physicality, a unique experience of symbiosis between nature and architecture.

OMA and Laboratorio Permanente to transform two Milanese railway yards into “ecological filters”

May 1, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Agenti Climatici masterplan for Milan by OMA and Laboratorio Permanente

OMA and Laboratorio Permanente’s Agenti Climatici masterplan will turn two abandoned goods yards in Milan into public parks to filter the city’s air and water pollution. The Agenti Climatic masterplan will see the transformation of the Scalo Farini and Scalo San Cristoforo railway yards on the outskirts of the Italian city. OMA and Laboratorio Permanente plan to turn the former

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María Emilia House / Mínimo Común Arquitectura

May 1, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

The human being, helpless and deprived of tools, decides to transform his habitat. Given the need to protect himself and others, he builds his own cavern. Over the years, he domesticates the fire and then discovers the earth under the fire becomes a rock. Today 70,000 years later, we continue to build using the same materials as our ancestors, with water and earth, and the purpose remains the same: to protect those we love most, and to protect ourselves.