Month: June 2019

AHEAD Americas hotel award winners “reinvent ideas from the past”

June 28, 2019 Calum Lindsay 0
New hotels across the Americas are drawing on local history to create memorable guest experiences, say AHEAD Americas awards judges

Hotels across the Americas are drawing on local history to create memorable guest experiences, say AHEAD Americas awards judges in this video Dezeen produced for the awards programme. Many of the winners of this year’s AHEAD Americas awards, which had its ceremony last week at the Faena Forum in Miami, are urban hotels with interiors

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Jabuticabeiras House / Ricardo Ropelle Felippi Arquiteto

June 28, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

A house at the end of the street of a private condominium. Inside the city and distant of urban life. Isolated from its neighbors due to the position of the plot in the neighborhood and by the forest that defines the back end boundary of the land. The house design is structured in two well-defined sectors, on the one hand, to follow the geometry of the land, and, on the other hand, to meet the expectations of the dwellers: a home with living spaces integrated and connected to nature and private areas which are reserved.

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Bold And Breezy Interiors That Mix Blue And Pink Decor, With Red Accents

June 28, 2019 HD Staff 0

Uplifting, calm and just a little bit quirky, these two modern interiors are dressed in bright colour palettes of light blue, pink and shades of red, designed by Nika Vorotyntseva. Each of the homes, located in Kiev, Ukraine, also use a motif to create continuity through the interiors. The first flat is decorated with nature […]

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RIBA declares climate emergency saying it is architecture’s “biggest challenge”

June 28, 2019 India Block 0
RIBA declares climate emergency saying it's architectures "biggest challenge"

The Royal Institute of British Architects has declared a state of climate emergency, committing to a five-year plan of action for climate change. The decision to formally acknowledge the role that architects have in causing climate change and alleviating it was made at a council meeting of the RIBA. “The climate emergency is the biggest challenge

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DPS Apartments / Estudio MMX + Olga Romano

June 28, 2019 Clara Ott 0

The design explores the traditional type of housing in Colonia del Valle, where the corners of the buildings are cut away, creating a wide street centre. Taking advantage of the space created in these intersections, the scheme is solved through a diagonal sequence of open spaces that go from the public to private.

Waugh Thistleton designs eco-village in a lake to reinvigorate central Bergen

June 28, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0
Trenezia by Waugh Thistleton

Over a thousand houses built on the Store Lungegårdsvann lake will form the heart of Trenezia, a sustainable village masterplanned by Waugh Thistleton for Bergen, Norway. London architecture studio Waugh Thistleton designed Trenezia in a bid to create a carbon neutral residential and cultural hub for the city that would attract locals to remain within central Bergen. “Given

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Bee Breeders Announces Winners of the Poet Huts Competition

June 28, 2019 Eric Baldwin 0

Bee Breeders has revealed the winners of the 2019 Pāvilosta Poet Huts Competition. The project brief asked designers to submit proposals for a writers community in the small coastal fishing village of Pāvilosta, Latvia. The small writers retreat needed to accommodate selected poets with free board visiting for short periods to produce their work. The submissions included a range of building typologies, from isolated cabins scattered across the site, to single buildings focused on community experience, to towers offering views to across Pāvilosta.