Month: November 2019

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x3m builds a new school in croatia to incorporate large community spaces

November 4, 2019 macnadusa 0

situated in the pazdigrad neighborhood of split, croatia, x3m has designed a school as a place not only for education but also as a common space for the local residents. the architects’ idea for the project, even in the early phase of the competition, was to create a place for socialising, playing, recreation, fun and […]

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Turkel Design uses prefab elements to construct Axiom Desert House in Palm Springs

November 4, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Axiom Desert House by Turkel Design

The founders of American studio Turkel Design have used prefabricated components to create a home for themselves in southern California that will also serve as a “lab” for testing ideas and materials. The Axiom Desert House is located on a quiet site in Palm Springs and looks toward the San Jacinto mountains to the west.

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Ombra House / Cadaval & Solà-Morales

November 4, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

La Casa Ombra is a patio house: a house inscribed within an almost perfect cube. It is a white excavated cube whose mass has been subtracted to allow it to be inhabited. Terraces, visual frames, windows, and a central courtyard of double-height form the palette of perforation strategies that transgress the purity of its geometry. Located in the municipality of San Pedro Garza García, in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, the house is set around a central courtyard that acts as an extension of the interior spaces.

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São Geraldo Pavilion / SAINZ arquitetura

November 4, 2019 Andreas Luco 0

The project was born with the goal of being a PAVILION that facilitates the visitor’s encounter with Art in an introspective and sensory way, we use sound, image, smell, and route that presents surprises with each turn, almost labyrinthine. We invite artists to present their work, whether performances, sculpture, sound, video projection and are finalizing a musical presentation schedule and some more activities.

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Dezeen’s guide to high-tech architecture

November 4, 2019 Owen Hopkins 0
High-tech architecture

High-tech was the last major architecture style of the 20th century. This overview by Owen Hopkins kicks off our series exploring the high-tech movement. In 1971, a press conference was held at the Élysée Palace to announce the winners of the competition to design a new multidisciplinary arts centre on Paris’ vacant Plateau Beaubourg. On one side stood

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Manea Kella converts art-nouveau house in Romania into boutique hotel Casa Popeea

November 4, 2019 Amy Frearson 0
Casa Popeea boutique hotel by Manea Kella

A house on the verge of collapse in Brăila, Romania, has been given a new lease of life by London-based architecture studio Manea Kella. Manea Kella worked with local office Penta Stil Studio to convert the dilapidated property into an 11-room boutique hotel, Casa Popeea. The renovation riffs on the house’s art-nouveau details, with contemporary details

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Architecture is overdue its own sexual revolution say Cruising Pavilion curators

November 4, 2019 Sebastian Jordahn 0

Architects should embrace ideas of cruising and sex in public places in their designs, say the curators of an exhibition at ArkDes in Stockholm. Cruising – the practice of looking for casual and anonymous sex in semi-public places – can be relevant to architecture if architects can be less squeamish about it, said Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Rasmus

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