This project cares to solve the uncharacterized and irregular geometry of the apartment, while at the same time showcasing some of its best qualities, such as the solar exposure and its relationship with the windows, balconies and the surrounding views. The ideal of the house as an urban refuge can be explored with a similar importance, stripped from the city buzz.
Located near the Tigre Delta, the house has the peculiarity of being situated in a floodable area, with internal channels and a forest that mostly invades the whole, but being on the side of the continent.
Architecture firm Wolfgang Tschapeller has renovated a library at Cornell University and added suspended shelving, which prompted criticisms about the potential for upskirting when it opened in earlier this year. Wolfgang Tschapeller designed the addition for Mui Ho Fine Arts Library located in Cornell University’s Rand Hall, which is connected to Milstein Hall – the university’s
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Pantone, the color management company, recently announced its pick for 2020 Color of the Year; most of the major paint companies also pick colors they think will dominate homes…
The building is located at the heart of Oporto and it’s urban context is the traditional city of the XIX century with its sumptuous bourgeois housing. It is a very singular building regarding it’s footprint, morfo-tipology, program and it’s function.
When friends asked interior designer Mia Rao if she would help them transform the first floor of their late-1800s house in suburban Chicago, Rao was surprised to hear what they had in mind for the project. Their existing kitchen, the living, family an…
Weiss/Manfredi have been selected to lead the new La Brea Tar Pits master planning in Los Angeles. The team’s ‘Loops and Lenses’ concept was developed to create new connections between “the museum and the Park, between science and culture, and envisions the entire site as an unfolding place of discovery.” The team will work with NHMLAC on a multi-year process of public engagement, master planning, design and construction on the Tar Pits’ 13-acre campus.
the midcentury masterpiece is known as one of the architect’s personal ‘favorite five’.
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The project takes place at the crossroad of a large avenue in intense urbanization and a communal road leading to the city center. We propose an equipment whose urban scale is given by a simple form, structuring the new entry in the tertiary zone. The building is isolated from the public roads by a large raised garden around which the medical poles are organized. These different volumes are perfectly identifiable by their users.
Foster + Partners has launched a sustainability manifesto that outlines its methodology for designing buildings that will go beyond current environmental certification schemes to meet the demands of the Paris Agreement. The Norman Foster-led studio developed its evaluation methodology, which is outlined in its eight-page manifesto, as it believes that designing buildings to current environmental standards will
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