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NVD House / Studio Arthur Casas

January 12, 2020 Daniel Tapia 0

Placed in a land with a native forest surrounding it, the NVD house was designed in order to attend the wishes of a couple with three children: having a weekend residence for relaxing and leisure moments to the family. Located in the interior of São Paulo, the project consists on a dynamic mix of volumes, creating great spans and cantilevers. It is in these different volumes that the whole house’s program is distributed, taking advantage of the maximum integration between the ambiances and of the amplitude of the spaces. The lower volume, lined with rustic granite and wall texture, accommodates the service, the sauna, and the spa areas. 

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Lakeside house in Sweden is clad with birch slats to match the forest

January 12, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Dalarna House by Dive Architects

Dive Architects has completed a lake house in an isolated woodland to the north of Stockholm designed to gradually “merge with nature” as the surrounding birch and pine forest grows. Sitting on a site that slopes down towards a lake, the timber-framed home has been split into two volumes. One for are for sleeping and

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4 Secrets to a Shiny-Clean Bathtub (6 photos)

January 12, 2020 Marianne Lipanovich 0

Cleaning the bathtub. It’s a chore that looms large, usually because in any bathroom, the tub itself looms large. It also seems to require a lot of scrubbing and leaning over and generally contorting yourself into a few strange positions. While cleani…

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Pruning Secrets for Exquisite Roses (12 photos)

January 12, 2020 Annie Thornton 0

After the threat of frost has passed, hit the garden armed in your toughest clothes and sharpened pruners for the annual task of cutting back the roses. While gardeners may share different insights on the art of rose pruning, one thing is certain: Whi…

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Neri&Hu draws upon Taipei’s urban landscape for design of Kimpton Da An Hotel

January 12, 2020 Ali Morris 0
Kimpton Da An Hotel by Neri&Hu

The bustling city streets of Taipei informed the interiors of this hotel, which design studio Neri&Hu has created within a former residential building. Situated in the Da’an district of Taipei, the Kimpton Da An Hotel is meant to be an “inner sanctuary” with plenty of spaces for rest and contemplation. Although the hotel has been

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Castel San Gimignano Cemetery / MICROSCAPE architecture urban design AA

January 12, 2020 Paula Pintos 0

At the end of the 1200s, San Gimignano and Colle Val d’Elsa achieved full autonomy as free Municipalities and a pact of friendship was established between the two, which defined the territorial areas and expansion policies. Between 1309 and 1320, a mighty castle was erected on Monte Dei Lecci, acting as a line of demarcation and control. The town that soon sprang up around it was called Castel di San Gimignano. Before the 1300s there was already a church dedicated to Santa Cristina located in a small group of rural houses and farms in the area where the cemetery was built. The cemetery of Castel San Gimignano is a paradigmatic example of a “camposanto” in the Tuscan countryside: an expression of the civitas found in the village and its agricultural land, a source of life.