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Parcours Gouin Parc Pavilion / Birtz Bastien Beaudoin Laforest architectes

February 11, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

The Pavilion is located in Basile-Routhier Park in Montreal, in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, near Rivière des Prairies and its riverfront linear park. It is an exceptional site in an urban setting, which includes multiple large mature trees. The project stemmed from a wish of the borough’s official’s to achieve a net-zero consumption building serving as an educational showcase of sustainable development, which is undoubtedly a mission accomplished.

Indigenous technologies “could change the way we design cities”, says designer Julia Watson

February 11, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

Jingkieng Dieng Jri Living Root Bridges are a system of living ladders and walkways

Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change, according to designer and environmentalist Julia Watson. In her new book, LO–TEK Design by Radical Indigenism, Watson argues that tribal communities, seen by many as primitive, are highly advanced when it comes to creating systems in symbiosis with the natural world. “There are

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Indigenous technologies “could change the way we design cities”, says designer Julia Watson

February 11, 2020 Amy Frearson 0

Indigenous communities are pioneers of technologies that offer solutions to climate change, according to designer and environmentalist Julia Watson. In her new book, LO–TEK Design by Radical Indigenism, Watson argues that tribal communities, seen by many as primitive, are highly advanced when it comes to creating systems in symbiosis with the natural world. “There are

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tented ‘glamping’ resorts by luxury frontiers immerse travelers in the great outdoors

February 11, 2020 ASC 0

from upmarket tented camps to light-on-earth building concepts, the design firm’s philosophy is to ‘live fully, tread lightly.’
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Nuns offer up convent as wetlands to fight flooding in New Orleans

February 11, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0

Mirabeau Water Garden by Waggonner & Ball in New Orleans

A community of nuns have donated their convent in New Orleans to create the Mirabeau Water Garden wetlands and improve the city’s system for flood prevention. The transformation of the 25-acre Catholic convent is being developed by Waggonner & Ball and Carbo Landscape Architects to reduce pressure on the low-lying coastal city’s existing drainage system,

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Pierre Veilletet Library / atelier d’architecture King Kong

February 11, 2020 Paula Pintos 0

The new Pierre Veilletet Library is part of an urban landscape redevelopment programme for the Stéhélin neighbourhood of the Bordeaux Caudéran area. The project aims to ‘redefine the boundaries between sports, recreational activities and town through a number of interconnected programmes designed to transform the Stéhelin neighbourhood into a major hub for the people of Caudéran’.

Curved tiled wall guides customers inside Hangzhou’s Angelot patisserie

February 11, 2020 Ali Morris 0

A sloping wall clad in slim white tiles hides the formerly problematic facade of this minimal patisserie in Hangzhou, China, which has been designed by Say Architects. Located in the city’s Xiasha district, the 150-square-metre Angelot patisserie occupies an awkward site with an entrance set back from the street. One third of the storefront was

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turato architects exposes wooden structure for mediterranean vacation home in croatia

February 11, 2020 macnadusa 0

located on a spacious plot and set in a rich mediterranean garden that overlooks the sea, the ‘wooden house’ by turato architects reveals its purity through the open spaces and raw materiality. as a vacation home in island krk, croatia, the project conveys a relaxing and leisurely atmosphere, with open areas that allow the breeze […]

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turato architects exposes wooden structure for mediterranean vacation home in croatia

February 11, 2020 press turato 0

turato architects envisioned the project by exposing the ‘strong poetics of wooden construction’ resulting in open, connected spaces.
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Explore Madrid’s Intimate Design Studios Through the Lens of Marc Goodwin

February 11, 2020 Eric Baldwin 0

Architectural photographer Marc Goodwin recently visited Madrid to continue his journey documenting diverse architecture studios and design offices. He has visited many cities and countries around the world, including Brazil, Panama City, the Netherlands, Dubai, London, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, the Nordic countries, Barcelona, Los Angeles and Istanbul. In Madrid, Marc photographed 16 intimate office spaces and a range of studios.