The Eixample of Barcelona, characterised byits uniform, regular and extensive grid, shows a solid, mixed and highly densified city with a consolidated public space that now needs to reprogram and recycle itself to respond to a rapidly changing social, environmental and economic reality.
Tales from the Altiplano is a series of live Instagram talks with Andrew Kovacs, Delphine Blast, Manuel Seoane, Patricio Crooker and many more. We will be questioning how architecture is seen as a means of reclaiming a cultural identity. How in this informal Bolivian context can we construct a new way to approach architecture. The AAVS El Alto explores the Altiplano as an example to counteract a certain gentrifying flatness of today’s architecture- providing an opportunity to describe singularities and sub-cultures, through iconographic and architectural strategies. In these unsettling times, our Programme has been suspended in response to the current
Tales from the Altiplano is a series of live Instagram talks with Andrew Kovacs, Delphine Blast, Manuel Seoane, Patricio Crooker and many more. We will be questioning how architecture is seen as a means of reclaiming a cultural identity. How in this informal Bolivian context can we construct a new way to approach architecture. The AAVS El Alto explores the Altiplano as an example to counteract a certain gentrifying flatness of today’s architecture- providing an opportunity to describe singularities and sub-cultures, through iconographic and architectural strategies. In these unsettling times, our Programme has been suspended in response to the current
When you think of fresh colours, green has got to be top of the charts. We associate it with the vitality of nature and the hue of healthy foods, so how does that translate into stylish living spaces to help us feel revitalised at home? This inspirational collection of modern interiors show four different approaches […]
different furniture formations provide a variety of interior layouts, adapting to students’ needs.
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This project is located in a charming property set in the midst of the rainforest, in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. The presence of this beautiful landscape and lush woods determines the atmosphere of the place.
A drab 1960s ranch gets a new white board-and-batten exterior and fresh modern-farmhouse style. A weathered 1937 barn finds new life as a barn house with a striking black exterior. Those are just two of the impressive transformations seen in these bef…
The A1 plot is located in a very singular urban area, at the fringe of the ZAC des Provinces Françaises grid plan. It must be looked as a “triangular isle” with three faces conversing with their close surroundings.
Architectural photographer Simone Bossi has created a new image series exploring the curved concrete of a tiny building by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Bossi’s photographs feature the Meditation Space, a cylindrical concrete structure outside the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Completed in 1995, the building was commissioned to celebrate 50 years since the UNESCO constitution was
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Daily coronavirus briefing: today’s architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes hacks for hands-free door opening, the Serpentine Pavilion postponement and the widths of New York’s sidewalks. Widths of New York’s sidewalks mapped to demonstrate difficulty of social distancing Urban planner Meli Harvey has created an interactive map (shown above) that tells users the widths of all of New
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