Month: April 2020

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MAAT’s video offers a sneak peek of the Currents – Temporary Architectures by SO-IL exhibition

April 20, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
VDF x MAAT: SO-IL's Poledance installation

The final instalment of VDF’s collaboration with MAAT features a video overview of the Currents – Temporary Architectures by SO-IL exhibition that was due to open at the Lisbon museum, plus a text written for the show by Beatrice Galilee. The video, by Rita Nunes, offers a sneak peek of the exhibition about SO-IL’s temporary

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6 Inspirational Lofted Bedroom Layouts

April 20, 2020 HD Staff 0

Lofted bedrooms are an awesome space stretcher. When presented with a particularly high ceiling, the temptation is to whack in an entire second floor to double up on that square footage, but that can stunt your lower floor. A loft level allows line of sight to wander all the way from ground floor to ceiling […]

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Studio Saxe adds plant-covered athletic centre to Costa Rican hotel

April 20, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
The Athletic Center by Studio Saxe

Architecture firm Studio Saxe has designed this athletic complex for a Costa Rica hotel to be like “a small village amongst the trees”. The Athletic Center is an addition to The Gilded Iguana hotel in Nosara, Costa Rica, a residence that Studio Saxe renovated in 2018. It is conceived as a modular construction built around

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Madalena Bar / Emanuella Wojcikiewicz Studio

April 20, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

Situated in the historic center of Florianópolis / SC in the Central East part of the city, the Madalena bar was designed after a conversation about movie tastes, music, colors, favorite scenes and idols with the owners Rose Bar and Anna O’sfair. The owners’ idea was to create an intimate bar, which would somehow encompass the aura of these references.

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Live video interview with SO-IL and Beatrice Leanza as part of Virtual Design Festival

April 20, 2020 Calum Lindsay 0
Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of architecture practice SO-IL and MAAT executive director Beatrice Leanza speaks to Dezeen live as part of Virtual Design Festival's collaboration with MAAT

Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of architecture practice SO-IL and MAAT executive director Beatrice Leanza speak to Dezeen live at 2:00pm UK time as part of Virtual Design Festival’s collaboration with MAAT. An exhibition and installation by SO-IL were set to open on 27 March as the first phase of Italian curator and critic Leanza’s

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Lisbon’s MAAT museum premieres documentary about SO-IL’s temporary work with VDF

April 20, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0
Lisbon's MAAT museum premieres documentary about SO-IL's temporary work with VDF

In this exclusive movie premiere screened as part of VDF’s collaboration with MAAT, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of SO-IL explain 12 temporary architecture projects that feature in an exhibition at the Lisbon museum. Made by Corinne van der Borch and Tom Piper, the video explores each project through movie footage, models and renderings plus

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Akurad Law Office / Declerck-Daels

April 20, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

Akurad Law Office erected a unique and hybrid building in the small port of Roeselare, an industrial and busy area along the canal. The project is an example of sustainable re-use of an abandoned site. The new office has the same footprint as the former warehouse. The building consists of three playful volumes, stacked in different angles. It is remarkable, refined and very uncommon compared to the industrial surrounding.

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Daily coronavirus architecture and design briefing: 20 April

April 20, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Coronavirus daily briefing

Daily coronavirus briefing: today’s architecture and design coronavirus briefing includes the conversion of a Foster + Partners-designed college building, open-source hoods and optimism from Spain. Spanish design brands “optimistic” as factories reopen after lockdown Manufacturers in Spain are reopening their factories after two weeks in total lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus, with brands to promising to “bounce back” (via

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