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Villa SR / Reitsema and Partners Architects

July 4, 2020 Diego Hernández 0

When older houses are preserved, it is often because of their recyclability. They have high ceilings, daylight, large rooms, and wide doors. But there is one more important reason why we don’t demolish them. We love them, because their architecture is good and because they are made of beautiful materials. Preserve your house, or make a new one with a high long term value, and you make your house more environmentally friendly.

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This week’s VDF highlights include Yinka Ilori, OMA, Patternity and drag queen Peaches Christ

July 4, 2020 Dezeen staff 0
This week's VDF highlights include Yinka Ilori, OMA and Patternity

Week 12 was the penultimate week of the Virtual Design Festival and featured live talks with Design Indaba’s Ravi Naidoo and OMA’s David Gianotten, plus designer Yinka Ilori jogging across London during a relay panel discussion. Virtual Design Festival, the world’s first online design festival, runs until 10 July. For the full schedule of upcoming

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Nova York Apartment / FCstudio

July 4, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

The New York Apartment´s project, located in the city of São Paulo – Brazil, is the result of a creative process that took into account important conditions. The family, consisting of a couple and two young daughters, before moving to this apartment, lived in the Netherlands for 8 years. Thus, constant references to Dutch culture and design permeated the composition process, so that the family would continue to identify with its own home. In addition, we considered the specific logistics of the four residents’ routine, categorizing the spaces according to the real needs of each one. Exclusive suites, one office and a playroom arose because of that.

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Linehouse channels nostalgia for interiors of Basehall food court in Hong Kong

July 4, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Basehall food hall in Hong Kong designed by Linehouse

Films from the 1970s informed the aesthetic of Basehall, an upscale food court in Hong Kong designed by studio Linehouse. Basehall is a food hall set within Jardine House, a 52-storey skyscraper in Hong Kong that’s punctuated by rows of circular windows. Following its completion in 1972, the distinctive building was featured in a number

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