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O Fieiro House / Arturo Franco

October 30, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

The village of O Fieiro is located in the natural environment of Mount Pindo, known as the Celtic Olympus, a granite rock formation from which all the traditional Galician houses in the area emerge. The project considers the rehabilitation of a small animal stable, a 1920 farmhouse built with stone walls of large, well-arranged, granite ashlars, 70-80 cm thick, with a two-sloped roof made of fibre cement sheeting on a prestressed concrete joist structure.

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O Fieiro House / Arturo Franco

October 30, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

The village of O Fieiro is located in the natural environment of Mount Pindo, known as the Celtic Olympus, a granite rock formation from which all the traditional Galician houses in the area emerge. The project considers the rehabilitation of a small animal stable, a 1920 farmhouse built with stone walls of large, well-arranged, granite ashlars, 70-80 cm thick, with a two-sloped roof made of fibre cement sheeting on a prestressed concrete joist structure.

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Neri&Hu keeps time-worn details in Parisian restaurant Papi

October 30, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
White tiles cover dining area of Papi restaurant in Paris

A huge cylindrical volume clad in white tiles sits amongst aged stone walls inside Papi, a restaurant in Paris designed by Neri&Hu. Papi can be found in the French capital’s ninth arrondissement, taking over the ground floor of a 19th-century Haussmann building. Rather than modernising the 52-square-metre site of the restaurant, Neri&Hu has instead tried to

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Ribas House / Estúdio MRGB

October 30, 2020 Valeria Silva 0

Placed 20 kilometers apart from Brasília’s Plano Piloto center, the Casa Ribas overhangs in a plot with reduced dimensions and appropriates it in a way to balance the privacy-conviviality binom. 

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Powerhouse Telemark / Snøhetta

October 30, 2020 Paula Pintos 0

The energy sector and building industry account for over 40% of the global industry’s heat-trapping emissions combined. As the world’s population and the severity of the climate crisis continue to grow, precipitating global disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, architects are challenged to work across industries to build more responsibly.

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Split Bridge / Jane Z Studio

October 30, 2020 Collin Chen 0

Shenzhen is the fastest-growing city in the world, expanding over 1000 hectares of new construction land each year. Xiaomeisha is located in Dapeng Bay in the east part of the city, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the water on one side. It has always been a valuable natural spot for people to escape from urban chaos. Here the Split Bridge is designed for hikers to cross the lake. The idea of splitting the footbridge into two paths is to open up choices of calm and relax for urbanites.

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The Renovation of Ankang Library / UUA (United Units Architects)

October 29, 2020 罗靖琳 - Jinglin Luo 0

Project Background: Ankang is a prefecture-level city located in the south of Shanxi Province in the People’s Republic of China, bordering Hubei province to the east, Chongqing municipality to the south, and Sichuan province to the southwest. Located in the old Ankang city, the original library was opened in 1984 and over the duration of time, the library building and its facilities have started to fall behind the fast-developing information age in terms of hardware and software, prompting a need for a comprehensive regeneration program.

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Moshref Villa / mrk office

October 29, 2020 Hana Abdel 0

When the Moshref project was introduced to us, the main problem of the employer was the overlooking of the neighbors living in the suburban to the interior spaces of the villa and the landscape (and the pool). He wanted the security and facilities of this coastal and the suburbia and wanted the interior spaces to be completely visually transparent to the outside spaces and to have a complete view to the outside and people in the public areas of the suburbia not to see inside.