The Dagostin Ballroom / ES Arquitetura
The Dagostin Ballroom was designed to be a space for leisure and family gatherings attached to the residence.
Month: December 2020
A Magical Australian Garden With Room to Explore (16 photos)
With an ornate Victorian facade and a sleek, modern addition at the rear, this home outside Melbourne, Australia, needed a landscape that could speak to its two distinct architectural styles. Fortunately, landscape architect…
andrew trotter’s masseria moroseta stands among the picturesque olive groves of puglia
the dwelling stands as a design-minded enclave of relaxation and rural simplicity.
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Subtle Luxury and Breathtaking Views on a Spanish Island (21 photos)
This home is situated on a large plot of land next to Migjorn Beach, on the southern coast of the Spanish island of Formentera. It stands out for its spectacular views of a horizon interrupted only by the silhouette of the historic Pi des Català Tower.
Xinchang Village’s Central Kindergarten / Atelier Deshaus
Xinchang village’s kindergarten is one of more than ten kindergartens that Open Foundation has donated to the disaster area of 2013 Lushan earthquake. Surrounded by mountains, the site is a relatively small platform in the northwest of the village. It faces a mountain gap to the west, so that people can still sense the faraway from here. The surrounding settlements, while providing shelters to the inhabitants, confronts subtly the nature that dominates.
Álvaro Siza cloaks Chinese art museum with black corrugated metal
Black corrugated metal wraps the undulating, windowless walls of the Humao Museum of Art and Education that Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira have completed in Ningo, China. Set on the banks of Dongqian Lake, the minimalist museum was designed by Pritzker Prize-laureate Siza with fellow Portuguese architect Castanheira to evoke an ambiguous floating object. Its
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Casa Solares / TALLER 1+1 + Fernanda Mejía
Building the void.
Casa Solares is located in the urban setting of Zapopan Jalisco. A two-storey family house within the Solares residential complex.
Dezeen’s top 10 houses of 2020
Next up in our review of 2020, we recall 10 of the most impressive and unusual houses featured on Dezeen this year, including a sculptural Chilean residence and a reconfigurable home in Tokyo. House in Los Vilos, Chile, by Office of Ryue Nishizawa An undulating, board-marked concrete roof shelters this Chilean house that Pritzker Prize-winning
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Park Way House / ArqBr Arquitetura e Urbanismo
This house is located far from the urban center of the city, in the Park Way neighborhood, whose predominant occupation is of single-family residences. The goal of the project, in line with the interests of the clients, was to build a single-story house with low construction costs, in order to adequately occupy a 2062-square-meter plot of land.
Architecture with Built-in Furniture: 10 Projects with Brick Fixtures
Many architects work in a variety of areas, designing everything from the layout of a city block to the most minute details of a building. A common trend among these projects is that the furnishings, the very things that make a structure usable and livable, are often afterthoughts for the project’s creators and only become important when the structure is already built.