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São João de Deus Social Housing / Brandão Costa

February 27, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

The social housing neighbourhood of São João de Deus, was originally adapted to a layout that followed the British design parameters of the ‘Garden City’ movement: small scale buildings, arranged rationally and in a fragmented way over the ground, following the nature of the topography and adapting to sun exposure, configured in a concentric plan. 

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Woods Bagot tops school library with “tree-like” timber ceiling

February 27, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
St Mary's Calne School library

Woods Bagot has completed a library building at a girls’ boarding school in Wiltshire, England, that features a faceted wooden ceiling designed to evoke spreading tree branches. Woods Bagot’s London studio designed the library for a plot at the heart of the St Mary’s Calne School campus, where it looks out onto an orchard and

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Ten calming green kitchens that bring natural tones into the home

February 27, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Green kitchens

For our latest lookbook, we’ve rounded up ten fresh and airy kitchens that use shades of green to give a hint of the natural world. From soft sage to bright emerald, green is this year’s kitchen colour trend, often paired with natural local materials. Perhaps inspired by our craving for nature during the pandemic, calming sea

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Ten calming green kitchens that bring natural tones into the home

February 27, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Green kitchens

For our latest lookbook, we’ve rounded up ten fresh and airy kitchens that use shades of green to give a hint of the natural world. From soft sage to bright emerald, green is this year’s kitchen colour trend, often paired with natural local materials. Perhaps inspired by our craving for nature during the pandemic, calming sea

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MSO PLAY/PAUSE Space / Studio Jean Verville architectes

February 27, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

Architect Jean Verville explores a world where architecture, theatricality, and playfulness come together to imagine a hybrid proposal where sensory perceptions are called upon to transgress the limits of three-dimensional form, and where living spaces seem freed from their reality. Throughout the process, the clients – creators and actors Sophie Cadieux and Mani Soleymanlou – through their creativity, their mastery of the collaborative dimension inseparable from theatrical work, and their talent for improvisation, adopt the architect’s playful approach with passion, rigor, and sensitivity.

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This week Foster + Partners revealed a pair of Saudi Arabian hotels

February 27, 2021 India Block 0
Southern Dunes hotel in Saudi Arabia by Foster + Partners

This week on Dezeen, architecture firm Foster + Partners unveiled designs for two new hotels for Saudi Arabia’s tourism scheme The Red Sea Project. Set to be built on an island in the Red Sea, Ummahat AlShaykh Hotel 12 will be a ring-shaped hotel with cabins built on stilts out over the water. Foster +

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