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Estancia Lago Boutique Hotel / Etea

February 4, 2021 Clara Ott 0

Estancia Lago is a boutique hotel composed of three independent rooms distributed around a lake. The hotel is part of a complex called Amalia, a project that integrates forestry and agriculture through an organic, sustainable, socially and environmentally friendly system. Amalia consists of an area of 400 hectares of jungle. It encourages reforestation to recover the areas with the greatest level of erosion and supports the local community.

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OMA and GMP design Chengdu Future City as “alternative to the typical masterplan”

February 4, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0
A visual of glass buildings in Chengdu for a masterplan by OMA and GMP

Chengdu Future City is a car-free masterplan for the capital of China’s Sichuan province designed by architecture studios OMA and GMP to focus on the site’s existing geography and topography. The 4.6-square-kilometre scheme, which is being developed within the rolling hills of east Chengdu, will contain six clusters that are modelled on traditional village settlements in the city. Each

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Adding Colour With An Accent Sofa (Plus Floor Plans Under 70 Sqm)

February 4, 2021 HD Staff 0

Adding colour with an accent sofa is a solid way to give a neutral living room a fun focal point. These two home interiors have implemented the colourful sofa trend into modern living rooms that are stylishly simple, giving the hero piece its time to shine. These designs are also shining examples of home layouts […]

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RCR House / Visioarq Arquitectos

February 4, 2021 Pilar Caballero 0

Light, intimacy, balance and contemplation of the outdoor spaces are some of Casa RCR’s striking features – a haven located in a residential area of Anadia, in central Portugal. This exercise in balance and volume distribution designed spaces to be fully experienced, some of them more private and intimate and others in affinity with the outside, all while maintaining the intimate and refuge-like character in relationship with its surroundings. In addition to creating a particular spatial dynamic, the coordination of two overlapping and perpendicular spaces also created different visual relationships between empty and full spaces, between light and dark caused by the play of shadows, between private and semi-private areas and the view of the surrounding Serra do Caramulo in the background.

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Ten escapist hotels featuring luxury cabins nestled in the countryside

February 4, 2021 James Parkes 0
Different shaped cabins placed along a mountain terrain

A new wave of hotels is offering guests the chance to sleep in individual cabins set amid spectacular landscapes instead of in a traditional building with corridors. Here’s our selection of 10 of the most interesting cabin hotels. From China to Denmark, studios including ZJJZ Atelier, Sigurd Larsen and Snøhetta have designed hotels featuring individual

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