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Schemata Architects designs tiny Nakamata sweet shop in Maebashi

April 2, 2021 Cajsa Carlson 0
Nakamata sweets store in Maebashi

Tokyo studio Schemata Architects has designed a confectionery store in Maebashi, Japan, with a courtyard to help open up and revive a shopping street that was on the decline. The Nakamata sweet shop is located on a once-busy street that was at risk of becoming a so-called “shutter street” – a street in Japan where

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Greenhouse Orchid Punta del Este / Mateo Nunes Da Rosa

April 2, 2021 Clara Ott 0

In times of pandemic, Ana, a botany-enthusiast specialised in orchids, turns her hobby into a venture: Greenhouse Orchid, and entrusts us with designing a greenhouse that also acts as an exhibition space. The proposal is a transparent, transportable, modifiable prototype that generates the necessary climate for the survival of the orchids. Two greenhouses are manufactured, one for exhibition and the other for flowering.

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YingYao Sandware Museum Complex / a9architects

April 1, 2021 Yu Xin Li 0

The black sandware art inherited for 2000 years, the art and wisdom of fire and earth were passed down in Yingjing. Yingjing County Silk Road Shadu Complex Project is a strategic measure to build a “National Eco-cultural Tourism Integration Development Pilot Zone and a National Comprehensive Tourism Demonstration Zone” in Ya’an City under the background of this new era. Surrounding the core resources of black sand intangible cultural heritage, the design built a unique cultural tourism brand in the region.

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Framed House / Crest Architecture

April 1, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

Located within a gated community in North Bangalore, the square shaped plot of this residence abuts the road on southern and western sides. Based on the client’s requirements, our approach was to design a modest house with specific emphasis on natural light and ventilation. The design process and choice of materials for construction was influenced by a cost effective budget.

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33 Apartment / Soek Arquitetura

April 1, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

Apartment 33 is a study into the aesthetic and function of increasingly smaller domestic spaces and its relationship with individual expression and behavior. Where quality is given by the static elements that allow for a generous and undefined space in combination and opposition to moments of revelation and function given by the apartment’s dynamic components and secondary elements.

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Dallas photographer Nikola Olic finds poetry in architecture

April 1, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Skyscrapers tucked behind tower-blocks and nature imitating architecture are themes in Nikola Olic’s urban photography series, which he describes as a collection of “individual poems”. Dallas-based photographer Nikola Olic has curated Structure Photography, an online collection of 88 digital photographs he took of architecture from cities across America, as well as Europe and Asia. Each

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Gridded steel facade evokes bamboo forest at Hermès store in Tokyo

April 1, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Parisian studio RDAI has designed a store on Tokyo’s prestigious Omotesando Avenue for fashion house Hermès, which was designed to evoke aspects of Japanese nature and culture. The 488-square-metre store is the first freestanding Hermès outlet in Tokyo since the brand opened its Ginza emporium in 2001, which was also designed by RDAI. The latest store occupies a prime

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Dragomir Winery Estate / Todor Obreshkov + ZOOM studio

April 1, 2021 Pilar Caballero 0

The winery and the designed landscape naturally merge with the existing terrain. The building faces the beautiful mountains on the South and a view of Plovdiv city to the North. It is an attractive accent – a symbol of the village and the whole area. The winery creates new jobs and attracts many visitors. It is of essential importance for the village revival.