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Simple Pleasures: Scent and Memory (13 photos)

April 4, 2021 Laura Gaskill 0

Thinking back to my childhood home, I remember the smells most vividly: the jasmine growing by the mailbox; the honeysuckle vines climbing the back fence; the clean, simple scent of baby bubble bath; even the subtle background scent of polished wood f…

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Phillips Tracey squeezes brick-clad Jupp House onto site of a former garage

April 4, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local firm Phillips Tracey Architects has created a compact black-brick house in west London, featuring a double-gabled roof that references a pair of garages across the street. Phillips Tracey Architects designed Jupp House to occupy a plot at the end of a garden in Richmond that is owned by the client’s parents. The single-storey Jupp

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Office Building Rathausstraße 1 / Schuberth und Schuberth + Stadler Prenn + Ostertag

April 4, 2021 Pilar Caballero 0

Concept. The design won an open international architecture competition in 2013. The concept envisages the integration of an urban office building into a historical environment while taking a distinctive and contemporary approach. Although manifesting as a freestanding monolithic building, a perceptual grid interacts with its context. The development out of the analytical parameter-trio: depth, material, and detailing is most prominently reflected in the outer façade cladding.

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Ten domestic interiors featuring statement plants that help bring nature indoors

April 4, 2021 Marcus Fairs 0
A living room with a screw pine tree

If your home doesn’t have a garden or a balcony, a well-chosen houseplant can bring the natural world inside. The second of a trio of spring lookbooks this Easter weekend showcases 10 domestic interiors with carefully chosen plants. The projects feature plants ranging from full-sized trees to smaller houseplants such as aloe, peace lilies and ferns.

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Campo Mártires da Pátria Building 103 / Pedro Carrilho Arquitectos

April 4, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

Located in an emblematic square of Lisbon, the Campo Mártires da Pátria, also called Campo Santana, the architectural proposal preserved the design of the main facade with the exception of the pre-existing coating – tiles from the 90s, completely dissonant. In this way, the opportunity arose to look in the traditional Portuguese tile factory ‘Viúva Lamego’ for a new exterior solution with a neutral pattern in a pearl tone, with artistic value, which gave a subtle distinction to the facade.

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What is Architecture? Concepts from Coop Himmelb(l)au, Lina Ghotmeh, Liam Young and Topotek 1

April 4, 2021 Christele Harrouk 0

Simple in form but complex in substance, “What is Architecture?” remains an existential question for a lot of architecture students and young professionals. In an attempt to define this ever-changing interrogation and expose the different visions out there, the interview series: WIA – What is architecture? asks four, straightforward, questions to world-leading architectural designers and thinkers. Seeking to uncover their opinion on what architecture is and what it can do, these short videos reveal responses to “What is architecture? What can architecture do? What is your architectural position? and What is your design method?”.

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415N Apartment / CoDA

April 4, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

The couple sought CoDA to help transform their newly acquired apartment in a central and privileged area of ​​Brasília, close to the park Olhos d’Água. The apartment did not reflect the couple’s personality and its internal division was not compatible with the family’s plans