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Pink brick clads Baigorria housing project in Argentina by BBOA

July 1, 2021 Jenna McKnight 0
Baigorria housing project by BBOA

Architecture firm BBOA has completed a government-backed housing scheme in Argentina featuring irregular residential blocks clad with pale pink bricks. The project is located in Granadero Baigorria, a town in the Argentine province of Santa Fe. It is part of a programme in which government-subsidised lines of credit are offered to residents to enable them

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S.O.S. Children’s Villages Illinois / JGMA

July 1, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

The design for the new SOS Children’s Villages Illinois and Maestro Cares Community Center exemplifies a unification of SOS’s child-fostering mission with the surrounding family “villages” of the Roosevelt Square community. The prominent corner site along the active Blue Island Avenue, just south and west of Chicago’s downtown area, will welcome engagement with adjacent residential neighborhoods while presenting a positive and compelling outward image to the public. SOS is pioneer as the first public building in Chicago to fully utilize, and gained permit to use, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). As a renewable and reusable material, it can be recovered at the end of the building life and reused in other buildings.

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S.O.S. Children’s Villages Illinois / JGMA

July 1, 2021 Andreas Luco 0

The design for the new SOS Children’s Villages Illinois and Maestro Cares Community Center exemplifies a unification of SOS’s child-fostering mission with the surrounding family “villages” of the Roosevelt Square community. The prominent corner site along the active Blue Island Avenue, just south and west of Chicago’s downtown area, will welcome engagement with adjacent residential neighborhoods while presenting a positive and compelling outward image to the public. SOS is pioneer as the first public building in Chicago to fully utilize, and gained permit to use, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). As a renewable and reusable material, it can be recovered at the end of the building life and reused in other buildings.

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Counterspace’s Children’s Courtroom installation “teaches children about the justice system”

July 1, 2021 Sebastian Jordahn 0

In the third of our series of exclusive video interviews with Sumayya Vally, the architect discusses how her studio Counterspace’s Children’s Courtroom project aimed to teach kids about the law, rights and equality. The installation comprises a set of kids-sized furniture elements imitating furniture found in standard courtrooms. It is used as an educational tool

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Classy Contemporary Interiors With Deep Brown, Grey & White Decor

July 1, 2021 HD Staff 0

Deep brown, soothing grey & clean white decor shades these three classy contemporary home interiors, visualised by Mai Trang Nguyen. The calming neutrals meld with chic furniture arrangements to fashion living spaces that are reposeful and on point. Each of these stylish home designs feature inspiration for modestly scaled open concept living spaces and small […]