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Terra House / TETRO Arquitetura

August 27, 2021 Susanna Moreira 0

Terra House is in the middle of nature, at the Serra do Cipó region, approximately 120km from the capital Belo Horizonte. With practically a flat topography, the land has several mastic trees – which in the winter lose their leaves and, in the summer, keep their green crowns – and has borders, on one side, with an environmental protection area that has an extensive native forest. 

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Eileen Gray’s E-1027 villa reopens on the Côte d’Azur following extensive restoration

August 27, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Eileen Gray's E-1027 villa

Eileen Gray’s E-1027 modernist house in the south of France and Le Corbusier’s holiday home Cabanon next to it have reopened following a five-year renovation. The Association Cap Moderne has completed its renovation of the seminal modern home on the south coast of France, returning it to the state it was in when it was

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Carlo Ratti Associati designs hydroponic “farmscraper” for Shenzhen

August 27, 2021 James Parkes 0
jian mu tower by carlo ratti asssociati

Carlo Ratti Associati has unveiled plans to build a 218-metre-tall skyscraper in China that would grow crops using hydroponics, as well as contain spaces for selling and consuming the produce. The Jian Mu Tower would occupy the last available plot in Shenzhen’s business district, completing the city’s central skyline. The 51-storey building dedicates 10,000 square

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Villa M / Triptyque Architecture

August 27, 2021 Susanna Moreira 0

A naturalistic manifest: this is the definition of Villa M, a mixed-use complex to be inaugurated on September 15th,2021, in Boulevard Pasteur, in the Parisian borough of Montparnasse. Designed by French-Brazilian architecture agency Triptyque Architecture, the project aims to create a new pact between city, nature, and health.

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Sydney mandates lighter roofs and larger gardens for suburb to ward off climate change

August 27, 2021 Jennifer Hahn 0
Black roofs in Sydney suburb banned under Wilton Development Control Plan

Dark roofs will be banned and backyards expanded for all new houses built in Sydney’s emerging Wilton suburb, as part of planning controls that are being introduced to help lower temperatures in the city. Under plans set out by the New South Wales government, the slate grey roofing typical of much Australian residential construction must

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How Do Major Metropolises Define “Local”?

August 27, 2021 Kaley Overstreet 0

“Local” is a word that is broadly used to describe something particular about a place that makes it different from somewhere else. Across the globe, the “local-ness” of our cities is what makes them unique- in the way that people live, work, socialize, and especially in the way that they plan and construct cities and infrastructure. To someone living in a suburb, the way that they move from place to place might be through a car, while someone who lives in a dense metropolis might use a subway or bus system as part of their everyday lives.

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House MF / alarciaferrer arquitectos

August 27, 2021 Valeria Silva 0

Situated on a small slope in the middle of the small mountain ranges of the Calamuchita valley. It´s linear and outdated development on two levels guarantees optimal orientation, use of views and internal organization of its spaces.