Month: April 2022

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OR Atelier / LAS DESIGN

April 16, 2022 Collin Chen 0

OR means option right. It represents originality, freedom, breakthrough, and applicability. OR is not only a multi-brand fashion store but also an incubator for cutting-edge designers. Advocating the spirit of independent aesthetics and self-maintaining, OR integrates entertainment, commerce, contemporary art and culture, and other resources to define a fashionable lifestyle with extraordinary experiences and constant values.OR’s space design doesn’t follow contemporary trends with rapid changes or popular colors of different seasons but is inspired by the pioneer of European architecture – ancient Greek architecture. Seamlessly blending eastern aesthetics and western techniques, our designers remove redundancy and complexity wherever possible, constantly search for the perfect balance between straightest lines and smoothest circles, and finally endow the space with quiet beauty in the understated.

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Casa Dotta / Galeria 733

April 16, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

Dotta’s House was built in Xangri-lá, in the Enseada Lagos condominium. The lot, of standard dimensions, measures 30m x 15m, limited on its rear face, south, by the local lake. The composition articulates the base, which keeps, above all, the social and leisure environments, and the body, which keeps the intimate ones. Two subtractions were made on the ground floor volume, to delimit the car shelter and the balcony, respectively. And in the upper floor one subtraction on the southwest corner, to form the balcony of the bedrooms located on the rear façade. The slabs emphasize the formal independence between the two floors, as well as the horizontal identity of the composition. Furthermore, this distinction is accentuated by the covering materials for the facades, carefully used so that the house acquires harmony between colors and textures; between translucency and opacity; between full and empty plans.

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Collegio di Milano / Piuarch

April 16, 2022 Luciana Pejić 0

Winner of the competition held by the Collegio Foundation of the Milanese Universities, the project is distinguished by its close dialogue with the existing building designed in the 1970s by Marco Zanuso, respecting its elevations, chromatic scheme, and branched form. The project began with a careful, in-depth functional analysis and a study of the relationships between itself and the existing building. The 50 residential units of the new structure are configured in two contiguous blocks, one facing southwest and the other southeast, such that the main façades do not clash with the existing ones.

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Dō-maru House / Materiadarchitettura

April 16, 2022 Luciana Pejić 0

The project consists of a reconstruction that reinterprets the main characteristics of the original building, which had an asymmetrical two-pitch roof, bringing them back to their essentiality, their pure form.

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Icicle Store / Bernard Dubois

April 16, 2022 Bianca Valentina Roșescu 0

For the Chinese eco-friendly lifestyle brand, this opening in one of the world’s most luxurious shopping districts marks its second address in the French capital and Europe. In keeping with the ICICLE philosophy, the new Right Bank store was conceived mindfully: a contemporary, minimal aesthetic conveys the brand’s ethos of consuming consciously and better. Noble, natural, and responsibly sourced materials take pride of place within a simple, streamlined concept evoking timelessness and harmony.

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Paul Clemence Captures Burckhardt & Partners’ Zürich’s MFO Park in Bloom

April 16, 2022 Rebecca Ildikó Leete 0

Paul Clemence’s capture of Zürich’s MFO Park is an evocative photo series for Archi-photo, demonstrating the juxtaposition between the metal shell of the man-made and the wild nature of the park itself. Vines intertwining themselves upon the skeleton of the structure create an attractive destination, replenishing the brownfield land and replacing it with a renewed and captivating image.