Month: May 2022

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Studio Dlux converts industrial buildings into Red House School in São Paulo

May 25, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

Brazil-based Studio Dlux has added playful elements to an international school in São Paulo that is housed within former warehouses. The Red House School Villa-Lobos is located in the affluent neighbourhood of Vila Leopoldina. The private school, which serves children in kindergarten through high school, is part of a network of Red House International Schools

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Cloud Cottage / Takt Studio

May 25, 2022 Bianca Valentina Roșescu 0

A home for a garden. A home for stories. This move into the township of Bowral, was driven by a conscious decision to reduce car use, for a smaller environmental footprint. A turn of the century timber cottage, in a conservation precinct, was chosen and lived in through the seasons; and its challenges were keenly felt. Uncomfortable due to its orientation, with southerly living spaces frigid in winter, and a western facade and extensive black concrete driveway compounding sweltering heat in summer.

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Álvaro Siza completes limestone-clad skyscraper in Manhattan

May 25, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Siza New York Tower

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has revealed the 611 West 56th Street skyscraper in Manhattan, which is the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect’s first building in the United States. The 450-foot-tall (137-metre) residential tower is sited on the Upper West Side between Riverside Park and Central Park near Danish architecture studio BIG’s Via 57 West residential tower. In line

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N Apartment / Yohei Kawashima Architects

May 25, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

This is a plan for a five-story, 25-unit apartment complex designed in Miyakojima City, Okinawa Prefecture. Each unit is a one-bedroom and consists of a general-purpose plan. The common space consists of an elevator, a staircase and a shared hallway, these are required by laws and regulations.

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A Brazilian Summer House With Tropical Flourishes [Video]

May 25, 2022 HD Staff 0

Designed with family time in mind, this Brazilian summer house is decorated with tropical touches for a relaxed vacation vibe. The homeowners set just a few important guidelines for the project, with the principal desire being for a space in which the family could socialise and spend more time together. The skilful architectural team at […]

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“The death of George Floyd has become a catalyst for social change and urban redevelopment”

May 25, 2022 James Garrett Jr 0
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A promising new future for Minneapolis is emerging from the trauma of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer two years ago, writes a local architect who knew him, James Garrett Jr. I have come to understand the suffering and death of George Floyd (or Big Floyd, as we knew him) as both a catalyst

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