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Thousand Island Lake Square House / Ray&Emilio Studio

July 27, 2022 Collin Chen 0

Fang House is located in Zhangshuxia Village, Qiandao Lake, Hangzhou city. The homestead of Fang House is a rectangular plot of 8mX12m, which is also the largest area that the village grants uncle Fang to build. The house site is located in the inner part of the village. The house is surrounded by three-story residential houses, and there is hardly any view of the lake from the inside of the house. Blocked by the surrounding volume of the building, the architects decided to design the site as an “inner space construction”, with two vertical atriums in this small box. When viewed from the outside, it is a very simple square box, all openings are inward.

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Muted material palette defines monochrome Chinese restaurant by StudioAC

July 27, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Bao restaurant

Canadian firm StudioAC combined micro cement, stainless steel and vinyl to form the interiors of a Chinese restaurant in Ontario designed to “respond to the context of the strip mall” in which it is located. Called Bao, the restaurant is located in the city of Markham, Ontario. It is positioned between a convenience store and

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Jae Jiwa Jae Kasinda Bungalows / RDMA

July 27, 2022 Pilar Caballero 0

Located around 45 minutes from the city center of Bandung, Indonesia, nestled on top of a sloping contour overlooking a valley surrounded by lush hills, the Jiwa villa was designed to be an escape from the hustle and bustle of urban life. Various species of wood, concrete bricks, and black-painted steels are chosen as the primary materials for the three-story villa in order to blend in with the surrounding environment as well as give guests the chance to break away from their daily routines and unwind. The villa was designed to accommodate three renting scenarios where guests can book the large studio room on the first floor; rent two junior suites on the third floor along with living space on the second; or book all three floors at once to accommodate larger groups.

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Jae Jiwa Jae Kasinda Bungalows / RDMA

July 27, 2022 Pilar Caballero 0

Located around 45 minutes from the city center of Bandung, Indonesia, nestled on top of a sloping contour overlooking a valley surrounded by lush hills, the Jiwa villa was designed to be an escape from the hustle and bustle of urban life. Various species of wood, concrete bricks, and black-painted steels are chosen as the primary materials for the three-story villa in order to blend in with the surrounding environment as well as give guests the chance to break away from their daily routines and unwind. The villa was designed to accommodate three renting scenarios where guests can book the large studio room on the first floor; rent two junior suites on the third floor along with living space on the second; or book all three floors at once to accommodate larger groups.

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Frank Gehry’s long-awaited Ocean Avenue Project in Santa Monica finally approved

July 27, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Ocean Avenue Project by Frank Gehry

A mixed-use development by architect Frank Gehry, which has been almost a decade in the making, has been granted final approval to be built in Santa Monica, California. Recently given the go-ahead by the Santa Monica City Council, Ocean Avenue Project will be a mixed-use complex including housing, a hotel, restaurants and shops as well as an art

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Zazil House / Di Frenna Arquitectos

July 27, 2022 Pilar Caballero 0

Wandering around Casa Zazil evokes a variety of feelings and senses. Wind rambles through the site’s vegetation becoming the main source of exquisite sounds, the textures in all of the materials, the roughness of the stone, and wood gifting with a diversity of shades and smells; Walking through the house from the entrance continually arouses in users the curiosity to discover what will be experienced in the next space.

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Metaverse real estate community The Row launches with six architectural designs by artists

July 27, 2022 Christina Yao 0
Make room for us by Six N. Five

Designers have created a number of virtual buildings for metaverse community The Row, including a giant statue turned into a house designed by Daniel Arsham and a home that changes colour during the day. Members-only metaverse community The Row has launched with 30 virtual properties created by artists including Arsham, Misha Kahn, Andrés Reisinger, Alexis

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Chapel of Eternal Light / Bernardo Rodrigues

July 27, 2022 Susanna Moreira 0

“Every point of view is a summit of an inverted pyramid, whose base is indeterminable” Fernando Pessoa, Book of Disquietude. A funerary chapel for a small agrarian village in the south St. Michael island in Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.