Month: August 2022

Bosques de las Lomas in Mexico City was conceived as a Residential district within a forested area. The clumsy architectural development has deforested the hills, transforming the forest into rooftops, streets, and concrete platforms with gardened areas, draining their rainwater into the municipal sewer system, reducing the natural water infiltration into the soil, destroying the original flora and fauna of the site. The property adjoins a federal reserve land, deforested due to the architectural development and the mismanagement of the authorities.

The project had to meet several constraints: to renovate and partially elevate the existing accommodation of the “l’annexe” in order to increase the capacity of the hotel, to create a building to link this ” l’annexe ” to the Bastide, to design a training center with a conference room, a work room, and three offices and to carry out these works in the occupied site and more precisely by continuing the use of the sleeping premises. The construction site had to be governed and organized around this problem. 

A private house at the Klevarie site in Maastricht. Within the historic city walls, this was before an old monastery garden, later a hospital, and a nursing home. But always served as hidden green space for the site. In our urban plan for the site, we cherished this green space. The gate on the street functions as a ‘pars pro toto’ for this project. The charming modernist nursing home of the architect Schellinckx from 1962 still stands at the site. A unique modernist incident within the cityscape for Maastricht standards.

This busy Atlanta-area family loves to hang out outdoors, and they often entertain in their yard. But their existing back deck couldn’t accommodate the large groups they like to have over after their kickball tournaments and more. So they hired local…

Australian studio Hassell has concealed an exhibition space for the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, beneath a grass-topped dome informed by the site’s iconic Lovell Telescope. The First Light Pavilion sits within the observatory’s arboretum, which was designed by its first director Bernard Lovell and was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2021.

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If your plain white walls are getting you down, perhaps it’s time to dip your toes into the world of color. Does the thought of it sound terrifying? Fear not — we spoke with five color and design experts to find out how to go about it.

Can you imagine a world in which the built environment around us is 3D printed from living materials? That buildings will germinate, bloom, wither, produce new kinds of material, and eventually return back to the soil? To Grow a Building is a performative lab space that 3D prints – in real time – a live structure. The project presents a new approach to integrating flora into the design process, by developing a novel material for 3D printing, through which seeding is an inseparable part of the fabrication process. To Grow a Building is a gate into a future world in which there are people who build buildings, and there are people who grow them.

 The house was designed for a couple seeking a weekend getaway in the woods to balance their busy everyday lives in the Czech capital. The site is located near Žloukovice village in a protected landscape area Křivoklátsko.