Month: October 2022

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RDR 30 Apartment Building / TAA – Taller de Arquitectos Asociados + MMBB Arquitetos

October 17, 2022 Andreas Luco 0

The majority of building construction in cities is the result of private initiatives. In this sense, working for the real estate market is one of the most effective ways to contribute to the construction of a more generous urbanity. Following an invitation from the real estate company Surmonte, the project is a collaboration between MMBB and TAA, from Santiago de Chile, where the project is located. Built in the Providencia neighborhood, the project is resolved as a compact building with a minimum of condominium circulation, circumscribed by four apartments per floor.

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Crisp Greige Interiors With Warmth

October 17, 2022 HD Staff 0

Smooth wall stucco crafts a crisp base decor inside these two greige home interiors. Wood floors lay down a warm, textural base, and modern fireplaces flicker with inviting light. In our first featured home interior, concealed storage plays a key role in creating peaceful minimalist living spaces. A retractable TV, a secret fireplace, a home […]

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Fiandre covers Armenian church in porcelain slabs printed with 1.5 million unique motifs

October 17, 2022 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: Fiandre Architectural Surfaces porcelain slabs, digitally printed with 1.5 million icons, cover the facade of an Armenian church in Texas designed by New York-based architect David Hotson. For the facade of Saint Sarkis Armenian Church in Carrollton, Texas, architect David Hotson and Yerevan-trained architectural designer Ani Sahakyan worked closely with Italian architectural surface manufacturer

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Palafita do Curral / Studio 126 Arquitetura

October 17, 2022 Pilar Caballero 0

The landscape as part of the place, of those who inhabit it, as far as the eye can see. The “Palafita do Curral” environment, which marks the second participation of Studio 126 Arquitetura at CASACOR/ Minas Gerais, it frames the Serra do Curral hills just ahead as a sensitive point of everyday life. But not only that.

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Efringer Multifamily Residence / Lukas Raeber Architects

October 17, 2022 Valeria Silva 0

Above a metalwork shop in Basel’s Matthäusquartier, eight new residential units rise. Made from prefabricated wood elements, the new four-story building sits atop the existing ground-level structure. On the street side, the addition matches the eave height of the neighboring property and reinterprets the adjacent roof edge as a sawtooth roof. Its shape and orientation also make it the ideal location for the building’s solar panels. On the courtyard side, the building is stepped back as required by zoning, creating a spacious balcony for each apartment.

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Glazed living room features in reconstruction of thatched Nieby Crofters Cottage

October 17, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Architects Jan Henrik Jansen and Marshall Blecher have overseen the careful reconstruction and extension of a 120-year-old thatched cottage in north Germany. Nieby Crofters Cottage was in a dilapidated state when Jansen and Blecher’s clients, a couple from Hamberg, asked the Copenhagen-based architects to plan the renovation. The project involved rebuilding most of the structure,

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Foster + Partners unveils design for coral-reef-like Marine Life Institute in Saudi Arabia

October 17, 2022 Cajsa Carlson 0

British studio Foster + Partners is designing “the world’s first fully immersive experiential marine life centre” at the Amaala resort in Saudi Arabia, which will feature a large man-made reef. Located in the Triple Bay Marina at luxury tourist destination Amaala, the centre for The Red Sea Development Company will measure 10,430 square-metres. It will be

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Surman Weston uses architecture as “enabler for a great cause” at Hackney School of Food

October 17, 2022 Lizzie Crook 0

Architecture studio Surman Weston has created a teaching space for children to learn about food in Hackney, London, which has been awarded the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2022 by the RIBA. Named the Hackney School of Food, the project occupies a red-brick house adapted by Surman Weston into a community hub for the area in east London.

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