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A01 Apartment Building / Federico Marinaro Arquitecto

October 14, 2022 Agustina Coulleri 0

To describe the argumentation that supports this project, we find it interesting to start with a question: How to reconcile the different resources we have for future living, for producing an architecture that operates within the real estate market? Within the uniqueness of the productive, constructive, and social economy, that is, the resource economy of Argentina in 2019-2021, we propose the description of a specific and local model in which the economy, logistics, resources, production systems, and a certain aspect of industrialization through metal structures became a working system for the studio, in certain projects underway and specifically in this recently completed work.

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Victoria Yakusha designs museum to preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage threatened by invasion

October 14, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Architect Victoria Yakusha has revealed plans for a cultural complex in the village of Bolotnya, Ukraine, to house artworks by folk painter Maria Prymachenko that were recently saved from a building destroyed in the Ukraine War. The museum called Maria’s Way would be formed from a row of 15 conical domes clad in textured, white clay in a

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MAST develops adaptable flat-pack system for building floating homes

October 14, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

Danish maritime architecture studio MAST has developed Land on Water, a system for constructing floating buildings that aims to be more flexible and sustainable than traditional methods. The system designed by Copenhagen-based MAST consists of modular containers that can be filled with various floatation elements, similar to how gabion cages are used in the construction

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Timber joinery “gently cocoons” inhabitants in compact Gdańsk apartment by ACOS

October 14, 2022 Ali Morris 0

Polish studio ACOS has used timber joinery to conceal the functional elements of this apartment in Gdańsk, with the aim of creating a calm and tranquil interior. Located at the edge of one of the few remaining green spaces in the city’s heavily urbanised historical town centre, Hideaway Home is a family apartment that was designed

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Urban Brutalism: Unpacking Renée Gailhoustet’s Trailblazing Work in Ivry-Sur-Seine

October 14, 2022 Matthew Maganga 0

A few months ago, French architect Renée Gailhoustet was awarded the 2022 Royal Academy Architecture Prize. As housing challenges continue to embattle Paris and other French cities today, Gailhoustet was a timely choice, her body of work in the Paris suburbs – stretching back to the 1960s – still functioning today as compelling case studies to a social housing approach that concurrently embraces community and has a uniqueness of form.

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Ascension Paysagère / MVRDV

October 14, 2022 Paula Pintos 0

MVRDV, along with co-architects ALL for real estate developer Groupe Giboire, has completed Ascension Paysagère, a residential complex at the confluence of two rivers in the west of Rennes, France. Occupying a crucial transitional space between the Rennes’ center and its outer reaches, the 12-storey, 8,200-square-metre complex brings much-needed density in the context of the city’s outward growth, providing 138 homes in a variety of sizes and price ranges – including 37 units of social housing – as well as commercial spaces and pleasant new public spaces in a green waterside environment.

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Building Near the Sea: Façade Solutions for Greater Durability

October 14, 2022 Camila Prieto 0

When building near the sea, a project’s design strategy must pay special attention to the effects of marine corrosion. The salt content in the environment provokes a chemical and physical process which incites a material breakdown or degradation, compromising the durability of the building’s infrastructure.