Month: February 2023

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Fire Pit Tower / Atelier Guo

February 9, 2023 Collin Chen 0

Built on the riverside terrace of Yangshuo Sugar House, Fire Pit Tower is a central installation for the 2021 New Year’s celebration, which will begin with a burning ceremony to welcome the new year. The installation is located on a site that was once a dock for the old sugar factory to deliver goods, and is now the space facing the landscape of Li River, making it an iconic place. After burning during the New Year’s celebration in 2021, Fire Pit Tower will be rebuilt and permanently preserved on the Sugar House grounds, guiding people from the hotel’s main building to Li River bank at an axially turning point of the site.

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Car lift allows residents to drive into all apartments in Bentley’s Miami Beach skyscraper

February 8, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Sieger Suarez Architects and Dezer Development have released footage detailing the design of a lift that will allow residents to drive vehicles directly into apartments on all levels of the 61-storey skyscraper in Miami Beach. The Bentley Residences is a joint project between Sieger Suarez Architects (SSA), Bentley and Dezer Development. SSA came up with

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Minjukim Anguk Flagship Store / studio fragment

February 8, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

MinJuKim is the fashion brand of famous Korean fashion designer Minju Kim. MinjuKim’s first showroom is located in Bukchon, an area where you can feel the oldest tradition in Seoul. Bukchon has many hanoks, and Korean traditional houses, and is an area where many tourists come from abroad. Hanok, a traditional Korean house, is generally made of wood, but the building on the site where Minju Kim’s showroom was planned was unusually a modern improved hanok with a concrete structure and a combination of hanok shapes. We were interested in the architecture of the time when structure and style were combined to create a new format, and it was not as if it were made as planned, but as an experiment of ideas and forms of architecture at the time.

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Charles F. Bloszies inserts glass addition into San Francisco cathedral complex

February 8, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Office of Charles F. Bloszies has completed an extension and renovation of the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco. The two-storey addition is part of the Cathedral Close, an entire city block in Nob Hill that includes the Grace Cathedral. Completed in 2022 while the school was in use, the project includes

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Chalet A / Matière Première Architecture

February 8, 2023 Paula Pintos 0

Charmed by the ever-so-popular typology of the A-frame cottage, the new owners of this 1950s property aspired to renovate and revitalize the cottage into a 21st-century home. Located in the Eastern Townships, near Montréal, this unique structure sits on an evergreen forest, nearly touching the water on its breathtaking waterplane. Inaccessibility during the long winter months greatly contributed to accumulated neglect, essentially exposing the old cabin to years of harsh Canadian winters.

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Common Shed / GOAA – Gusmão Otero Arquitetos Associados + Goma Oficina Colaborativa

February 8, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

Developed in partnership with GOMA Oficina Colaborativa, this project is a remodeling of a commercial complex to shelter the “Galpão Comum”, an independent space dedicated to the practice and research on the city and image of latinamerican territory. Located on the ground floor of a residential building in the Santa Cecília neighborhood the space aims to hold a plurality of simultaneous activities. In order to do that, the project seeks to accommodate individual work to collective activities, open and closed meeting rooms, and indoor and outdoor relaxing areas, including a commercial point to activate the street facade.