Month: July 2023

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Benjamín Murúa Aquitectos creates underground sports centre in Chile

July 27, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local architecture studio Benjamín Murúa Arquitectos has topped an underground sports centre with a dome in the Atacama desert in Chile. The sports facility is located on the campus of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory, a research complex dedicated to the study of deep space. For the design of the complex, the studio was

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São Pedro Restaurant / VAGA

July 27, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

Located inside the FAMA Museum, in Itu – São Paulo, the project for the São Pedro Kitchen, developed by the VAGA Architecture office, sought to create a welcoming space for a restaurant that could also be used as an event area. The architects had as a starting point the creation of an environment with a contemporary language, adapting the existing structures for a new proposed use, establishing a respectful dialogue with the heritage, and with the works of art scattered throughout the 25,000 m² complex occupied by the FAMA Museum.

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Ulster University Belfast Campus / Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio

July 27, 2023 Andreas Luco 0

The University has fully opened its 75,000 m2 addition to the Belfast Campus in the city’s cultural district. This location is at the interface of Belfast’s neglected and still-divided communities, and within walking distance of the economic drivers in the city core and harbor. ‘This project puts the University in the heart of the intractable issues haunting Northern Ireland’s growth, prosperity and identity’ said Duncan Morrow, Lecturer and Community Outreach Director at the University. ‘Education remains a critical path to a better future. This campus, as it twists and turns in the city, is designed to make Higher Education accessible to all.

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McGonigle McGrath completes “robust” brick home near Belfast

July 27, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

The shapes and colours of local masonry buildings informed this monolithic home near Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by local architecture firm McGonigle McGrath. Located just outside a small village in the Lagan Valley Regional Park, the dwelling, called Hill House, replaces a single-storey 1960s home owned by the clients. The change was made after it

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Primitive House / HANGHAR

July 27, 2023 Pilar Caballero 0

Located in the vicinity of a small family winery, Casa Primitiva proposes a new perspective on the theme of minimal housing, understood here not as a limitation of physical space but of the necessary resources for its construction.