Month: August 2023

After moving around a lot and renting larger houses, this San Jose, California, couple were ready to settle into a house their kids could always think of as their childhood home. “They could have gotten something much larger, but they wanted a family …

The Casa Senses is a hotel refuge proposal in the countryside built at CasaCorRio 2023 by architects Cadé Marino, Michelle Wilkinson, and Thiago Morsch, from UP3 Architecture office, at the invitation of Brentwood, which provided all the furniture for the space, including armchairs, tables, chairs, sofas, bench, bed, etc. The house was assembled from three reused containers and a metal structure that allowed expanding the built area, in a box format, up to 105m2. 

Experiencing at least one delay or other issue during a home renovation project is to be expected even in the best of times. But in the past few years global supply chain issues have been a different order of magnitude, disrupting project timelines an…

‘we believe that the built environment is always rooted in the memory of the specific place we are working in,’ says studio MUKA.
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From the pre-Columbian period of the Americas –during which cultures such as the Olmec, Maya, Purepecha, and Mexica (Aztec) thrived– to the modern era where architecture has been influenced by social movements and even natural disasters, Mexican architecture showcases a valuable architectural expression, with its own unique voice and distinctive characteristics. Nobel Literature Laureate Octavio Paz argued that architecture is an incorruptible witness to history. Likewise, the materials used to shape it have acted as protagonists of that history, enduring in many cases over time and evolving thanks to the generations of architects who have contributed to it, from different perspectives.