Month: September 2023

Promotion: US firm Design Collective has developed a 27-storey mixed-use tower in Silver Spring, Maryland, which is clad in custom-coloured bricks by material manufacturer Glen-Gery. Solaire 8200 Dixon is the tallest tower in Silver Spring, a northern suburb of Washington, DC. It consists of 403 residential units, amenity spaces, a food hall and four levels

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The Saracura House is part of a group of row houses built in the 1940s in the Bexiga neighborhood of São Paulo. In resistance to the current real estate speculation in the neighborhood, the renovation of the house seeks to preserve its memory by maintaining the original facade and the existing courtyard configuration. The original structure of the house is revealed, and the historic retaining wall, characteristic of the existing topography of the neighborhood, appears as a visible element from different environments of the house.

The Mobile Pavilion is a public program designed to revitalize and bolster local communities and urban spaces across diverse regional cities by House of Europe. Collaboratively conceived by architectural firms SETS Studio and PROTOTYPE, this pavilion offers a versatile and adaptable solution that seamlessly integrates with the distinctive context and purpose of each city, all while remaining transportable

from the casa del portuale in naples to the ‘washing machines’ in genoa: the duo travels 20,000 kilometers across the peninsula.
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emerging as seasonal or vacation houses typically found in the soviet era, dachas were often used as an escape from city life.
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Muyiwa Oki, the youngest-ever and first Black president of the RIBA, speaks with Dezeen about ambitions for his term and the grassroots campaign that supported his election in this interview. Oki, aged 32, was inaugurated as the Royal British Institute of Architects (RIBA) president on 1 September having been put forward as a candidate by

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Nestled within a small corner plot in Esher, Surrey, Butterfly House is a new compact home designed by Oliver Leech Architects to support multigenerational living. In 2018, clients Nikki and Richard Earthrowl commissioned the studio to design a future-proofed home for Nikki’s mother so that she could live within the plot of their existing family home. The brief consisted of a two-bedroom self-contained dwelling that includes space for a live-in carer, while also enabling the client’s mother to lead an independent, lightly assisted life well into the future. Set in the southern tip of the garden of the main house, the new house inhabits a small triangular corner, constrained on two sides.