Month: March 2024

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Fortune Farm Store / MuseLAB

March 31, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

Sauntering down Ahmedabad’s high street, one wouldn’t gamble on the chances of crossing paths with an otherworldly realm disguised as a jewelry boutique. With only a sliver of its demeanor peeking through the façade, the bijouterie destination lives up to its name — ‘luring’ one into its terracotta-doused embrace, gleaming with treasures. The cuboidal, jewel-box-like volume alchemically transmutes into a terracotta terrain, its walls undulating, a sinuous island at its locus, and a mystical lunar landscape blooming in the island’s midst. 

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Industry Lanes Building / Architectus

March 31, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

Set in a gritty, character-filled pocket of Richmond, Industry Lanes, is a new mixed-use precinct comprising 25,000 sqm of interconnected buildings that occupies an entire city block at 459 Church Street. Architectus collaborated with Salta Properties and Abacus to transform the 5,200 sqm site into a commercial and lifestyle hub for a new wave of workers seeking mixed experiences from their physical workplace.

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Portal House by Svima features brass details and curved oak ribbons

March 31, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Brass ribbons line the asymmetric portals that connect the kitchen and dining room of this Toronto residence, renovated by local architecture and art studio Svima. The Portal House was designed for a couple who had wanted to refresh their home for 10 years, but have very different aesthetic tastes. Toronto-based studio Svima found a compromise

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DAWN to DUSK Restaurant / TOUCH Architect

March 31, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

DAWN to DUSK, as the name implies, is meticulously crafted to provide customers with comprehensive services from morning until night. The establishment comprises a restaurant, cafe, bar, and a glass house for events, accompanied by a generously spacious outdoor area. The concept of ‘Dawn to Dusk’ is vividly expressed in both its exterior and interior design. ‘Dawn’ and ‘Dusk’ can be portrayed through the image of the Sun when it appears and disappears. On the exterior, part of the circle, representing the sun, is carved out of the brick wall, symbolizing sunrise and sunset. This incomplete circle also applies to different zones in the form of an arch.

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Ex Officine Tosi / Ambientevario

March 31, 2024 Clara Ott 0

The redevelopment project of the Ex Office Tosi, generated with the intent of preserving the history behind them, trough the addition of new, visible stratifications of the entire building. The original style of the building has in fact be maintained both in the exterior faces of the building, which have been fully covered by exposed bricks, and the interior areas, in which the lofts and the  antique vaults are integral parts of the house, which attribute a particular value to the interior spaces. The stratification of the contemporary project is clearly evident from all the additional elements and modifications that have been made to the ageing building, mainly in the superelevation and in the different openings. The new elements however have a specific characteristic: the usage of the same colour scheme, which contrasts the modern touch with the antique elements that remained inside the building.

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Ex Officine Tosi / Ambientevario

March 31, 2024 Clara Ott 0

The redevelopment project of the Ex Office Tosi, generated with the intent of preserving the history behind them, trough the addition of new, visible stratifications of the entire building. The original style of the building has in fact be maintained both in the exterior faces of the building, which have been fully covered by exposed bricks, and the interior areas, in which the lofts and the  antique vaults are integral parts of the house, which attribute a particular value to the interior spaces. The stratification of the contemporary project is clearly evident from all the additional elements and modifications that have been made to the ageing building, mainly in the superelevation and in the different openings. The new elements however have a specific characteristic: the usage of the same colour scheme, which contrasts the modern touch with the antique elements that remained inside the building.

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Situaciones de Estar Pavilion / Veintedoce Arquitectura

March 31, 2024 Andreas Luco 0

Within the framework of its curatorial project The Sedimentary Effect, the cultural organization INSITE invited us to collaborate on its third chapter A Timeless Way of Building, based on the book by Viennese architect Christopher Alexander (1979) and the experimental social housing known locally as El Sitio (1976) in Mexicali, Mexico, through the commissioning of a pavilion with the specific intention of projecting Christopher Alexander’s legacy. In what used to be the “Builder’s Yard” of El Sitio and most recently a parking lot, stands Situations of Being; a pavilion that facilitated creative exchanges and social dynamics during A Timeless Way of Building, an event curated by INSITE in which architects, philosophers, and urbanists from the region and beyond participated in conversations, in light of Alexander’s theories, about housing production, communal living, architectural philosophy, and urgent urbanism in border cities.