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H3O creates “unpredictable” zigzagging interiors for lightning-struck home

May 10, 2024 Jane Englefield 0

Three jagged walls delineate the colourful spaces inside this converted barn in Sant Just Desvern, Spain, transformed by Barcelona studio H3O to reference a lightning bolt that struck the building generations ago. The one-storey Relámpago House is a former barn with a white-painted barrel-vaulted ceiling in the Spanish town of Sant Just Desvern on the

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Roofs of Trade: A Look at 12 Public Market Architectures

May 10, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

Public Markets are complex cases that beautifully combine an engineering exploration with the instigation of a beneficial public function. In fact, it doesn’t take much to designate an open and accessible commercial hub that would encourage commercial exchange and economic development for small or local businesses. All one needs is a lot and a sheltering roof. However, many designers and architects have chosen to take this exercise beyond the social level and into further material and technical exploration. 

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Elisa Ossino focuses on “the tactility of the material” for limestone V-Zug showroom

May 10, 2024 Dezeen staff 0

Promotion: Italian architect Elisa Ossino has designed a “tactile” showroom in Milan for Swiss home appliance brand V-Zug. Overlooking Piazza San Marco in the Italian city’s Brera district, the space is organised into two areas – one that displays V-Zug’s home appliances and one that functions as an “interactive kitchen”. This was designed for visitors

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Manacá House / VAGA

May 10, 2024 Valeria Silva 0

The project of Casa Manacá, located on a corner lot in the city of Cesário Lange, São Paulo, established relationships with various pre-existing elements on the land. Designed by VAGA Arquitetura office, it promoted an interaction between the landscape and the architecture of the residence.

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Powerhouse Sydney Reveals Heritage Restoration Plans for Australia’s Largest Museum Institution

May 10, 2024 Maria-Cristina Florian 0

Powerhouse, Australia’s largest museum institution dedicated to applied arts design, and technology, has revealed the plans for a comprehensive restoration of its three sites located in Sydney, Australia, in addition to the opening of a new site in Parramatta in Western Sydney in 2025. The Powerhouse Ultimo site contains two heritage-listed buildings: the Ultimo Powerhouse and the Ultimo Post Office. The project for the renovation of this heritage location is led by a team of architects, Durbach Block Jaggers working in partnership with Architectus, Youssofzay + Hart, and landscape architects, Tyrell Studio.

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VEGESCAPE Cafe / SUBTEXT

May 10, 2024 Hana Abdel 0

In the past, global perceptions of Chinese cuisine were marred by suspicions of unsafe ingredients and unsanitary environments. During such times, even in Shanghai, where the top 1% of the affluent resided, a retail and dining space known as “Green & Safe” emerged. Now, more than a decade later, what seemed novel or extraordinary may be taken for granted, but I remember the first “Green & Safe” store in Shanghai as a place frequented by the Chinese and people worldwide for benchmarking.

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Ateno lines subway station in “continuous waves” of red concrete panels in China

May 10, 2024 Starr Charles 0

Chinese architecture studio Ateneo has used 3D technology to form the undulating, sculptural walls of Wuyuanwan subway station in Xiamen, China. Ateno drew on the red brick used for traditional village houses in China’s Fujian region – where the station is located – for the renovation of Wuyuanwan station, which is clad entirely with panels

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Guide to Santa Cruz de la Sierra: A Local Overview of Cruzan Architecture

May 10, 2024 Fabian Dejtiar 0

On the banks of the Amazonian river Piraí, the rings and canals of Santa Cruz de la Sierra not only enclose buildings of Bolivia’s contemporary and modern architecture (curious examples of formalist rationalism, brutalism, and postmodernism are evident here) but also include a part of its diverse ancient and everyday architecture: from a historic center with endless arcades and colonial mansions to local markets and sheds such as the pahuichi cruceño.