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Berkeley Chess School / Rangr Studio

September 29, 2024 Valeria Silva 0

Berkeley Chess School was founded in 1981 as an after-school program. It has grown today to teach 7,000 children a year in the Bay Area and has produced an unmatched three grandmasters. The founder’s primary goal, however, has always been to empower children by teaching them chess, a predictor of future success in STEM subjects.

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Berkeley Chess School / Rangr Studio

September 29, 2024 Valeria Silva 0

Berkeley Chess School was founded in 1981 as an after-school program. It has grown today to teach 7,000 children a year in the Bay Area and has produced an unmatched three grandmasters. The founder’s primary goal, however, has always been to empower children by teaching them chess, a predictor of future success in STEM subjects.

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Gold aluminium shutters create “defensive” facade for Portuguese housing block

September 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Bureau des Mésarchitecture has completed an apartment block in Leiria, Portugal, wrapped in concrete and gold aluminium shutters. Situated on a corner site where the old and new neighbourhoods of Leiria meet, the block of five apartments is connected to an existing, yellow-painted 20th century house, which was renovated and converted into two

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Eight interiors that show the versatility of futons and daybeds

September 29, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Our latest lookbook explores how futons and daybeds can offer a tempting spot for relaxation in different residential interior settings. By providing a place to sit, lie down or take a nap with a compact footprint, the humble futon, and its more sophisticated cousin the daybed, can be a useful tool for interior designers. Our

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Piazza Matteotti Public Gardens / Pool landscape

September 29, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

The proposal for the requalification of Piazza Matteotti’s public gardens offered an opportunity to re-design a historic place from the early 1900s, which had been distorted by stratification of subsequent interventions, and to restore a new identity to the gateway to Castiglion Fiorentino’s historic center (Arezzo -Tuscany), providing citizens with a welcoming and vital space in one of the most beautiful terraces on the Val di Chiana.