Month: October 2024

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Dezeen Debate features “simple, strong and poetic” retreat in Greek countryside

October 29, 2024 Saudatu Bah 0

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a rural retreat in Greece designed by Invisible Studio. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. Architect Piers Taylor, founder of British practice Invisible Studio, has completed a concrete residence named House in an Olive Grove in Corfu, Greece. The project sparked discussion among readers. One described it as

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Omer Arbel proposes surrounding Washington houses with “cedar orb clouds”

October 29, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Canada-based designer Omer Arbel has unveiled designs for a series of homes in Washington State made from concrete and covered in wooden balls intended to cultivate ecosystems over time. Arbel, the founder of lighting brand Bocci, was commissioned to design 16 houses on Governor’s Point, a peninsula that juts into Bellingham Bay north of Seattle.

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A Weathered Corrugated Metal Exterior Protects This Home On A Ranch

October 29, 2024 Erin 0

Prentiss + Balance + Wickline Architects has shared photos of a home they completed on 20 acres of working ranch property. The house layout consists of two roughly equivalent rectangular volumes. One accommodates a couple’s day to day life with kitchen/living/dining spaces and a master suite, while the other houses guest bedrooms for grown children […]

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Preschool of the Arts / Boyd Architects

October 29, 2024 Hadir Al Koshta 0

This project is an expansion of the Chabad of Charleston’s rapidly growing Preschool of the Arts. Shortly after completing the original building and launching the school, the program quickly outgrew the two classrooms to which it was designated. The leadership sought to double the attendance of the school while also maintaining the unique character of the site. Unfortunately, the open space on the 2.5-acre site was largely unbuildable due to the 11,000 SF existing building, the program’s parking requirements, outdoor play area needs, extensive buffer yards, and protected wetlands.

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CELLA Ephemeral Architecture / Os Espacialistas

October 29, 2024 Valeria Silva 0

For Os Espacialistas, geometry is the relationship of affection that humans establish with nature. Cella is a kind of space with anatomical, architectural, and sculptural qualities. At its core, it is a body (cell), a space (cell), and a material (cork). A division with walls, touch, and ground. A place for the body to stroll, speak, and play; to exercise the latent artistic reproductive system within us and transform imagination into a relational organ of poetic investigation. It is dreamily inhabited by a swarm of cubes, sown to be harves- ted, tossed, built, and moved from place to place.

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CELLA Ephemeral Architecture / Os Espacialistas

October 29, 2024 Valeria Silva 0

For Os Espacialistas, geometry is the relationship of affection that humans establish with nature. Cella is a kind of space with anatomical, architectural, and sculptural qualities. At its core, it is a body (cell), a space (cell), and a material (cork). A division with walls, touch, and ground. A place for the body to stroll, speak, and play; to exercise the latent artistic reproductive system within us and transform imagination into a relational organ of poetic investigation. It is dreamily inhabited by a swarm of cubes, sown to be harves- ted, tossed, built, and moved from place to place.

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Splavarska Lent-Tabor Bridge / Burgos & Garrido arquitectos + Bernabeu Ingenieros

October 29, 2024 Andreas Luco 0

Maribor’s coachmen were the most delighted when in 1912 the Austrians opened the now Stari Most – the ‘Old Bridge’ – over the Drava River, replacing the wooden bridge that had caused an annoying bottleneck on the busy road from Vienna to Trieste. The Stari Most, which links the districts of Lent and Tabor north and south of the river at its highest point, eventually became a symbol of the city, even though it left the banks of the Drava disconnected at the lowest point. The new Splavarska pedestrian bridge now links the two banks again in close proximity to the ‘Old Bridge’. Next to it, the new bridge is silent, underlines the presence of the metal structure of the old bridge in the city and distinguishes itself from it with a different material.