light, material, and spatial sequencing organize the optical salon’s layout.
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The project is situated within a garment-focused industrial park in Guangzhou, where the primary activities encompass office operations and production. The original structure is a three-story, cube-shaped building with a frame system—consistent with most structures in the park, it abuts the main thoroughfare directly, enclosed on all sides, and presents an almost collisional interface with the street front, lacking any form of buffer zone. The design brief calls for the transformation of this cubic building into a garment design office capable of accommodating approximately 100 occupants. The high occupancy density, combined with the inherently strong functional attributes of the office typology, introduces a pronounced sense of spatial density to the site. Against the backdrop of prioritizing functional requirements, the design process is initiated.
This house was designed for a young filmmaker who sought spacious areas without sacrificing privacy and with a controlled budget. Located on a charming and tiny street in the Pinheiros neighborhood, the building was conceived as an exercise in spatial utilization and cost reduction. Within a narrow lot, measuring 5m in width and 25m in depth, a comfortable and spacious house was developed.
beamless steel and cross-shaped racks define the multi-use complex’s interiors.
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The 2026 Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) in Orlando, Florida, was a whirlwind of innovation, style and scale. Held Feb. 17 to 19, KBIS and the International Builders’ Show (IBS) jointly created Design & Construction Week. With 117,000 regist…
The 2026 Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) in Orlando, Florida, was a whirlwind of innovation, style and scale. Held Feb. 17 to 19, KBIS and the International Builders’ Show (IBS) jointly created Design & Construction Week. With 117,000 regist…
Located in Chicoutimi, Saguenay, l’école de l’Étincelle is a shining example of architecture firmly rooted in its context. The architectural approach rethinks the conventional school and proposes a scale that is friendly, accessible, and reassuring for children. Fragmented into small houses around a central courtyard, the architecture becomes familiar and warm, creating a calming and reassuring atmosphere that encourages students to love school and feel comfortable, just like at home.
The Lefferts Manor section of the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District in Brooklyn is a remarkably well-preserved series of historic houses from the late 19th to early 20th-century: stately and large enough for families, the interiors can pose challenges to contemporary living, with outdated building systems, a lack of storage, and dark, divided spaces. New owners of a corner house—a couple with backgrounds in marketing and journalism, raising two children—came to ABA for something “clean, bright, natural, highly purposeful/functional, and kid-friendly.” While the exterior of the building is protected by landmark status, ABA approached the interiors not as restoration, but as reinvention. Looking to retain character while minimizing complexity, ABA suggested unifying spaces and bringing calm and simplicity by using as few ingredients as possible, consistently throughout. In doing so, the design process simultaneously references the house’s historic form, borrows from early modernists like Adolph Loos in material usage, and unapologetically eliminates detail.
This project involved the restructuring of an office building located in the heart of Paris, as well as the transformation of its façades.
Flanked by the sea on one end of the site, Eventide Coffee is truly and well blessed by abundant eastern light. Uninterrupted views and the constant presence of the sea become the quiet narrators of the space, shaping what is both a passion project and a place of pause. The café emerges as an intuitive response to site, climate, and context. “From the beginning, the brief was never about creating a statement café,” the architects share, “It was about facilitating calm, something that felt natural to the place and its people.”
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