Articles by Ben Dreith

Mexican studio Taller de Arquitectura X has designed Hotel Terrestre, a sprawling series of villas in the coastal city of Puerto Escondido, Mexico, that runs on solar power. Mexico City-based Taller de Arquitectura X (TAX), headed by architect Alberto Kalach, designed Hotel Terrestre to be a serene travel destination that utilises only solar power and

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Chicago-based Studio Gang has completed a residential tower in Hawaii called Kō’ula with an undulating facade that takes cues from local ecology. Kō’ula, which means “red sugar cane” in native Hawaiian, is a local plant with a twisting structure that became a major influence on the facade of the tower. Studio Gang took the twisting

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Mexican architecture firm Estudio MMX has unveiled the Progreso Museum of Geology, which is made of multiple structures clad in a finish called chukum that dates back to the Mayans. Mexico City-based Estudio MMX created the museum based on a gridded pattern for the beach-side site in Progreso – a town near Mérida that sits on a slip

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A student project that became a Montreal design icon, a “horizontal” skyscraper in China and the world’s largest indoor waterfall inside an airport are among the projects developed by Boston-headquartered studio Safdie Architects. Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie founded Safdie Architects in 1964 and in the decades since, the studio has realised large-scale projects all over

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