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Clustered prefab cabins form hotel in Chilean Patagonia

June 19, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
AKA Patagonia Hotel by Larrou

Chilean architecture studio Larrou has designed a hotel near a field where sheep graze in Patagonia from wood-clad cabins that were prefabricated. Aka Patagonia hotel is located on a rural site north of Puerto Natales, a Chilean port city in southern Patagonia. Elements that form six guest cabins and the communal social area were prefabricated

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Huge roof curves over House in Samambaia designed for an architect and artist

June 17, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
House in Samambaia by Rodrigo Simão Arquitetura

Brazilian architect Rodrigo Simão has designed a house with a large scooped roof and circular swimming pool in Rio de Janeiro for himself and his family. The founder of Rodrigo Simão Architecture lives in House in Samambaia with his wife, the artist Katharina Welper, and their children. A huge curved metal structure forms the roof

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Offset shed-like volumes form Casa Aguantao on Chile’s Peninsula de Rilán

June 16, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Casa Aguantao by GAAA

Santiago studio Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has separated a rural house near the ocean in Chile into a pair of elevated structures topped with grooved-metal roofs. Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados complete the house in Aguantao, which is located on the edge of the rugged Peninsula de Rilán on the Chiloé archipelago. The metal roof extends

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Pine-and-glass shelving encloses office for tech company in Ecuador

June 15, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Oriented Fibers by Jag Studio

Architects Juan Alberto Andrade and María José Váscones have built a wooden office in Guayaquil, Ecuador with a wall of angular windows that pop open, as shown in these photos with people wearing coronavirus face masks. Local architects Andrade and Váscones designed the structure for technology services company Mendotel to create a private area for

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Mirror-clad Invisible House reflects its desert surrounds

June 12, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Invisible House by Chris Hanley

The Los Angeles film producer behind American Psycho has created a cantilevered mirrored house near Joshua Tree National Park, designed to look like a New York skyscraper on its side. Producer Chris Hanley completed Invisible House on a remote site 10 minutes from Downtown Joshua Tree, California, that he chose with the advice of British

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Philip Jarmain captures Detroit’s abandoned and demolished art deco buildings

June 11, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Canadian photographer Philip Jarmain has documented the early 20th-century buildings of Detroit that put the city on “par with New York, Chicago and Paris”. Jarmain started photographing the vacant public buildings in 2010 when their fate remained uncertain, due to a decline in Detroit’s economy after the 2008 crash. “At that time really significant pre-depression

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Philip Jarmain captures Detroit’s abandoned and demolished art deco buildings

June 11, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Canadian photographer Philip Jarmain has documented the early 20th-century buildings of Detroit that put the city on “par with New York, Chicago and Paris”. Jarmain started photographing the vacant public buildings in 2010 when their fate remained uncertain, due to a decline in Detroit’s economy after the 2008 crash. “At that time really significant pre-depression

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture at Taliesin is moving to Paolo Soleri’s Cosanti

June 10, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Arcosanti by Paolo Soleri

Frank Lloyd Wright’s School of Architecture at Taliesin will change its name and move its campuses to the Cosanti and Arcosanti sites Italian-American architect Paolo Soleri designed in Arizona. School dean Chris Lasch told Dezeen it was in the process of moving from Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona and Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. The

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Architects and designers create Google Docs spreadsheet listing black-owned studios

June 10, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
BIPOC Studios Google Docs spreadsheet

Architects and designers have created a public Google Docs spreadsheet to highlight design, architecture, engineering or planning studios founded by black, indigenous and people of colour. Fashion designer Virgil Abloh, architects Dong-Ping Wong, Tei Carpenter, Dominic Leong, Preeti Sriritana, Oana Stănescu, Joey Swerdlin, Naïla Opiangah, critic Esther Choi, artist Hassan Rahim, and designer Mahfuz Sultan

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“Stop working on spaces which disproportionately impact African Americans” says architect Michael Ford

June 9, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Portrait of Michael Ford

Architects should stop designing jails and prisons, which are representations of systemic racism in the US, if they want to really impact the fight for racial equality, says Michael Ford. Ford told Dezeen that designing buildings for confinement conflicts with an architect’s role to protect people. He said these buildings particularly represent an unjust system

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