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Superlimão uses mass timber for the “most sustainable McDonald’s in Brazil”

September 26, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local architecture office Superlimão Studio has created a lifted building with a tree-like structure constructed using mass timber for a McDonald’s restaurant in São Paulo. Located at one of the busiest intersections of São Paulo, the 2,150-square foot (220-square metre) building is part of the American fast food chain’s “Recipe for the Future” initiative and

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Studio of Metropolitan Design adds monumental pavilion to Delaware Tudor house

September 22, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

American firm Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects has renovated a stone Tudor house and added a pavilion-like concrete extension in Wilmington, Delaware. Led by Elie-Antoine Atallah, Philadelphia-based Studio of Metropolitan Design Architects (SoMD) completed the Katzin Residence in December 2022. The 1,200-square foot (110-square metre) home was built in the 1920s by architect Walter Carlson

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Skylab arranges series of A-frame Colorado cabins in snowflake-like pattern

September 20, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Skylab Architecture has created a set of prefabricated A-frame cabins in Winter Park, Colorado that reinterpret traditional ski chalets with contemporary practices. Portland-based studio Skylab completed the A-Frame Club in 2023 by placing 31 compact cabins in a hexagonal arrangement that when repeated creates a snowflake pattern across the sloped three-acre lot. The 23,450-square foot

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Taller David Dana stacks concrete house on Mexico City hillside

September 14, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local architecture studio Taller David Dana has stacked a series of boxes to create a vertical terraced house on a hillside in Mexico City. Mexico City-based studio Taller David Dana completed the expansive 1,817-square metre design for Casa Madre in 2023, balancing staggered concrete volumes over five storeys in a quiet but urban area in

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Juan Campanini and Josefina Sposito clad Buenos Aires co-op in aluminium

September 13, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local architecture studio Juan Campanini, Josefina Sposito has concealed an urban apartment building behind a simple aluminium facade in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The six-residence building, known as the Virrey Aviles Street housing, was completed in 2022 using a legal tool called “Fideicomiso,” in which groups of middle-class residents can collectively invest in the development of

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Goiva places pub under renovated São Paulo house

September 8, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local architecture studio Goiva has renovated a white brick house and added a pub-like social space to its basement in São Paulo, Brazil. Located in the Pinheiros district on the west side of São Paulo, Casa Yuji is a 2,150-square-foot (200-square metre), two-bedroom house tucked into a 1,500-square foot (140-square metre) infill lot in the

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Studio KUNZ splits gabled Brazilian house into two trapezoidal forms

September 7, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Brazilian practice Studio KUNZ has created a compact gabled house that cantilevers from a sloped site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Completed in 2022 in the municipality of David Canabarro, Casa Trapézios – or the Trapezium House – is formed by two juxtaposed trapezoidal sections arranged back-to-back in a “reinterpretation of the gabled roof

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Práctica Arquitectura splits red infill home in Mexico with central courtyard

September 4, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Práctica Arquitectura has elevated a concrete infill house with a red finish outside of Monterrey, Mexico. Práctica Arquitectura completed the 1,615 square-foot (150-square metre) Casa Ederlezi on a small, rectangular lot measuring only five metres wide in the protected heritage neighborhood of San Pedro Garza. “Combining classic elements of northwestern Mexican architecture with

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Estudio Atemporal spreads out Mexican house to preserve the forest

August 29, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican architecture firm Estudio Atemporal has completed a gabled multi-building house that flows between indoor and outdoor living in Valle de Bravo. Named Casa Mola, the 4,600-square-foot (430-square metre) house was completed in 2021 in a densely forested area. Estudio Atemporal, which is based in Mexico City, arranged the spaces so the residents could live

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Tyreus Design Studio wraps open-air Sonoma farm house in wood

August 25, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

California’s Tyreus Design Studio has completed a timber-clad house and entertainment barn renovation on a farm in Sonoma. Architect Christie Tyreus of Sausalito-based Tyreus Design Studio designed the 2,400-square foot (220-square metre) farm house and 3,000-square foot (280-square metre) outdoor hospitality structure in 2021. The 100-acre ranch features one of the largest organic food farms

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