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Side Angle Side transforms mid-century Austin post office into restaurant

January 17, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Texas architecture studio Side Angle Side has adapted a 1960s post office into a food market and restaurant in Austin. Opened in October 2023 in the Hyde Park area, Tiny Grocer serves as a speciality market, bar and cafe while Bureau de Poste is a modern French bistro led by celebrity chef Jo Chan. Austin-based

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Cantilevered Serra Residence in Brazil includes stair-side slides

January 12, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Brazilian architect Marcelo Couto and landscape designer Rodrigo Oliveira have teamed up to create a cantilevering house with multiple courtyards and water features and an interior staircase with a slide attached in Fazenda da Grama, São Paulo. The concrete house with delicate wooden screens and heavy weathering steel elements is known as the Serra Residence.

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Lima cultural facility features pink walls and traditional construction techniques

January 9, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Peruvian architects Roman Bauer Arquitectos and ESArquitectura teamed up to design a cultural institution in Lima that includes a renovation and a new building with vernacular methods and pink accents. The 640-square metre (6,900 square-foot) Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA) was completed in 2022 in the historic Barranco district of Lima for the French

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Method Architecture outfits its Houston office with vibrant mural

January 4, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Texas studio Method Architecture has completed an office for itself in Houston with maximalist design, vibrant colours and a mural at its centre. The 8,612-square foot (800-square metre) studio was completed in 2023 with a reception area, open office plan, private and collaborative meeting spaces and staff lounges. Located in the mixed-use East River development,

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Michael Hsu converts 1900s Austin house into luxury office

January 3, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Texas studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture adapted a 110-year-old bungalow into an office for technology and bio-science investment firm 8VC in Austin. Completed in 2023, 8VC’s new Austin headquarters are located on a half-acre lot along South Congress Avenue, a busy entertainment district of the Texas capital. Originally constructed in 1912, the home was

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Ménard Dworkind outfits Montreal restaurant with custom wine storage

January 2, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Canadian studio Ménard Dworkind has created an intimate French restaurant in the Villeray neighborhood of Montreal complete with warm interiors and a custom white oak wine cellar. Known as Casavant, the 850-square foot (80-square metre) brasserie-style restaurant was completed in September 2023 on the ground floor of a 1920’s residential building, replacing a sandwich shop.

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25:8 Architecture + Urban Design adds “bird wing” extension to Ottawa house

December 28, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Canadian studio 25:8 Architecture + Urban Design has added a cedar-clad extension with a shape informed by birds in flight to a house in Ottawa. Named Ferndale Flightdeck, the 400-square foot (37-square metre) extension holds a recreation room, yoga studio, home office and a rooftop observation deck that allows the owners to watch birds in

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Artistree raises a telescopic treehouse in California

December 27, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

US company Artistree Home designed a treehouse with vaulted form, raised off the ground in Sonoma County, California. Completed in 2023, the latest design — known as Spyglass by Hometree — is a 300-square foot (28-square-metre) residence in an 11-acre (5-hectare) forested lot in Occidental, California. “The design for Spyglass came from that whimsical childhood

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McLeod Bovell uses cantilevers in “fortress-like” West Vancouver house

December 22, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local design studio McLeod Bovell has completed a seaside home with a dramatic cantilever and multiple lightwells in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Vancouver-based McLeod Bovell Modern Houses designed the 10,940-square foot (1,016-square metre) Liminal House in 2022. “The ‘liminal’ is a transformational state between where one thing begins and another ends; the position where something

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Lakeside mass-timber theatre in Chile features “box within a box” construction

December 19, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

An architecture team of Nicolás Norero, Leonardo Quinteros and Tomás Villalón has created a community theatre out of glued laminated timber along a lake’s shoreline in Panguipulli, Chile. The Theater of the Arts of Panguipulli (Teatro Educativo de las Artes) was completed in November 2022 on the banks of Panguipulli Lake. The compact theatre serves

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