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David Guambo builds his stilted studio Kusy Kawsay in Ecuadorian hillside

July 25, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Kusy Kawsay by David Guambo and Al Borde

Architecture student David Guambo has built himself a small studio in rural Ecuador with a straw roof and wood framing. Kusy Kawsay is a small hut lifted on wooden stilts that is nestled into a hillside in Sucre, Ecuador. Its name translates to Passionate Life from Kichwa, a dialect of Quechua, a language used in

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Three pavilions form Wasatch House by Olson Kundig in Utah

July 23, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Wasatch House by Olson Kundig

US architecture firm Olson Kundig has connected three pavilions with covered glass walkways to form this house in Utah surrounded by mountains. Wasatch House is located in Salt Lake City, Utah on a site that faces the Oquirrh Mountains, Wasatch Mountains and Mount Olympus. The 18,140-square-foot (1,685-square-metre) residence comprises three buildings bridged together with enclosed

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Farnsworth House installation replicates Edith Farnsworth’s original decor

July 22, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Edith Farnsworth’s Country House

Farnsworth House, the glass house designed by Mies van der Rohe in Illinois, has been redecorated for an installation to feature furnishings and personal belongings of its original client Edith Farnsworth. Edith Farnsworth’s Country House is the centrepiece of an exhibition series called Edith Farnsworth Reconsidered that explores the house’s namesake. The installation marks the

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Canadian surf town informs design for taco restaurant by September

July 21, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Tacofino by September

Natural colours and beach textures from a Canadian surf town informed the design of this Vancouver restaurant by local studio September. Kit’s Burrito Bar is located on West 4th Street in the city’s Kitsilano neighbourhood. It is the latest outpost of Tacofino, a Mexican restaurant that serves tacos and burritos in a Californian style. September

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Atelier Schwimmer designs two-toned Chalet Lakeside in Canada

July 20, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Chalet Lakeside by Atelier Schwimmer

Canadian architecture firm Atelier Schwimmer has contrasted planks of charred wood with pale wood to form a cabin for brothers overlooking a lake in Canada. Chalet Lakeside is located on a wooded site that faces Lake Brome in a small town east of Montreal. Atelier Schwimmer constructed the 3,200-square-foot (297-square-metre) cabin for two siblings who

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Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura remodels 1960s Brasília apartment

July 16, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
308 Apartment by Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura

Brazilian studio Debaixo do Bloco Arquitetura has opened up the layout of an apartment in Brasília built in the 1960s to meet a family’s contemporary requirements. The remodelled apartment is located in residential building 308S in Brasília’s model superquadra, one of the first completed apartment blocks of the urban design scheme conceived by architect Lucio

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Overhanging roofs shade outdoor areas of cedar-clad Seaside Reef House

July 15, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Seaside Reef by Alec Petros

Long roofs extend from this cedar residence in California that architect Alec Petros designed for a client he met in a bookstore. Seaside Reef House is situated on an irregularly-shaped lot nearby to beaches in Solana Beach, California, a coastal city north of San Diego. Petros met his Australian client in a local bookstore when

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Weber Arquitectos builds San Simon Cabins from volcanic rock

July 12, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
San Simon Cabins by Weber Arquitectos

Mexican architecture studio Weber Arquitectos has used grey volcanic stone to construct five cabins on a forested site in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. San Simon Cabins is a compound that comprises five individual structures including guest houses, a main lodge and a recreational building on a wooded site in the scenic Valle de Bravo region,

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Renovated Montreal house by Atelier Barda contrasts black and white

July 10, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Black furniture provides a stark contrast to the white interior of this Montreal residence, which has been overhauled by local architecture studio Atelier Barda. Atelier Barda’s Portland Residence project involved adding an extension to the rear of a historic stone house located in Montreal suburb Mount-Royal, and reconfiguring the floor plan to improve the flow

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Oyler Wu Collaborative repurposes Eero Saarinen bank teller canopies for installation

July 8, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
The Exchange by Oyler Wu Collaborative

Teller booths of a former bank building designed by Eero Saarinen in Columbus, Indiana are integrated into this white pavilion by architecture studio Oyler Wu Collaborative. The Exchange is located next to the Irwin Conference Center, formerly the Irwin Union Bank, which was completed by modernist architect Saarinen in 1954. The white pavilion references the

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