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Productora designs pink concrete playgrounds in Mexico

July 6, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Tlalnepantla Park by Productora

Pink concrete forms seats, steps and climbing walls in these two public parks designed by Mexican architecture firm Productora. Infonavit, a federal company in Mexico that designs worker’s housing, tasked Productora to create the two parks for residential communities in Tlalnepantla de Baz and Tultitlán, Mexico. Both public spaces are situated on narrow strips of

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Iceberg forms floating diving platform in New Hampshire lake

July 4, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Iceberg by Bulot+Collins

Swimmers in New Hampshire’s Willy Lake can climb up this floating installation by architecture firm Bulot+Collins and dive back into the water. Iceberg is a diving platform constructed as a play surface and place to overlook the forest landscape in the town of Strafford. Bulot+Collins created the structure with a group of children during the

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Isometric creates toolkit for safely reopening museums following the pandemic

July 2, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Toolkit for museum reopening by Isometric Studio

Brooklyn design firm Isometric Studio has devised a set of guidelines to help museums reopen safely following coronavirus lockdowns, including adding signage to encourage social distancing and using masks as entry tickets. Toolkit for Museum Reopening: Design Strategies and Considerations outlines design strategies museums can use to prevent the spread of infection. “Audiences are seeking

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Diagonal slits pierce white shutters wrapping Casa Ventura by Arquitetura Nacional

June 30, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Casa Ventura by Arquitetura Nacional

Reinforced white concrete panels punctured with cylindrical openings form shutters across the facade of this house in southern Brazil designed by Arquitetura Nacional. Arquitetura Nacional custom-made cladding to shade the upper level of Casa Ventura, which is situated on a corner lot in a gated residential community in Xangri Lá. It comprises panels of glass-reinforced

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Bloco Arquitetos reconfigures 1960s Brasília apartment with translucent walls

June 29, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
308 S Apartment by BLOCO Arquitetos

Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has stripped back an apartment in Brasília built in the 1960s and added in translucent glass to reveal the existing concrete block facade. 308 S apartment is located in Brasília’s model superquadra, which is one of the first completed apartment blocks of the urban design plan conceived by architect Lucio Costa

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Bloco Arquitetos reconfigures 1960s Brasília apartment with translucent walls

June 29, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
308 S Apartment by BLOCO Arquitetos

Brazilian studio Bloco Arquitetos has stripped back an apartment in Brasília built in the 1960s and added in translucent glass to reveal the existing concrete block facade. 308 S apartment is located in Brasília’s model superquadra, which is one of the first completed apartment blocks of the urban design plan conceived by architect Lucio Costa

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Pulleys open wood shutters covering Wyoming house by Olson Kundig

June 25, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Teton House by Olson Kundig

US architecture firm Olson Kundig has installed large wooden shutters across the front of a house in Jackson Hole, Wyoming designed to take advantage of its mountainous landscape. Teton House comprises a rectangular glazed volume stacked on top of a stone wall and garage unit that comprise the house’s lower level. Wood shutters, operable by

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Seven adaptations of Providence’s art-deco Superman Building include vertical farm and senior housing

June 24, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
RISD Superman Building

Seven graduate students studying adaptive reuse at RISD have reimagined uses for the art-deco Superman Building in Providence, Rhode Island. The art-deco building was built in 1928 by Walker & Gillette and George Frederick Hall as the Industrial Trust Building. It has been vacant for almost eight years and is listed by the Providence Preservation

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Hemaa updates mid-century Sierra Negra house in Mexico City

June 23, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Sierra Negra by Hemaa

Mexican architecture studio Hemaa has renovated a dark grey house in Mexico City designed by modernist Mexican architect Augusto H Álvarez in the 1950s. Local studio Hemaa based its renovation of Sierra Negra, which has undergone a number of remodels since it was first built by Álavrez, on the Mexican architect’s original plans. “After some research on the

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Atelier Caracas models Venezuelan day spa on 2001: A Space Odyssey

June 22, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
2020: A Spa Odyssey by Atelier Caracas

Formica panels with circular oculi form the walls of the suites in 2020: A Spa Odyssey, a day spa in Venezuela that Atelier Caracas has based on the sets of a Stanley Kubrick film. Modelled after the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the spa is located on a busy street in Caracas, Venezuela. The clients enlisted local studio Atelier Caracas to

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