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Arcadio and Javier Marín design Mexican art gallery to be an “inhabitable sculpture”

April 21, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Plantel Matilde by Javier Marín and Arcadio Marín

Monolithic concrete colonnades wrap around a pool in this studio and gallery that Mexican architect Arcadio Marín has designed for his sculptor brother Javier. Called Plantel Matilde, the project forms part of the Javier Marín Foundation, a non-profit art association founded by the Mexican sculptor. Along with Javier Marín’s studio and gallery, it also hosts

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Studio Saxe adds plant-covered athletic centre to Costa Rican hotel

April 20, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
The Athletic Center by Studio Saxe

Architecture firm Studio Saxe has designed this athletic complex for a Costa Rica hotel to be like “a small village amongst the trees”. The Athletic Center is an addition to The Gilded Iguana hotel in Nosara, Costa Rica, a residence that Studio Saxe renovated in 2018. It is conceived as a modular construction built around

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Poisson Blanc cabin by Naturehumaine has a white pointed metal roof

April 18, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Poisson Blanc by naturehumaine

A gabled titanium roof and wooden walls form this white house that architecture studio Naturehumaine has perched on a wooded site in Québec, Canada. Naturehumaine designed the Poisson Blanc cabin in Laurentides, Québec with the striking shape to take cues from the rocky, inclined site. Its name references the nearby lake and park called Poisson

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Minimal white buildings form Menorca house by architect Marina Senabre

April 17, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Menorca House by Marina Senabre

Two white volumes are fronted with large openings that frame countryside views “like works of art on the wall” in this Menorca house designed by local architect Marina Senabre. The home is intended to reflect both the architecture of the Mediterranean island and minimal contemporary design. Both structures are rendered and painted white. One is

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Aluminium shingles encase faceted Massachusetts house by Bryanoji Design Studio

April 15, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Project Merri by Bryanoji Design Studio

Architecture firm Bryanoji Design Studio has wrapped aluminium shingles around this angular house in a Massachusetts woodland. Mill-finished aluminium shingles cover the exterior and roof to pick up on the hues and patterns of its surroundings in Princeton, Massachusetts. “The house becomes one with the landscape, reflecting continuous gradation of surrounding colours, adding a sophisticated

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Woods Bagot’s modular AD-APT modifies apartments for working from home

April 13, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
AD-APT by Woods Bagot

Architecture firm Woods Bagot has designed a modular system that can adapt apartments to make them suited to working, playing and cooking, as people spend more time at home because of the coronavirus. AD-APT is a series of adjustable walls and screens that can be used to divide an open-plan apartment into a number of

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Le Petit Maison is a tiny guesthouse in France made out of wood

April 11, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Architecture studio 2m26 has completed this small, wooden guesthouse in southwestern France with matching furniture. Le Petit Maison is a holiday home in Guitinières, France designed to accommodate up to two guests. The 36-square-metre house is located away from the main residence on the sprawling property, which is surrounded by fields, woods and an orchard.

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Roth Sheppard cantilevers black metallic extension from 1930s Rabbit House

April 4, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Rabbit House by Roth Sheppard

Architecture firm Roth Sheppard has added a pair of steeply pitched metal gables to this brick Tudor Revival house in Denver. The local firm designed the renovation and extension of Rabbit House, which is located on Packard Hill in Denver’s Potter Highlands Historic District. It was originally built in 1938 by Welsh architect R O

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Opposite Office proposes converting Berlin’s Brandenburg airport into superhospital

April 1, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Berlin Brandenburg Airport Superhospital by Opposite Office

German studio Opposite Office has proposed creating a temporary Covid-19 superhospital inside Berlin’s unfinished Brandenburg airport during the coronavirus pandemic. Opposite Office founder Benedikt Hartl wrote an open letter to the German minister of health, Jens Spahn, proposing the idea to temporarily transform the unopened, 220,000-square-metre airport. He believes that the project, titled Covid-19 Superhospital

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Goko convert 1920s house in Mexico City into recording studio

March 31, 2020 Kristine Klein 0
Chapel Studios by Goko

Mexico City studio Goko has topped this music studio with a large “skyspace” to flood it with natural light. Goko renovated a house built in the 1920s to create Chapel Studio with space for recording, meetings, hosting parties and accommodating overnight guests. The studio, founded by Mexican architect Christopher Koehn, wanted the music studio to

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