Architecture

Ramand is, before being a project, a decision—a decision about how a cube can stand on a dual-cornered site without compromising its own geometry and without disregarding the city. The wooden volume is a controlled rotation, neither a formal gesture nor an exaggeration; merely the minimal deviation required for the form to settle into the site. Its geometry does not impose itself on the city, but aligns with it. The wooden skin is not an emotional choice, but a means to soften the hard cube. In a site surrounded by schools, the wood transforms potential seriousness into a conversational tone, aware of the daily gaze of children building their spatial memory.

rootstudio’s interventions in oaxaca integrate perforated metal structures to bring public art to public transport.

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On the outskirts of Balcarce, a mountain range is interrupted by a precise void: a sharp cut in the slope, a missing piece that becomes a signal. The house takes this “bite” as its starting point and organizes all its material around that absence. More than an isolated object, it is conceived as a device for viewing: a heavy roof that aligns with the silhouette of the mountain range and establishes, in the foreground, a new geometry from which to reinterpret the landscape.

Live Kitchen fosters encounters between humans and non-humans, creating an ecosystem of harmony that questions contemporary urban ways of living through art and food.

Conceived as a gathering place for family and friends, this lake cabin in Northern California was redesigned around a kitchen built for entertaining. “She is the hostess with the mostest,” interior designer Wendy Glaister says of…

Conceived as a gathering place for family and friends, this lake cabin in Northern California was redesigned around a kitchen built for entertaining. “She is the hostess with the mostest,” interior designer Wendy Glaister says of…

Conceived as a gathering place for family and friends, this lake cabin in Northern California was redesigned around a kitchen built for entertaining. “She is the hostess with the mostest,” interior designer Wendy Glaister says of…

Built in 1811 on the banks of the Rivière des Mille Îles, the Aubé house is a patriot’s home nestled in the heart of a vast garden, a remnant of former farmland. Inhabited by the same family for generations, this site has become, over time, the stage for a multigenerational architectural and human story. Faced with evolving uses and the accumulation of ad hoc interventions, the owners wished to restore the heritage home to its original coherence and strength, while also increasing its capacity.

In an age so obsessed with skincare and appearances, few architects are truly interested in the intestines of our buildings. With a practice rooted in contextual awareness and technical pragmatism, sensitive to the needs of the people it serves and to resource limitations, Moroccan architect Aziza Chaouni focuses on the hidden systems that allow architecture to be. Over the past two decades, she has been working on projects across different geographies, particularly in the Saharan region, actively engaging with its communities and heritage.