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Creative Lab House / Meeta Jain Architects

October 1, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

We began with the very fundamentals, as house being ones ‘heaven’, a private ‘container’ through which one also connects to “elements of nature and society”. It had to be expressive of ones nature by being that friendly place where a passer by felt invited. The house form was boiled down to 2 essential components i.e. “a pavilion and a box”, a dualityexplored programmatically and experientially as private /public, open /closed transparent/opaque throughout. Exploiting the full potential of the site facing an empty green plot and working with the limiting by-laws imaginatively became an overriding concern too.

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Modern Home / 5G Studio Collaborative

October 1, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

The Winnwood Residence is a new 4,600 SF, single-story, a single-family contemporary residence that gives the owner the sense of living in the outdoor landscape year-round. The owner is an interior designer who has a deep love for gardening. The house is surrounded on all four sides by extensively landscaped areas, one of the sides being a conservation park managed by the Texas Parks & Wildlife and the US Dept. of Interior. 

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25 Kent Building / Gensler + HWKN

October 1, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

25 Kent is Brooklyn’s first ground-up, speculative commercial building in 40 years and Williamsburg’s only all-new office building providing unobstructed views of the soon-to-be-expanded Bushwick Inlet Park, East River, and Manhattan skyline.

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The Axiom Desert House Draws Inspiration From Mid-Century Modern Design

October 1, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Chase Daniel Turkel Design has recently completed the Axiom Desert House, a modern house in Palm Springs, California, that draws inspiration from mid-century design. At the front of the house is a small entertaining area with a bocce court surrounded by landscaping, and an open carport. Photography by Chase Daniel A light blue […]

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House in Pozuelo / Carlos de Riaño Lozano

October 1, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

It is a large single-family house, located in a luxury suburb. The plot of 6,600 square meters has a strategic location, in a dominant point of the suburb, with a uniform downward slope from south to north and privileged views to the east (Madrid) and to the north (Sierra de Guadarrama).

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London’s Bala Baya restaurant is a “poem to Tel Aviv”

October 1, 2019 Dezeen staff 0
Bala Baya restaurant designed by Afroditi Krassa

Design studio AfroditiKrassa looked to the streets of Tel Aviv to create the interiors of central London’s Bala Baya restaurant, which was the venue for the 2019 Dezeen Awards judges dinner. Taking over a disused railway arch in London’s Southwark neighbourhood, Bala Baya has been designed by AfroditiKrassa to be “a poem to Tel Aviv

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This House Was Built Into A Polish Hillside

October 1, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Pawel Ulatowski Architect Przemek Olczyk of Mobius Architekci, has designed a modern house that’s nestled into the hillside in Warmia, a historical region in northern Poland. The design of the house represents the owners desire to have a home that would be secluded, integrate with the surrounding landscape, and create a closeness to nature. […]

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Yves Behar opens third Canopy co-working location in historic San Francisco building

October 1, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Canopy Workspace by Yves Behar and Amir Mortazavi

Northern California’s coastal landscape and foggy weather influenced the design of the latest office by Canopy, a co-working company founded by designer Yves Behar, developer Amir Mortazavi and entrepreneur Steve Mohebi. Located in the San Francisco’s Financial District, the new Canopy office occupies a five-storey building dating back to 1890. The ground floor contains commercial

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Black Body Mountain Shelter / Andrea Cassi + Michele Versaci

October 1, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

A Black Opaque Body at High Altitude
In physics a black body is an ideal object that totally absorbs the energy, re-irradiating it in the surrounding environment. Leaning on a small pass beneath the last slopes near the summit,  Bivacco Matteo Corradini is a dark prism with an hexagonal profile, nestled in the alpine landscape. A metal shell capable of protecting it from high altitude extreme weather conditions and absorbing the maximum solar radiation.