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Plan:b Arquitectos creates brick vacation home in Colombian tropical forest

February 24, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Brothers Felipe and Federico Mesa of Plan:b Arquitectos have designed a brick and perforated concrete holiday home for their families in the rural town of La Siria, Colombia. House in La Siria, which sits on a narrow patch of land abutting the tropical forest and mountains around 120 kilometres south west of Medellin, was designed to be as compact

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Adjaye Associates designs mass-timber building covered in plants for Toronto’s waterfront

February 23, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Adjaye Associates has designed a plant-covered building called Timber House as part of a developement on Toronto’s waterfront that will include buildings by Alison Brooks Architects and Henning Larsen. Set back from the waterfront, the long and narrow Timber House will reportedly be one of the largest residential mass-timber structures in Canada, when it completes. Set to

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Rediscovered Mies van der Rohe design completes in Indiana

February 22, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

A glass building designed in 1952 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has completed at Indiana University in Bloomington, more than 50 years after the German-American architect’s death. Now known as the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, the design was adapted for contemporary use from the rediscovered plans by New York architecture studio

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1540 Arquitectura references agave plant with triangular-shaped ranch

February 21, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Exterior 1540 Arquitectura Ranch Tequila

Mexican studio 1540 Arquitectura has created a series of triangular structures incorporating a stable called Services Agavero Ranch in the Tequila district of Jalisco, Mexico. Set in the Mexican countryside, the ranch was designed to resemble the shape of the agave plant, which is used to make tequila in the region that shares its name. 1540

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Leaked images reveal updated Foster + Partners design for Two World Trade Center

February 16, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Revamped Two World Trade Center

Images have emerged of Foster + Partners’ revamped design for Two World Trade Center in New York City, which reveal a building with stepped sections and tree-covered terraces and balconies. The leaked renderings showcase the latest version of the tower, which will be one of the final components of the World Trade Center complex in

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