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Concrete balconies and planters front Lima apartments by Barclay & Crousse

July 29, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Barclay & Crousse has used concrete plant plots overspilling with greenery to offer residents of an apartment building Lima with privacy. UN Park Apartments is located next to Parque Naciones Unidas, which translates as United Nations Park, in the Miraflores area of the Peruvian capital. The site is open to the park in

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro wraps US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in diamond scales

July 28, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

US Olympic and Paralympic Museum by Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro has arranged the galleries of the US Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado, which opens this week, around a spiralling ramp to make it one of the most accessible museums in the world. Located in downtown Colorado Springs, the museum is composed of four steel-covered volumes arranged in a pinwheel

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Matte-black house Las Golondrinas is a sanctuary for retirement in Valle de Bravo mountains

July 27, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm PPAA has designed a black house atop a sloped site in Mexico’s Valle de Bravo region with a swimming pool that meets the tree canopy. The project, called Las Golondrinas, provides a house for its retired owners in the Valle de Bravo town of Peña Blanca. “The house is thought as a retirement

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Matte-black house Las Golondrinas is a sanctuary for retirement in Valle de Bravo mountains

July 27, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm PPAA has designed a black house atop a sloped site in Mexico’s Valle de Bravo region with a swimming pool that meets the tree canopy. The project, called Las Golondrinas, provides a house for its retired owners in the Valle de Bravo town of Peña Blanca. “The house is thought as a retirement

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New York hair salon Hawthorne Studio is designed for social distancing

July 26, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Wooden frames, moveable styling stations and plants are used to encourage social distancing in this New York hair salon, which local studio BoND designed during the coronavirus pandemic. BoND, led by architecture duo Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger, began working on the design of Hawthorne Studio in January this year, just a few months before

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Brooklyn hotel bedrooms converted into offices for remote workers

July 24, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Brooklyn’s Wythe Hotel has teamed up with workplace designer Industrious to create rentable offices in its guest suites to cater to those who are working from home during the coronavirus pandemic. With many offices still closed due to the city’s coronavirus lockdown regulations, the Industrious at Wythe Hotel project is intended to offer remote workers

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Photographs reveal curved yellow wall wrapping rooftop terrace of Los Vilos House by Cristián Boza

July 23, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Photographer Cristobal Palma has captured late Chilean architect Cristián Boza’s cliffside retreat, which was built in the 1990s and features a winding yellow wall and circular swimming pool. Boza completed the house in Los Vilos, Chile, in 1997 as a weekend retreat for his family, including his wife and their four children. Having only seen

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RISD president announces plan to tackle school’s “multiple racist issues”

July 22, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Rhode Island School of Design president Rosanne Somerson has announced a series of initiatives to address the racism that has “pervaded systems and structures at RISD for decades”, following pressure from students and staff. Somerson revealed the school’s plan to tackle racism in an open letter sent to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) community,

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Corrugated white metal clads Vietnamese restaurant in Austin

July 18, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Texas firm Magic Architecture has covered this Vietnamese restaurant with white corrugated metal to make it stand out from the “busy and graphic mess” of its location in Austin. The local practice designed Sip Pho eatery for a first-generation Vietnamese family on a plot that was formerly home to a barbecue restaurant. It is located

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San Francisco building lifted 10 feet in preparation of rising sea levels

July 14, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

San Francisco building lifted 10 feet in preparation for rising sea levels

A historic waterfront building in San Francisco that weighs 2,075 tons, the equivalent of 20 space shuttles, will be hoisted up over three metres above ground to protect it from flooding caused by climate change. Building 12, which was completed in 1941 for America’s shipbuilding effort during the second world war, is being lifted up

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