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Rojkind Arquitectos unveils Ummara resort with 28 villas embedded in Mexican hills

October 29, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Ummara by Rojkind Arquitectos and Amasa Studio

Mexico City-based studio Rojkind Arquitectos has revealed the design for a holiday resort in Mexico’s Valle de Guadalupe wine region with a curvilinear swimming pool. Located in Baja California, Ummara will be built in an area of the popular tourist destination called the Tres Cerritos, which translates as three small hills. Rojkind Arquitectos worked with

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About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition at The Met celebrates 150 years of fashion

October 28, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
About Time exhibition at The Met

Set designer Es Devlin has created two clock-like gallery spaces for the latest fashion exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which compares design over 150 years. The Met’s Costume Institute opens About Time: Fashion and Duration at the museum’s Fifth Avenue location on 29 October –  the original planned opening in May 2020 was

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Caspar Schols develops Cabin ANNA from the garden shed he built for his mother

October 27, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architectural designer Caspar Schols has developed the design for a garden shed with moving walls that he built for his parents into a flat-pack cabin for living and for working. Schols drew on the Garden House pavilion he completed before architecture school in 2016 to create two commercially available cabins: the ANNA Stay home and the ANNA Meet workplace.

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Five proposals to protect Washington DC’s Tidal Basin from climate change

October 26, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Tidal Basin Ideas competition

A bridge to the White House and man-made islands are among the conceptual proposals five architecture studios have developed for preserving Washington DC’s Tidal Basin reservoir and the National Mall. DLANDstudio, GGN, James Corner Field Operations, Hood Design Studio and Reed Hilderbrand all created schemes to reimagine the site for Tidal Basin Ideas Lab –

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Green-painted sunroom with cathedral views features in renovated Toronto apartment

October 24, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
St Lawrence by Odami

Canadian studio Odami has redesigned a 1980s apartment in Toronto with bold and rich features like dark quartzite, walnut and green walls. The project, called St Lawrence, involved renovating an apartment that was previously transformed from a parking garage in the 1980s, with finishes that Odami said had now become dull and outdated. “[The apartment]

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Slatted wood encloses glass Engawa House in Chile

October 23, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

An external walkway and glazed living space are hidden behind sliding slatted woodwork in this house in Chile, designed by architects Santiago Valdivieso and Stefano Rolla. Rolla and Valdivieso completed the house on Punta Pite, an arm on the Central Chilean coast stretched toward the Pacific Ocean. The architects describe the house as sitting on

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Slatted wood encloses glass Engawa House in Chile

October 23, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

An external walkway and glazed living space are hidden behind sliding slatted woodwork in this house in Chile, designed by architects Santiago Valdivieso and Stefano Rolla. Rolla and Valdivieso completed the house on Punta Pite, an arm on the Central Chilean coast stretched toward the Pacific Ocean. The architects describe the house as sitting on

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Daniel Libeskind to create waterfront neighbourhood on Delaware River

October 21, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Phillipsburg development by Studio Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind’s New York firm is designing a mixed-used development for a town in New Jersey that hugs the Delaware River. Studio Libeskind will complete the waterfront neighbourhood in the town of Phillipsburg. Covering a site of seven acres (2.8 hectares), it is intended to act as a cultural gateway that also links the surrounding

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Sidewalk Labs creates machine-learning tool for designing cities

October 20, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Delve by Sidewalk Labs

Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs has launched Delve, a tool that uses artificial intelligence to create “millions of design possibilities” for urban developments in minutes. Delve creates options based on criteria such as budget, location and size and then ranks them so developers can choose the best design. The project leverages machine learning, an application of

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Black monolithic volumes and concrete latticework form Carrizal houses in Mexico City

October 17, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
Carrizal by PPAA

Eight black houses are arranged next to a path cutting through this residential complex that architecture firm PPAA has designed in Mexico City. Paved in dark stone and planted with trees, the stepped path acts like an internal street for the Carrizal houses in Lomas Quebradas, a neighbourhood in the south of the city. Four

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