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Kartwheel Studio “honours and revamps” mid-century Texas beach motel

August 7, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Austin-based design agency Kartwheel Studio has renovated a structure to preserve the mid-century modern atmosphere of the 1960s seaside motor lodge in Galveston, Texas. Originally constructed as the Treasure Isle Motel by Kotin & Beerman Architects in 1963, the low-slung, two-storey building reopened in November 2023 as Hotel Lucine. Kartwheel Studio and the owners worked to

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Triptyque designs Team USA accommodation in Paris Olympic Village

August 6, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Franco-Brazilian architecture studio Triptyque has designed a building to house the United States delegation in the Olympic Village, which will be converted to affordable housing after the Olympics. The structure is one of 82 buildings within the 2024 Olympic Village, which has been built in San Denis to house houses 14,000 athletes and technical staff

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RA! turns Mexican house in on itself with interior courtyards

August 5, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio RA! has created a blocky house called Casa LL with polystyrene panels and concrete in Tepoztlán, Mexico. The 481-square meter (5,178-square foot) home was completed by the Mexico City-based team of Cristóbal Ramírez de Aguilar, Pedro Ramírez de Aguilar and Santiago Sierra, who lead RA!. Located on a lot under the cliffs of Tepozteco,

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Indigenous design “is the way forward” on sustainability says Elisapeta Heta

August 5, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Most of New Zealand’s built environment has been designed without considering the culture of Māori and Pacific Islander communities, architect Elisapeta Heta tells Dezeen in this interview. Heta is a principal at New Zealand architecture studio Jasmax, as well as a Māori, Samoan and Tokelauan community advocate and co-founder of Māori design collective Waka Māia.

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Arkitito Arquitectura places São Paulo house between terraced gardens

July 29, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Arkitito Arquitetura has created a trapezoidal, stucco-clad house on a triangular garden lot in São Paulo, Brazil. Lechuza House – Spanish for “owl” – is located on a hilltop overlooking the Vila Madalena neighbourhood. The house is embedded into the steeply sloping lot in order “to explore the terrain’s particularities to the fullest”.

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Omar Vergara Taller and Renata de Miguel create brick house as “dignified environment for ageing”

July 26, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Omar Vergara Taller and designer Renata de Miguel have designed a brick home for the residents to age in place outside of Mexico City. Located on a corner lot in Pachuca, Hidalgo, the 315-square-metre (3,390-square-feet) Casa Cantellano was designed to celebrate the clients’ “personality while ensuring comfort and their mobility throughout their home”.

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WXY Architecture creates welcome centre for New York nature preserve

July 23, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

New York City-based studio WXY Architecture has unveiled a wooden, light-filled visitor centre for a nature preserve on the seaside in Rockaway, Queens. The Arverne East Welcome Center marks the entrance to a 35-acre nature preserve and is part of Phase 1 of New York City’s first net-zero residential community. Known as Arverne East, it

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Mork-Ulnes balances ADU on California mountainside

July 21, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

International studio Mork-Ulnes Architects has created an angled accessory dwelling unit in the mountains of Marin County, California with wooden interiors and a loft space. Completed in the spring of 2023, the Crest Guesthouse measures 411 square feet (38 square metres) and was built on the old foundations of a former garage by Mork-Ulnes Architects,

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Dubbeldam Architecture + Design creates “contemporary interpretation” of A-frame cabin

July 19, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

Canadian studio Dubbeldam Architecture + Design has wrapped a lakeside cabin in cedar and topped it with a split gable roof that reinterprets a traditional A-frame cabin in Ontario. Known as Bunkie on the Hill, the 1,000-square foot (93-square metre) cabin is tucked into the treeline overlooking a lake in Muskoka, Ontario. Dubbeldam Architecture +

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Brick and stucco meet for “harmonious flow” of Quito house

July 15, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

US studio PJC Architecture has collaborated with local studio Juan Pablo Ribadeneira Mora Arquitecto on a two-toned house with a brick base in Quito, Ecuador. The 450-square meter (4844-square foot) Cumbaya House was completed in 2023 on a sloping 1,000-square metre (10,800-square foot) lot for a family with a penchant for entertaining. New York City-based

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