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MAPAA builds vaulted concrete office for family wine business in Chile

February 13, 2021 India Block 0
OFMA in Chile by MAPAA

Architecture studio MAPAA has created a barrel-vaulted concrete office for a family-run wine business based in Pirque, Chile. MAPAA used pigmented concrete to create a trio of arching vaults over the offices, which are raised on trusses to sit against the sloping site. Built for the Viña Haras de Pirque vineyard in the Maipo River valley

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Aldana Sanchez Architects builds house topped by internet cafe in rural Mexico

December 18, 2020 India Block 0
Hñähñu Multimedia Center by Aldana Sanchez Architects

Hñähñu Multimedia Center by Aldana Sanchez Architects is a house in Mexico’s Mezquital Valley that has a top-floor community internet cafe. The home and community centre is located in the Ex Hacienda Ocotzá neighbourhood of a settlement called Julian Villagran. The nearest city, Ixmiquilpan, is 11 miles away. Catalonian-style brick arches with glazed ends create

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Maison François brasserie in London takes cues from Ricardo Bofill’s architecture

September 18, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
Maison François restaurant designed by John Whelan

Soaring arches reminiscent of those seen in Ricardo Bofill’s La Fabrica feature in this decadent restaurant in St James, London designed by creative director John Whelan. Whelan – who leads artist collective The Guild of Saint Luke – told Dezeen that, prior to his intervention, Maison François simply looked like “one giant concrete cube”. The

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Integrated Field decorates children’s hospital in Thailand with slides and a pool

September 13, 2020 India Block 0
Blue indoor swimming pool with arches and clouds in children's hospital designed by Integrated Field

Design studio Integrated Field has created colourful arched interiors filled with animals and clouds to provide an enjoyable experience for children at a hospital in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Playful touches in EKH Children’s Hospital include a bright yellow slide that spirals through the reception and animal shapes above hospital beds and light-up constellations that act

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Arched precast concrete panels form North Perth House by Nic Brunsdon

September 7, 2020 Natasha Levy 0

Precast concrete panels punctuated with swooping arches make up this family home in Perth, Australia, designed by architect Nic Brunsdon. Nic Brunsdon squeezed the two-storey house onto a tight plot of land for a family keen to live closer to the city of Perth and all its amenities – even though it meant downsizing from

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Peter Morris Architects covers Cloud House in pink arches

July 10, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Cloud House by Peter Morris Architects in Gospel Oak, North London

Peter Morris Architects has revealed the design for a pair of houses in north London, which will have a facade made up of pink arches “absolutely everywhere”. Cloud House, which is actually a pair of three-storey homes united behind a pink-arch-covered facade, is set to be built in Gospel Oak after winning planning permission earlier this

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Arches Accentuated By Soft Pops Of Color Add A Whimsical Element To This Space

June 23, 2020 Erin 0

Japanese design practice 24d-studio has designed the renovated interior of a house and design studio that features a bright white interior with many arches accentuated with color. The renovation of the 35-year-old house in Kobe resulted in an open floor plan with the design studio and workshop space on the first floor, and the residential […]

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McLaren Excell channels church interiors for The Splash Lab’s LA showroom

June 22, 2020 Natasha Levy 0
The Splash Lab showroom in LA designed by McLaren Excell

Arched doorways, altar-like tables and a nave-style display area feature in this Los Angeles showroom that McLaren Excell has designed for bathroom brand The Splash Lab. The Splash Lab’s showroom takes over a converted factory in LA’s Culver City area that was originally built back in the 1930s. As this is the bathroom brand’s US

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Tracks Architectes creates colonnaded cinema in former French convent

June 1, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Cinema de Riot by architecture studio Tracks

French studio Tracks Architectes has built a cinema fronted by an irregular arched colonnade in the grounds of a former convent in the town of Riom, central France. Arcadia Cinema at Riom forms part of the conversion of the Redemptoristine convent into the Jardin de la Culture cultural centre near the historic centre of the

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Unparelld’arquitectes creates Emergency Scenery public performance backdrop in Olot

May 4, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Emergency Scenery public shelter in Olot by Unparelld'arquitectes

Unparelld’arquitectes has turned four buttresses supporting a party wall in the town of Olot, Spain, into an arched public shelter that aims to “catalyse activity” on the street. Olot-based architecture studio Unparelld’arquitectes built the arched shelter, named Emergency Scenery, to replace a house that was purchased by the city’s government and demolished in 2017 to improve the areas

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