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Pezo von Ellrichshausen creates lookout tower and sunken shelter in Chilean landscape

December 4, 2023 Amy Frearson 0

Architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen has installed a pair of concrete pavilions, named Lama and Rosa, in the Chilean countryside. Lama is formed of a vertical staircase tower, offering views out over the Andes Mountains, while Rosa is a glass room set into a hillside beneath a horizontal concrete roof slab. Both are located on

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Delve Into Dark Wood Accents and Raw Concrete Decor

November 30, 2023 HD Staff 0

Deliciously dark decor meets raw industrial aesthetics in this 300-square-meter modern home, designed by Elena Sedova. Nestled in the heart of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this spellbinding residence showcases a fusion of contemporary design elements and captivating contrasts. Moody wooden accent walls and a matching lattice ceiling spread deep, lustrous tones, setting the stage for an […]

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La Base Studio wraps glass Buenos Aires house with shading screen

November 29, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local architecture firm La Base Studio has renovated a glass and concrete home, wrapping it in a delicate privacy and shading screen on a lush site in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Known as Casa Mendoza, the 2,150-square foot (200-square metre) residence was completed in 2022 on a 3,350-square foot (330-square metre) lot at the connection of

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Leddy Maytum Stacy revamps century-old university building in California

November 28, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Exterior louvres and faceted canopies are among the elements that US studio Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has added to a 1920s academic facility, helping it achieve net-zero energy consumption, according to the studio. The Walker Hall project involved transforming a “vacant, seismically unsafe building” on the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) campus in northern

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M9 Design Studio’s circular Vishnuvardhan memorial symbolises “unity and continuity”

November 27, 2023 Starr Charles 0

Architecture practice M9 Design Studio has designed a circular memorial complex in India to commemorate actor Vishnuvardhan. Located in the rural town of Mysore, India, the complex by M9 Design Studio comprises two spaces – a circular memorial and community hub that acts as a gathering space for the local community. It was designed as

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Baldridge Architects converts Austin commercial units into its own studio

November 24, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Bright white plaster clads the exterior of a 1960s concrete building that has been turned into the self-designed studio of Baldridge Architects, which acted as the designer and contractor. Called Burnet Road Offices, the project involved the adaptive reuse of a small commercial complex along a main street in Austin. Dating to 1961, the complex,

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Lucio Muniain designs Mexican concrete house as “habitable sculpture”

November 23, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican architecture studio Lucio Muniain has created Casa HMZ, a brutalist house with raw board-formed concrete walls in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Completed in January 2023, the 8,600-square foot (800-square metre) house – known as Casa HMZ – was designed as a sculpture that you can live in, and follows Mexican architect Luis Barragán’s approach

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Bangkok Tokyo Architecture creates modifiable concrete and brick home

November 22, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

An exposed concrete frame infilled with red brickwork defines House K in Thailand, which has been designed by local studio Bangkok Tokyo Architecture. Designed for a mother and her son who wanted to rebuild their family home in Bangkok, the residence has an exposed, “understandable” structure that is intended to be easy to customise, adapt and

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Tadao Ando’s MPavilion captured by Rory Gardiner in Melbourne

November 21, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Following its unveiling in Australia last week, photographer Rory Gardiner has captured this year’s MPavilion, which was designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando. Defined by Ando’s signature use of exposed concrete, it is the 10th edition of the MPavilion that is installed each year in Melbourne. Gardiner’s photos capture the geometric design of

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Modu clads Houston building with “self-cooling” exterior

November 20, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Brooklyn-based studio Modu has created a building envelope that lowers the ambient air temperature in order to help cool the interior and exterior spaces for inhabitants in this Houston building. Modu inserted pocket gardens, vertical fins, trellises and fluted concrete walls along the length of the exterior in order to create “outdoor comfort” and reduce

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