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Espacio 18 Arquitectura cantilevers a sculptural concrete house in Oaxaca

April 13, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Mexican studio Espacio 18 Arquitectura has balanced an expansive concrete house designed like a “rock carved to create a sculpture” on a hillside in Oaxaca. Known as Casa del Alma, the 460-square metre (4,950-square foot) house was completed in 2023 as the client’s “last refuge” after a “long life of work and travel”, according to

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Black staircases link SC Workplace by Behnisch Architekten

February 25, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

A variety of black staircases dogleg and spiral between the levels of this office in Southern California, designed by global firm Behnisch Architekten. Tasked with bringing personality to a four-storey “developer box”, Behnisch Architekten 110,000 square feet (10,220 square metres) for an undisclosed client. “We had the opportunity to work with a great client to

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Splyce Design centres Vancouver house around “weightless” staircase

February 15, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Splyce Design has designed a light-filled, angled house with glazed corners and a sculptural staircase overlooking the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver, British Columbia. Completed in 2021, the 5,700-square-foot (530-square-metre) residence, known as Yield House, is oriented east-west and responds to the varied setting in both directions. The front of the house – functioning

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BattersbyHowat balances a metal-clad cabin on a mountainside

January 30, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Vancouver-based studio BattersbyHowat Architects has completed a parallelogram-shaped, mountainside home clad in standing seam metal with a detached sauna structure in Whistler, British Columbia. Named Ambassador Crescent, the 3,130-square foot (290-square metre) house is tucked into a steep hillside near the popular ski resort town, so the three-storey house and garage had to be embedded

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Tria Arquitetura renovates São Paulo penthouse with sculptural staircase

January 28, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

A large variety of art and collectible design pieces populate this penthouse apartment in São Paulo, designed by local studio Tria Arquitetura, which also includes a sculptural staircase. The renovation of the 960-square-metre Frederic Chopin Apartment was led by architect Marina Cardoso de Almeida of Tria Arquitetura, who reconfigured the layout to make the most

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Palma positions stucco-clad housing complex on Mexican coastline

January 16, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Off-white stucco walls and a rounded open-air staircase characterise the Chiripa housing complex in Mexico, which architecture studio Palma designed as a “hybrid” experiment merging residential and hotel-style living. Located on a steep site in the Mexican town of Sayulita along the Riviera Nayarit, Chiripa consists of two geometric volumes that are connected by stacked

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Dezeen’s top 10 staircases of 2022

December 17, 2022 Amy Peacock 0

As part of our review of 2022, we have selected 10 eye-catching staircases published on Dezeen this year, including stairs that turn, twist or double as seating. This year’s roundup of staircases features a children’s library in China with two intertwining timber stairs, a 25-metre-tall staircase in the Netherlands and a plywood spiral staircase in

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Julia van Beuningen adds spiral stair in Dutch barn conversion

November 29, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

A spiral staircase made from plywood is the showpiece of this thatched barn in Gelderland, the Netherlands, which architectural designer Julia van Beuningen has converted into a residence. Van Beuningen has overseen a complete transformation of the late 19th-century building, named Barn at the Ahof, turning it into a rental home with four bedrooms and

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