House 1736
A house in the middle of the city.
The regulations allow the construction of a ground floor and two floors, with a considerable depth that perfectly meets the needs of the client’s program, but at the same time this very deep condition suggests that it could be a house with an interior area that is too dark and bad ventilated. The project begins with the challenge of qualifying the centre, prioritizing it and turning it into the best place in the house.
Converting the centre into a space much more connected with the outside, full of light and with the possibility of opening up and ventilating the whole house. A space in between that – although programmed and deeply architectural – lets in the natural intensity of the climate from the roof and divides the house in half, emptying it, making it more spacious and letting it breathe. A space that, due to its less domestic conditions of height, light and ventilation, manages to convey a feeling of being outside. The verticality of the central space and the zenith opening organize air and light. They make the invisible visible by sliding natural light to the bottom of the atrium while stimulating the speed of ventilation and the exit of hot air upwards to the exterior.
Barcelona, Spain.
By H Arquitectes
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Corsican convent
French studio Amelia Tavella Architectes renovated and extended a 15th-century convent on the island of Corsica, adding a perforated copper volume.
Built in 1480, the part-ruined Saint-Francois Convent is positioned on a hill overlooking a village and mountainous landscape.
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By Amelia Tavella Architectes
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Dibujo de la planta de las torres blancas
By Sáenz de Oiza
Sáenz de Oíza (Cáseda-Navarra 1918 - Madrid 2000) es uno de los arquitectos españoles más destacados del siglo XX, premio Nacional de Arquitectura (1945), Medalla de Oro de la Arquitectura (1989) y Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes (1993). Decía que había nacido en la Edad Media y vivió las vanguardias del siglo XX. Arquitecto, profesor, conferenciante, viajero infatigable, aficionado a la navegación a vela, los automóviles, las motos, la pintura, la fotografía, el cine, la lectura y los trabajos manuales, fue padre de siete hijos, y vivió junto a su mujer, María Felisa, una existencia plena y atareada.
Via metalocus
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QUINCHO TÍA TECHI
Paraguay
By Oficina de Arquitectura X
El acto creativo es inversamente proporcional al valor monetario de la oferta.
...Con el suelo arcilloso como materia prima en abundancia y la utilización de mano de obra no especializada y local en su fabricación , el material por excelencia que resolvería la ecuación sería el ladrillo macizo cerámico.
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Valley Towers
The building distinguishes itself in several ways: firstly, it combines offices, shops, catering, cultural facilities, and apartments in one building; secondly, unlike the closed-off buildings elsewhere in the Zuidas, the green valley that winds between the towers on the fourth and fifth floors is accessible to everyone via two external stone staircases. The building’s extensive planting, designed by landscape architect Piet Oudolf, hosts approximately 13,500 young plants, shrubs, and trees. As these mature over the coming years, they will give Valley an increasingly green appearance, making the building a manifesto for a greener city.
Valley is an attempt to bring a green and human dimension back to the inhospitable office environment of Amsterdam Zuidas. It is a building with multiple faces; on the outer edges of the building is a shell of smooth mirrored glass, which fits the context of the business district. Inside this shell, the building has a completely different, more inviting natural appearance, as if the glass block has crumbled away to reveal craggy rock faces inside replete with natural stone and greenery.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
by MVRDV
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CASA NAMORA
By David Bilo & Filipe Pina
GONÇALO, PORTUGAL
Situated in a natural shelter of a valley at the foot of the Serra da Estrela, close to the parish of Gonçalo, in a place also known locally by the name of Mora, this agricultural property has approximately 18ha of area, and is surrounded by a dense pine tree forest. (...)
The name NaMora has a double meaning in Portuguese. It refers to the location of the project, where “Na Mora” would translate into “In Mora” (Mora being the place where the property lies), but “namora” in Portuguese means literally “flirt” or “date”. (...)
Inside, we sought the neutrality given by the simplicity and purity of the materials and by the illusion of the absence of detail. The idea of interiority translates into openings towards landscapes, frames, and courtyards strategically located.
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Cañada House
by Escobedo Soliz
Mexico
The plot of the house is narrow and has a significant slope. In front of the property, there is a natural reserve that covers part of the ravine and the river.
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ROSER bathroom
This project consisted of modernizing a small bathroom.
Given its limited dimensions, a geometrical disign in white and black was chosen with a large mirror in one wall, which gives a feeling of greater space with its reflection.
I used white tile for the floor and for the walls, but their forms were different, and they were placed in such a way that they generated a geometric plot throughout the space. Creating a clean, orderly and harmonious space.
By Andrea Stinga
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Inside Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s Art-Filled Modernist Home Overlooking the Pacific Ocean
The superstar couple worked with AD100 designer Kelly Behun to craft their literal “Dreamland”
For more than a decade, Razor House, the stunning cliffside mansion by architectural designer Wallace E. Cunningham in La Jolla, California, has alternately been described as a “magnum opus,” an “architectural masterpiece,” and “America’s coolest home.” But since purchasing the modernist gem in 2019, Grammy Award–winning singer Alicia Keys and her husband, renowned music producer Kasseem Dean (a.k.a. Swizz Beatz), have preferred to call the home where they and their two sons, Egypt and Genesis, now reside “Dreamland.”
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BEFORE and AFTER
The objective of this renovation was simple and clear, to be able to have the fridge in the kitchen. So, to can achieve this, we throw out a wall and create a big open space. Also we use an L shape to have as much storage as we could in this few squares meters.
It is so importan to design a floor plan before make a renovation, to can find the best distribution and transform the spaces.
By Andrea Stinga / OMBU ARCHITECTURE
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Extensive-Intensive apartment
The project arises from the combination of two opposing types: the New York loft and the mountain log cabin. In order to achieve a more interrelated space, all the partitions are demolished, obtaining a wide and generous space, an undifferentiated space as one would have in a loft, an extensive space. But, in order to combat an excessive sensation of indetermination and lack of intimacy, to achieve a higher degree of domesticity, three oak wood cubes with the atmosphere of a mountain hut, are introduced in the space, containing the kitchen, a study area and a living area, configurating three different intense spaces where human activities can take place in conditions of seclusion, a condition that can be adjusted thanks to the hinged and sliding doors that further isolate these hut-spaces.
The indeterminate space of the loft is the negative of the determined space of the “cabins”, in such a way that a complex yet intimate and expansive, welcoming and spacious, domestic and indifferent space is obtained. Materiality is thought to reinforce this opposition: oak wood contrasts with an exterior in which both floors and walls are painted white. The aluminium windows have been restored and new adjustable blinds have been included to nuance the relationship with an exterior space characterised by the green treetops of the promenade.
By Nil Arquitectura
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