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Architectural Design Detail – Pivoting Wood Screens

January 30, 2019 Erin 0

Photography by Steve Tsai   When Paul Raff Design were tasked with the renovation and addition to an existing residence in Toronto, Canada, they decided to install a row of pivoting wood screens. Approaching the house, the 142 foot (43m) front facade is articulated with a long, low Algonquin limestone wall, with a taller volume […]

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RÉVELER / Collective Camposaz

January 30, 2019 Daniel Tapia 0

Camposaz is a wood self-construction workshop in 1:1 scale. The Collective is known for his collaborative and site-specific approach. Current workshops are open to architects, designers, carpenters between 18 and 35 years of age. Living in close contact for 10 days, they design and build wood installations, based on specific themes, aiming at enhancing the landscape.

BIG to connect oakland’s new ballpark with gondola lifts

January 30, 2019 macnadusa 0

in november 2018, bjarke ingels group (BIG) revealed plans to build a massive stadium complex for the oakland A’s baseball team. located at howard terminal, a waterfront location close to the center of downtown oakland, the new complex will include a series of high-rise structures that surround the park and in some cases directly overlook […]

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Virginia House / 2712 / asociados

January 30, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

The house is located in a social housing neighborhood from the early 1960´s. Originally conceived in prefabricated concrete panels and wooden trusses saddle roofs, the economic growth of this particular part of the city has generated continuous changes and improvements in the houses, being this specific construction one of the few still left in its original condition, without interventions of any kind.

Concrete and glass form Luciano Kruk’s Casa BLQ in Buenos Aires

January 30, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Casa BLQ by Luciano Kruk Arquitectos

Argentinian architect Luciano Kruk has created a family home that follows Mies van Der Rohe’s “conception of architecture as the expression of structure”. Casa BLQ is located in Nuevo Quilmes, a gated community in Buenos Aires with relatively small plots of land. Designed by local architect Luciano Kruk, the home sits on a flat, irregularly

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