Green&Protein Podgorica Food and Drinks / Maden Group
Sustainability is a tough topic to avoid nowadays, and much more so in the world of interiors; thus, doing our part for the environment is critical.
Month: October 2022
quartzite ridges nestle pedro geraldes’ concrete control center overlooking portuguese dam
an environmentally conscious approach inserts the concrete volume discreetly into the existing natural landscape.
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Jardim das Bandeiras House / Nitsche Arquitetos
This project is the renovation of a 1960s ordinary house in Jardim das Bandeiras. With 460m² divided into three floors, the old house had already undergone another renovation a few years before, and the Nitsche team was the second to intervene in the property. The house is accommodated on a slope topography, and the access takes place in the middle floor. The leisure area stays at the lowest level, with a pool and garden, while the private areas are located at the top floor, with three bedrooms.
Before and After: 3 Homes That Optimize Indoor-Outdoor Flow (17 photos)
Outdoor rooms should ease the transition from the house out into the landscape. However, at these three homes, the existing outdoor spaces (including decks, patios, porches, pathways and gardens) seemed disconnected from the architecture of the houses…
Officeu Architects unites cork-clad housing blocks in Belgium with communal living areas
Two cork-clad apartment blocks flank a renovated 18th-century building at the De Sijs co-housing project in Leuven, Belgium, designed by local studio Officeu Architects. Located on a street corner at the edge of Leuven’s historic town centre, the project combines 12 apartments and shared facilities around a central garden. The project, which is shortlisted in
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Highlights From Maison & Objet 2022 (9 photos)
The Maison & Objet fair, held twice a year in Paris, has been a meeting place for professionals in lifestyle, interior decoration and design from around the world since 1995. The September 2022 show brought together more than 2,000 brands and near…
Ten maximalist interiors that are saturated with colours and patterns
Clashing colours, statement furnishings and mismatched patterns feature in this lookbook, which rounds up ten flamboyant interiors that embody the maximalist aesthetic. Maximalism is a style of art and design that rejects the rules of minimalism. Instead, exuberance is celebrated and anarchic use of pattern, colour and texture are encouraged. According to Claire Bingham, author
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Lido Beach House II / Resolution: 4 Architecture
Sitting on a flag lot at the corner of Lido Beach, this 2,625 sq. ft. prefab home serves as a summer house for a professor / writer and her family. The home attempts to establish a relationship to the surrounding dunes and beach while still being referential to its cozy neighborhood.
Monastery Accomodation Stella Maris / Toti Semerano
Stella Maris is a hypogeal intervention to create a meditative space in the project of a chapel and cloister within a residential complex designed for guests with disabilities and their families in a natural environment of great beauty, there is a thick and deep pine forest overlooking the Adriatic Sea. The land slowly begins to rise abandoning the darkness of the pine forest to then turn into a terrace that reaches the height of the canopy of pines suddenly revealing the sea in all its vastness. A large dune that transforms the clearing of space in the below garden which is articulated the built space. From here, it has been proceeded for excavation and subtraction, while climbing the presence of a vacuum is felt, a sudden suspension, which can not be accessed, but which is strongly present. Around this space the cloister – everything revolves around the sacred space – where it is only possible to access from the chapel, also barely perceptible from the outside, a crypt in which the natural light enters from a single cut, from the east, the morning light. It has been built in blocks of stone whose surface was machined with a particular milling, which makes disappear the joints, with the effect that seems obtained for excavation by an immense mass of stone.
Gregor Sailer’s Photographs Explore Architecture’s Political, Military, and Economic Implications
In a new show at Kunst Haus Wien in Vienna, the Austrian artist continues his investigation of architecture where few civilians tread.